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Thousands of people in Eastern Canada are under evacuation orders and thousands more have been warned to be on high alert as ...
Nearly 20,000 residents of a community in western Canada were on standby Wednesday as a wildfire engulfed a mountain ...
Beach volleyball matches were postponed on Tuesday and for part of the day on Wednesday after an evacuation alert was issued ...
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia is facing pushback for what some have called "draconian" restrictions as it tries to ...
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She says emissions from things like transportation and heating have never triggered an air quality alert in Vermont, unlike ...
About 90 per cent of fires are being captured while they're still in what we would consider initial attack capabilities — around four hectares,” said BC Wildfire Service.
Nicole Smith is the chef de mission for Team N.B. She says it was great to see the team supporting Newfoundland. ( Elizabeth ...
With two out-of-control fires still burning in New Brunswick, and 14 other fires scattered on the provincial map, here are ...
"Some of the worst I've ever seen by the sheer size of the fires," Joe Meyer, an advanced fire training specialist with the Department of Natural Resources, recalled to WCCO. "Just to see the walls of ...
New federal funding will help a UBC Okanagan assistant professor deploy 150 fire-risk sensors across First Nations ...
A raging wildfire that has forced evacuations on south-central Vancouver Island has been burning at some of most severe ...
Canada is experiencing its second-worst wildfire season on record, with more than 700 active fires burning nationwide and 18.5 million acres of forest scorched so far this year. Only 2023 was worse, ...