This is a joint news release between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories.

Residents of Yellowknife, home to about 20,000, were ordered to evacuate their homes by noon on Friday Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at ...

A wildfire was moving closer the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories Friday as residents fled, rushing to beat a noon deadline to evacuate the city of 20,000. Half of the population in the ...

With a waterfall twice the height of Niagara, the longest remote hiking trail in North America, and a population of just 44,000, the Northwest Territories is a land of wild extremes. Most travelers ...

The infernos in the Northwest Territories are among more than 1,000 fires burning across Canada as the country endures its worst fire season on record. Smoke from the fires has drifted into the US, ...

Firefighters worked to keep open the only route out of the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as a wildfire moved closer to the city of 20,000 and residents rushed to beat a noon Friday ...

Ahmad Mukhtar is a producer for CBS News based in Toronto, Canada. He covers politics, conflict and terrorism, with a focus on news from Canada and his home nation of Afghanistan, which he left ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. More than 230 fires are burning in the Northwest Territories of Canada, scorching ...

The death toll from a small plane crash in Canada's Northwest Territories was six, authorities said Wednesday. The plane was carrying employees from the Rio Tinto mining company. The Northwest ...

Jan 23 (Reuters) - A small airliner registered to Northwestern Air Lease crashed near Forth Smith in Canada's remote Northwest Territories on Tuesday, killing some people on board. There were no ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Residents heeded warnings to evacuate the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as a large wildfire burned just miles outside the city of 20,000 Friday, while ...

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories — Residents in the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories were rushing to beat a noon Friday deadline to evacuate their homes as one of hundreds of wildfires ...