An Environment Canada air quality warning is in effect for much of Manitoba, including Island Lake, with 27 active fires still burning in the province as of Thursday afternoon.

Snow Lake has also been hosting quite a few families who were evacuated from Flin Flon, said Scott, who estimated there were about 1,700 people in town before the evacuation alert was issued.

In response to the devastating wildfires impacting communities across northern Manitoba, three leading mining companies that ...

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“Some of the biggest markets in Canada (are) open for business, and Manitoba is going to be able to cash in and do our part to build up Team Canada,” Kinew told a crowd of roughly 500 people.

Around 250 people have been flown out of the remote Island Lake region in northeastern Manitoba, as all four member First Nations have ordered partial evacuations due to wildfire smoke.

Canada faces a severe wildfire season, with millions of hectares already burned and forecasts predicting continued high risks due to climate change-induced dry conditions. Evacuations have displaced ...

But as Manitoba struggles to find lodgings, hundreds of evacuees are being sent more than 2,000 kilometres away to Niagara Falls, Ont. – including from Pimicikamak, Mathias Colomb Cree Nation ...