Canadian fire crews on Thursday battled to prevent wildfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where all 20,000 residents are leaving by car and plane after an evacuation order was de… ...

More than 230 active wildfires are burning in Canada's Northwest Territories, including one outside the capital of Yellowknife, forcing 20,000 residents to flee.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rebecca Atly, the mayor of Yellowknife, Canada, which has issued an evacuation for all of the city's 20,000 residents due to wildfires.

Yellowknife residents leave the city on Highway 3, the only highway in or out of the community, after an evacuation order was given due to the proximity of wildfires in Yellowknife, Northwest ...

Yellowknife Mayor Rebecca Alty said the fire was not the only concern either. “With the heavy smoke that will be approaching we encourage all residents to evacuate as soon as possible,” she said.

The fire threatening Yellowknife was up to 402,000 acres (162,936 hectares) Thursday midday. It remained about 10 miles from the western boundary of the city and was not expected to move much ...

Officials instructed residents of the highest-risk areas of Yellowknife – Ingraham Trail, Dettah, Kam Lake, Grace Lake and Engle Business District – to evacuate immediately, while others had ...

Yellowknife is the biggest community and only city in the Northwest Territories, which stretches over 500,000 square miles of mostly forest and tundra up to the Arctic Ocean.

The residents of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories of Canada, were ordered out last month when a wildfire came near their city. By Ian Austen Reporting from Ottawa Twenty-two ...

At Yellowknife’s Sir John Franklin high school, there was a kilometre-long lineup of residents who don’t have vehicles queuing up for flights out. Some, including Edward Fraser, ...

Residents of Yellowknife are scrambling to leave the northern Canadian city by air and road ahead of a noon Friday evacuation deadline. Evacuation flights were leaving hourly and passengers were ...