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Authorities evacuate over 6,000 people as wildfires approach the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
2024-05-15

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces new restrictions that will suspend indoor group fitness programs, team sports, group performance activities, limit the number of people who attend weddings and funeral services to 50 and reduce operating hours for restaurants, bars and pubs in the areas that are under enhanced status from tomorrow until November 27. It comes after Alberta reports a record 860 cases.
2020-11-12

A boy discovers a fossilized hadrosaur skeleton at the Horseshoe Canyon in Alberta, Canada, dating back 69 million years.
2020-10-15

Residents return to Fort McMurray for the first time since May 1. A couple thousand firefighters, from as far away as South Africa, continue to battle the 5,800 square kilometer (3,603 square mile) Canadian blaze that has crossed the Alberta border into Saskatchewan.
2016-06-1

A mandatory evacuation order for more than 29,000 people remains in place for the Canadian town of Fort McMurray, Alberta, which is threatened by an out of control wildfire.
2016-05-3

Voters in the Canadian province of Alberta go to the polls for a general election with the incumbent Progressive Conservatives being reelected.
2012-04-23

Alison Redford of the Progressive Conservatives is sworn in as the first female Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta.
2011-10-7

The Government of Somalia claims to have killed a Canadian member of the al-Shabab terrorist organization.
2011-06-9

More than a thousand people are evacuated from the Canadian town of Slave Lake, Alberta, due to a wildfire.
2011-05-15

Forest fires flare up in the southern Russian regions of Volgograd and Saratov, killing two people and burning down 500 buildings.
2010-09-3