Firefighters are battling a wildfire in Fort McMurray that prompted the closure of a section of highway. Alberta Wildfire says a wildfire designated as "MMD001" started earlier Friday in Fort McMurray ...

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An analysis in the months after the 2016 wildfire that forced more than 88,000 people to flee Fort McMurray found a new east-west highway was estimated to cost at least $1.5 billion.

A major project is in the works for Alberta’s north that would connect Fort McMurray to the rest of the region, including Grande Prairie. CBC’s Fort McMurray reporter Dennis Kovtun and CBC’s Grande ...

CBC’s Fort McMurray reporter Dennis Kovtun and CBC’s Grande Prairie reporter Catherine Garrett tell us the latest about the Highway 686 expansion project. More for You.

Roughly 1,000 school support workers have hit picket lines in Fort McMurray, and union officials say the strike could go Alberta-wide by the spring if the province doesn’t act.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Striking school support workers at Fort McMurray Public and Catholic school districts will expand their job action starting Tuesday.The strike which began ...

Fort McMurray sits at the junction of two rivers, which makes it susceptible to ice jam floods in the spring. It experienced a large ice jam flood in 2020. Now, Fort McMurray has extensive ...

Schools across Fort McMurray could be closed on Tuesday, September 17th at 6 a.m. as education workers in both Public and Catholic school divisions in ...

Fort McMurray wild fire evacuee Tiffany Wentzell pets Ricky, one of her family's two cats, as she waits for help outside an evacuee centre set up at the Clareview Recreation Centre in Edmonton ...

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 ...

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.