(KPIX 5) -- People have been lining up at hardware stores and other locations in the Bay Area to snap up face masks to minimize their intake of unhealthy air. But the N95 respirators, so called ...

Guess what’s happening with Canadian wildfire smoke now covering a lot of the Eastern U.S., triggering bad air-quality warnings. Many more people are wearing N95 face masks again. After all, such ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO — The City of Sacramento is ...

A new study finds that industry-certified particle masks are most effective at protecting people from volcanic ash, while commonly used surgical masks offer less protection. Industry-certified ...

As case numbers of new, highly infectious strains of COVID-19 continue to increase across the country, face masks are more important than ever. The good news is that masks work well to keep the virus ...