Ride bus for 75 cents on ozone alert days

On summer days when the ozone levels are high in Kansas City, bus riders get a reduced fare. The annual program began on June 1. The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) again this year offers a 75 cent fare when an ozone alert ...

First ozone alert issued for Thursday

Bad news for air quality. The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) Air Quality Program has issued an orange Ozone Alert for Thursday, July 18. This alert indicates that an unhealthy level of ground-level ozone, also known as smog, is expected tomorrow in ...

Ozone season has begun

As the temperatures go up, so do ozone levels in Midtown. That means the Mid-America Regional Council’s (MARC) daily SkyCast is back. This week, the MARC Air Quality Program issued the first SkyCast air quality forecast for 2013, marking ...