Maps show the extent of the wildfires spreading across the Northwest Territories in Canada, with the capital of the province asking all its residents to evacuate. Yellowknife, a city on the Great ...

Hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada’s Northwest Territories have prompted emergency declarations and the evacuation of the capital city of Yellowknife by road and air. One of the wildfires burning ...

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 ...

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories (AP) — Thousands of residents fled the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories ahead of an approaching wildfire Thursday, some driving hundreds of miles to safety ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) -The government of Canada's Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to wildfires that have largely destroyed one remote community and are also posing a risk ...

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 ...

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 ...