NWT research station still standing as wildfire threat recedes
A wildfire that threatened the Dehcho’s Scotty Creek Research Station last week hasn’t yet arrived. It's looking likely the facility will emerge intact.
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Cabin destroyed as ‘extraordinary’ NWT wildfire season continues
A cabin northeast of Fort Smith was destroyed as winds whipped up a wildfire and the NWT's unusually prolonged 2022 summer fire season lingered into October.
Wildfire moves closer to research station, teams brace for worst
"The next two days are going to be really critical." The fate of an NWT research station hangs in the balance as a wildfire continues to creep closer.
Rush to protect NWT research station from approaching wildfire
A wildfire is edging closer to the Scotty Creek Research Station, 50 km south of Fort Simpson. Researchers and firefighters are building defences.
NWT communities given $20M to combat risk posed by wildfires
NWT communities will receive $20 million to build fire breaks and fund other ways of reducing wildfire risk, work some said would have otherwise taken decades.
Smoke warning for Fort Smith, Yellowknife and Fort Resolution
An air quality advisory was issued for Fort Smith then extended to Yellowknife and Fort Resolution after high winds fanned the flames of NWT wildfires.
Rain helps battle to contain wildfire south of Wrigley
Rain over the past day has helped fire crews working to contain a wildfire burning south of Wrigley, the NWT government says.
More than half of NWT communities now under smoke advisories
Smoke advisories are now in place for 18 of the NWT's 33 communities. This is the NWT's busiest wildfire summer in recent years, though not comparable to 2014.
‘Difficult conditions’ persist in fight against fire south of Wrigley
Smoke is complicating the response to a wildfire outside Wrigley, where initial differences over an evacuation plan have now been resolved, leaders said.
Wildfires near Fort Smith and Wrigley tax NWT crews
A wildfire near Wrigley doesn't threaten the community but "that may change" in hot, dry conditions, the GNWT said. A fire near Fort Smith grew significantly.
Wildfire triggers evacuation of Taltson dam area
A 9,000-hectare wildfire northeast of Fort Smith has triggered a limited evacuation of people around the nearby Taltson hydro dam.
Nasa and German scientists gather to study NWT wildfires
"Studying the Earth from leaf to orbit." Researchers held an open house in Yellowknife to explain their work on wildfires, on the ground and in the air.