Government and Alberta Wildfire officials thanked Mother Nature for the recent rain in their weekly update Thursday, but noted it wasn't enough to undo months of drought in the driest parts of the province.
Dozens of inmates were transported from a northern Alberta correctional centre earlier this week because of a wildfire.
Some Alberta municipalities say the province has been slow to react to calls for more firefighting support and a long-term plan to better protect communities outside the Forest Protection Area (FPA).
There is still bad blood in one county west of Edmonton over the municipality’s response to the historic 2023 Alberta wildfires.
There are 63 wildfires burning in Alberta's forest protection area as of Wednesday morning and seven mutual aid fires, including one in the Municipal District of Peace.
People living near a wildfire burning about 15 kilometres southwest of Peace River are being told to evacuate their homes.
People living in Edson were forced to flee their homes twice last spring.
A wildfire alert for Lac Ste Anne County that was issued on Monday afternoon has ended.
A section of Highway 2 near Slave Lake was closed Sunday due to a "rapidly progressing" forest fire in the nearby Canyon Creek.
RCMP say drones are interfering with wildfire operations near the small northern Alberta community of Saprae Creek Estates, southeast of Fort McMurray.
A large, rapidly spreading brush fire continued to burn near Clairmont Sunday.
TC Energy Corp. says it has reduced the pressure on a segment of its NGTL pipeline system in Alberta while an investigation continues into the cause of a rupture that occurred earlier this week.
According to the minister of forestry and parks, Alberta is experiencing "heightened wildfire risk" this year, with 148 fires already extinguished and more still burning.
