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.

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… ...

The evacuation of the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife is continuing as wildfires bear down. As of Friday, the fire was 15km (9 miles) north-west of the city, which is home to some 20,000 people ...

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 ...

If smoke limits visibility, those leaving Yellowknife by highway will be escorted through the active fire zone. More than 200 wildfires have already burned a widespread area of the Northwest ...

Nearly all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories, have evacuated, while thousands more in neighboring British Columbia have fled, too.

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 ...

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 ...

The City of Yellowknife is in the early stages of a $6.7 million plan to grow its solid waste management facility — a plan one Yellowknife resident says is a step toward the planet becoming "one ...