A team from Alberta has been deployed to the Hay River area to lay fire retardant to help stop the fire from spreading, according to Northwest Territories Fire, a Canadian government agency.

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories — Residents in the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories were ordered to evacuate Wednesday night as wildfires neared the city of 20,000 people. People in ...

All 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories ... a total of more than 33 million acres — an area equivalent to nine Connecticuts. In addition to regular ...

While several areas got to experience what Northerners in the NWT see most nights, it was especially spectacular in the Northwest Territories where the show continued for days. "The Northwest ...

Officials in Northwest Territories said Friday evening that ... including the power to prevent people from traveling into dangerous areas and ensure access to accommodations for evacuees and ...

The area is so far that it stretches outside ... hot weather and frequent lightning storms. Northwest Territories 9,500 km sq; The Northwest Territories, like much of Canada, are experiencing ...

YELLOWKNIFE - Residents of the Northwest Territories' capital and some neighbouring communities have been ordered to evacuate the area by Friday because of an encroaching wildfire. and receive a ...

Some 20,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories, and the surrounding areas as the Behchoko/Yellowknife wildfire burns out ...

Over the past two weeks, the most destructive wildfires have occurred in the Northwest Territories. Last week alone, an area of more than 1.4 million acres (550,000 hectares) was burned.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter McCabe MONTREAL — The federal government, the Northwest Territories and the Délı̨nę Got'ı̨nę government signed off on a plan Saturday to create an Indigenous protected area ...