Beyond Local

“Right now we’re just really excited to have people interested in it."

Yellowknife, with 20,000 residents, is one of many communities in the N.W.T. grappling with more than 200 wildfires that have already burned an area four times the size of Prince Edward Island.

Visiting the famed Gold Rush town for the first time, I hoped to find what attracts seniors to live just 241 km south of the Arctic Circle.

Crops rated good to excellent remained well below the overall average in Alberta.

PHOTOS: Provincial mountain bike festival takes over Canmore Nordic Centre

The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts in July came in at 254,966 units compared with 283,498 in June.

In celebration of India’s independence, members of the South Asian community in Airdrie will be hoisting their national flag.

FORT SMITH, NWT — Firefighters will be watching the skies over the next couple of days hoping for help from Mother Nature as wildfires along the Alberta-Northwest Territories boundary continue to force evacuations.

“Bears are always hungry and following their noses, and when a bear gets a taste of human food, whether it’s actual food or garbage or fruit from trees, they associate that food source with people,"

The flow on the Elbow is the lowest it's been since around 2000 and the Bow River is the lowest it's been since 1911.