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JASPER, ALTA. — Jasper National Park says wildfires in the area have grown by thousands of hectares and are set to expand further on Friday.

EDMONTON — Nestled along a meadow in Jasper’s backcountry, Charles Vantanajal and his family stood in awe of the dynamic, ever-changing cloud of thick, white wildfire smoke that rose near Oldhorn Mountain. “I've never seen anything like it,” he said.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gliding above her neighborhood in a cable car on a recent morning, Sonia Estefanía Palacios Díaz scanned a sea of blue and black water tanks, tubes and cables looking for rain harvesting systems.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s cultural city of Lahore saw record-high rainfall early Thursday, leaving at least three people dead, while flooding streets, disrupting traffic and affecting daily life, officials said, as the death toll from rain-r

LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire burning in Colorado’s heavily populated Front Range region has burned dozens of homes and outbuildings, while a second fire crept within a quarter-mile of evacuated homes near Denver on Thursday.

MORGAN, Vt.

VICTORIA — The B.C. government has warned of increasing fire risk this long weekend as Environment Canada issues heat advisories for several areas in the southern part of the province.

TOMS RIVER, N.J.

COHASSET, Calif. (AP) — While firefighters continued to battle California’s biggest wildfire of the year, Norm Rosene was spending 18-hour days behind fire lines with a different task –- saving the animals.

BUSBY, Alta. — A Buddhist retreat northwest of Edmonton was set to continue after a tent collapsed in fierce winds, killing one and injuring dozens, a day before the 10-day event was to begin.