Is This Polar Bear Town Canada’s Key to the Arctic?

The tiny town of Churchill has two of Canada’s largest pieces of Arctic infrastructure, but years of neglect have left them ...
People

Thousands Evacuating Capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as Over 200 Wildfires Threaten Region

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 ...
New York Post

Residents flee, airlifts begin as wildfire approaches capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories — Residents of the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories began fleeing an approaching wildfire Thursday in long convoys while air evacuations were underway for ...
NBC Connecticut

Thousands scramble to evacuate in Canada as unprecedented wave of wildfires rage

The capital of Canada's Northwest Territories was virtually deserted after nearly all the residents of the city of just over 20,000 fled as a huge wildfire burned nearby. To the south, in British ...
NPR

Wildfires prompt evacuations of capital of Canada's Northwest Territories

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 the ...
Southeast Missourian

Residents flee as wildfire approaches capital of Canada's Northwest Territories

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories -- Thousands of residents fled the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories ahead of an approaching wildfire Thursday, some driving hundreds of miles to safety and ...