An air quality alert for central and southern Minnesota continues from Wednesday into Thursday until 11 p.m. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says the area under the alert starts around Alexandria,

The air quality alert may need to be extended into Monday if an additional batch of heavy smoke materializes from Manitoba and Saskatchewan wildfires and is transported into and across

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued an air quality alert for much of state through Wednesday as smoke from wildfires burning in Canada settled across the upper Midwest.