The 2024 wildfire season has begun, and it's shaping up to follow last year's unprecedented destruction in kind, with thousands of square kilometres already consumed.
City-sized blazes are bearing down on isolated communities across Western Canada as responders and residents alike brace for the worst.
"The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality has issued an Evacuation Order for the town of Fort Nelson and area, and the Fort Nelson First Nation, due to wildfire," reads a provincial alert updated Sunday. "This wildfire is a threat to life & safety. Impacted residents must evacuate now." Nearby cottage subdivisions and the community of Cranberry Portage, Man., have been affected as evacuation orders bring hundreds out of the path of danger.
U.S. Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift A burgeoning track star says his dream of going to the Olympics is being derailed by a deportation order after Immigration officials rejected his family’s claim for asylumA consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relationships with American Indian tribes has filed a lawsuit accusing the team, its charity foundation and its CEO of fraud, breach of contract and sexual harassment.
Homicide investigators have been called in after two men were found dead inside a home in Surrey's Newton neighbourhood Wednesday night.Premier David Eby delivered an election-style speech to his New Democrat caucus, warning of the potential merger between the opposition BC United and B.C. Conservative parties, saying the fall election is shaping up to be the "starkest choice in a generation.
The MWF-017 wildfire burning southwest of Fort McMurray is the only wildfire classified as out of control in Alberta, provincials announced in an update on Thursday morning.Seasonal predictions for fire weather severity by Natural Resources Canada have the Maritimes forecast as near average for the next three months.Veteran TSN sportscaster Darren Dutchyshen has died
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