Fort McMurray has unveiled a new park to commemorate the resilience of the community after the 2016 wildfire.The park, called Reflections Lookout, as well as a playground named after Emily Ryan, is ...

Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction is the biggest industry in the Fort McMurray region employing 13,200 people, or 32% of the local working population, according to a 2021 labor study by ...

A wildfire near Canada’s largest oil producing region prompted the evacuation of about 6,600 people from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Several thousand other residents of the city were told to ...

Fort McMurray has a population of about 68,000, and a wildfire there in 2016 destroyed 2,400 homes. “It’s very important for me to know that this fire activity is very different than the 2016 ...

Roads out of Fort McMurray were crammed with evacuating cars Tuesday as an out-of-control 51,000-acre wildfire crept toward the city’s edge. The approaching flames conjured up terrifying ...

In a notice late on Friday, the Alberta government said the wildfire danger is "extreme" in the Fort McMurray Forest Area and out of control at 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) in size. Sign up here.

At the time of its fire, 88,000 people lived in Fort McMurray. Unlike Fort McMurray, a place in Alberta’s oil sands region that few Canadians visit, Jasper attracts 2.5 million park visitors a year.