Northwest Territories

A national climate disaster insurance program for high-risk properties and for damage not covered by private insurance would help protect many families.

Defence Minister Bill Blair says another company of soldiers is being deployed to Hay River in the Northwest Territories, which has been evacuated for more than a week due to a threatening wildfire nearby.

Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane was a social worker before entering politics, so when the territory ordered everyone in its capital to leave last week due to encroaching wildfires, she said she checked to make sure homeless people weren't forgotten.

Officials in the Northwest Territories are urging thousands of residents remaining in its capital to leave by noon today before a nearby wildfire could cut off access.

Residents of the Northwest Territories are feeling the effect of the news vacuum on Facebook as they flee communities that are under threat by wildfires.

Residents of the capital of the Northwest Territories and two neighbouring First Nation communities have been ordered to evacuate the area by Friday, August 18, 2023, because of an encroaching wildfire.

For the second time this year, K’atl’odeeche First Nation in the Northwest Territories was part of the evacuation alert following an out-of-control wildfire fuelled by strong winds and dry conditions over the weekend.

Residents of a second town near the Alberta-Northwest Territories boundary were ordered to evacuate to safety on Sunday, August 13, 2023, evening due to encroaching wildfires, with a new fire meaning the only route out for one of the communities was by air.

All three territories signed on to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's health funding offer on Thursday, July 6, 2023, leaving Quebec as the only holdout on the new accords.

As wildfire approached a neighbouring community, April Glaicar grabbed her camera. What she witnessed was “alarming.”

Weather maps hang on the walls and precipitation reports flash across screens in the Winnipeg office where major decisions about Canada’s battle against an unprecedented wildfire season are made.

Emotions ran high in a Yukon First Nations community on Monday as officials announced the search for unmarked graves would begin at a former residential school site.

Nine fires are actively burning in the N.W.T., including an out-of-control wildfire about 32 square kilometres in size on the K'atl'odeeche First Nation that is believed to have been human-caused. 

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