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Yellowknife, with 20,000 residents, is one of many communities in the N.W.T. grappling with more than 200 wildfires that have already burned an area four times the size of Prince Edward Island.

Province pauses approval of new renewable electricity generation projects for six months

Visiting the famed Gold Rush town for the first time, I hoped to find what attracts seniors to live just 241 km south of the Arctic Circle.

Crops rated good to excellent remained well below the overall average in Alberta.

The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in July came in at 254,966 units compared with 283,498 in June.

In celebration of India’s independence, members of the South Asian community in Airdrie will be hoisting their national flag.

FORT SMITH, NWT — Firefighters will be watching the skies over the next couple of days hoping for help from Mother Nature as wildfires along the Alberta-Northwest Territories boundary continue to force evacuations.

The flow on the Elbow is the lowest it's been since around 2000 and the Bow River is the lowest it's been since 1911.

St. Albert is the designated reception centre in Alberta for fire evacuees