‘Very tough’: Northern Sask. evacuees adapt to city life as wildfires threaten their communities

Beauval, Sask., nearly surrounded as massive wildfire grows

The mayor of Beauval, Sask., says the village is nearly surrounded by wildfire, as the massive Muskeg fire continues to burn out of control on three sides of the northern community.

'These are devastating': Dispatches on the Saskatchewan wildfire situation

Dispatches on the wildfire situation in northern Saskatchewan from Leader-Post and Star Phoenix journalists.

Student launches game-changing tracker after being forced to evacuate home by wildfire: 'I wish I didn't have to make this project’

When university student Jenna Taylor was forced to evacuate her home in Canada amid a devastating wildfire outbreak in late May, she made the most of the situation by creating a wildfire map to help communities track their spread.  As The Winnipeg Sun reported, Taylor is a geography student at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, and the cartography and map-making classes she takes as part of her degree provided her with the nec…

‘Very tough’: Northern Sask. evacuees adapt to city life as wildfires threaten their communities

Two days ago, Wendy Eldridge didn’t know if she would have a community to go back to. Flames breached the northern Saskatchewan village of Beauval on Thursday night, shortly after the last bus of evacuees left.

One building lost but town protected as Beauval continues to fight wildfires

With the community evacuated and surrounded by fire, firefighting crews continue to protect the community. In ...