Advocates say Yellowknife is better prepared to help its unhoused population evacuate if there is a wildfire evacuation like in 2023. “Everybody seems a little more confident than they were even a ...

When Jay Bulckaert answered his phone, he was standing in a fire break clearing brush in Kam Lake, just outside of Yellowknife, the capital city of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Just miles away, a ...

On the evening of Aug. 16, due to rapidly moving wildfires, an evacuation order was issued for the entire city of Yellowknife. Thousands of residents faced a long, stressful drive on the only road out ...