Air quality alerts are impacting parts of California and North Carolina, with officials from the National Weather Service (NWS) warning residents to “remain indoors” as dangerous pollution levels rise from wildfire smoke and ozone buildup.

A large wildfire has burned nearly a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park — an area home to dozens of rare plants and animals, including some found nowhere else in ...

The blaze, called the Tusil fire, broke out around 1:15 p.m. near Tusil Road on the Campo Reservation, just north of I-8 and quickly spread in a south and southwest direction, Cal Fire officials said.