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☆ I traveled beyond the Arctic Circle to see the Northern Lights. Here are 4 things to know before you go.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewIn February, I finally checked off one of my top bucket list items — seeing the aurora borealis, better known as the northern lights. I journeyed all the way to Finland's northernmost municipality, Utsjoki, about 280 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Location, location, locationWhile recent environmental phenomena have made the northern lights visible in places as far south as England and Denmark, the aurora borealis are best viewed within the Article Circle. AdvertisementThe vibrant colors that appear in photos are not what humans seeNot every color of the northern auroras is visible to the naked eye. "The lights are there, but if it is super cloudy — we can't, of course, see them," Tiina told me.

Persons: —, Tiina, Taylor Rains, Tiina Salonen, Utsjoki, it's, Nature Organizations: Service, Business, Finnair, Disney Locations: Utsjoki, New York, Ivalo, Finland, Helsinki, Lapland, Aurora, Norway, —, England, Denmark, Fairbanks , Alaska, Tromsø, Territories, Sweden, Ilulissat, Greenland, Antarctica, Kathmandu

FORT SMITH, Northwest Territories (AP) — The death toll from a small plane crash in Canada's Northwest Territories was six, authorities said Wednesday. The Northwest Territories coroner’s office said that four passengers and two crew members from Northwestern Air Lease were killed in Tuesday's crash, while a lone survivor was taken to a hospital and later airlifted to Yellowknife. The plane took off from the airport in Fort Smith, and then crashed near the banks of the Slave River. The town of Fort Smith is about 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles) northeast of Vancouver, British Columbia, near the border between Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The Canadian military responded when the plane lost contact shortly after taking off near Fort Smith.

Persons: Rio, Jakob Stausholm Organizations: Northwestern Air Lease, Rio Tinto Locations: SMITH, Northwest Territories, Canada's Northwest Territories, Rio Tinto, Territories, Yellowknife, Fort Smith, Rio, “, Vancouver , British Columbia, Alberta

☆ Six Dead in Rio Tinto Plane Crash in Canada's Northwest Territories
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

By Nia Williams(Reuters) - Six people were killed after a small plane carrying Rio Tinto workers crashed near Fort Smith in Canada's remote Northwest Territories (NWT), the NWT Coroner Service said on Wednesday. Four passengers and two North Western Air Lease crew members died in the crash, Chief Coroner Garth Eggenberger said in a statement, adding the plane had been travelling from Fort Smith en route to the Diavik Diamond Mine. There was one survivor who was treated at the Fort Smith Health Centre before being taken to hospital in the provincial capital Yellowknife. Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said in a statement on Tuesday night that the company was devastated by the crash. (Reporting by Nia Williams in British Columbia, Editing by Franklin Paul and Chizu Nomiyama)

Persons: Nia Williams, Garth Eggenberger, Jakob Stausholm, Franklin Paul, Chizu Organizations: Reuters, Tinto, Northwest Territories, NWT, Service, Western Air Lease, Fort Smith Health, Yellowknife . Rio Tinto Chief Locations: Fort Smith, Northwest, Yellowknife . Rio, British Columbia

☆ Entire town of Hay river in Canada ordered to leave as wildfires encroach
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Wildfires in Canada's Northwest Territories on Friday forced the evacuation of the entire town of Hay River, a community of about 4,000 people on the Great Slave Lake, authorities said. The government of the Northwest Territories ordered everyone in town, including essential workers, to go to the Hay River Merlyn Carter Airport and await further instructions. "Anyone who remains in Hay River is doing so at their own risk," the Northwest Territories government said in an alert posted at 3:23 p.m. local time on Friday. Canada is experiencing its worst wildfire season on record and in the past week more than 50,000 people, including the entire population of the Northwest Territories' capital Yellowknife, have been forced to flee their homes. Mail service to numerous communities in the Northwest Territories has also been impacted by the fires, the government said in a later alert.

Persons: Hay, Carter, Sharon Bernstein, Sandra Maler Organizations: Northwest, Northwest Territories, Thomson Locations: Canada's Northwest Territories, Hay, Northwest Territories, Canada, Northwest, Yellowknife, Sacramento , California

☆ Fire tourists, drone fliers told to stay clear of British Columbia blazes
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] People walk on a marina as smoke from wildfires hangs low in the Lake Okanagan city of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Chris Helgren Acquire Licensing RightsAug 19 (Reuters) - Wildfire tourists and drone operators who could be impeding the work of firefighters are being told by British Columbia officials that they are unwelcome while fast moving and unpredictable forest fires rage in the Canadian province. More than 35,000 people were under evacuation order by Saturday following British Columbia Premier David Eby's declaration of a state of emergency late on Friday, giving authorities more powers to tackle fire-related risks. Some 3,400 workers are involved in firefighting in British Columbia in western Canada. "Leaving Yellowknife, you're driving into the smoke," the 33-year old said of his 20-hour journey home to Calgary in Alberta province.

Persons: Chris Helgren, British Columbia Premier David Eby's, Bruce Ralston, Eby, Ralston, Ma, that's, Brent Saulnier, I've, Denny Thomas, George Sargent, Grant McCool Organizations: REUTERS, British Columbia, British Columbia Premier, Emergency Management, Climate Readiness, Thomson Locations: Lake Okanagan, Kelowna , British Columbia, Canada, British, Canadian, British Columbia, Canada's Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Calgary, Alberta, Toronto

☆ Wildfires prompt evacuation order for residents in capital of Canada's Northwest Territories
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Christian Nunley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWildfires prompt evacuation order for residents in capital of Canada's Northwest TerritoriesWildfires in Canada have prompted thousands in the Northwest Territories to evacuate. The Northwest Territories' government placed a level 3 evacuation order for Yellowknife, N'dilo, Dettah and Ingraham Trail. This comes as Canada grapples with a record amount of acreage burned by wildfires this year.

Organizations: Northwest Locations: Canada's, Territories, Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, N'dilo, Dettah, Ingraham

Companies City of Yellowknife FollowYELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, Aug 16 (Reuters) - A huge wildfire in northern Canada is creeping closer to the capital of the Northwest Territories and could reach the outskirts of Yellowknife by the weekend unless rain comes, the territorial government said on Wednesday. Canada is enduring its worst-ever wildfire season with more than 1,000 active fires burning across the country, including 230 in the Northwest Territories. Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane said some Yellowknife residents were preemptively leaving the city but urged people to remain calm and warned that highways could close suddenly because of the fire risk. The Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency late Tuesday and the Canadian military has been mobilized to help tackle the blazes and airlift some residents to safety. Cochrane spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the wildfire situation on Wednesday afternoon.

Persons: Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane, I've, Cochrane, Justin Trudeau, Trudeau, Ismail Shakil, David Ljunggren, Sandra Maler, Chris Reese, Diane Craft Organizations: Northwest, Northwest Territories Premier, City, Northwest Territories, Canadian, Thomson Locations: Yellowknife, YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, Canada, Enterprise, Alberta, Sunday, City, Western Canada, Pacific, British Columbia, Cathedral, Keremeos, Ottawa

People walk to a Royal Canadian Air Force transport plane while being evacuated from an approaching wildfire in Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada August 14, 2023. “We are working closely with the Government of the Northwest Territories to ensure communities have the support they need," Canadian federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan said in a statement. Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories and sits 450 km (280 miles) south of the Arctic Circle. Over the weekend, residents of most communities in the South Slave region of the Northwest Territories, situated along the Alberta border, were ordered to evacuate. Northwest Territories has so far had 265 wildfires this year, much higher than its 10-year annual average of 185.

Persons: Harjit Sajjan, Rebecca Alty, Ismail Shakil, Jyoti Narayan, David Ljunggren, Alistair Bell Organizations: Royal Canadian Air Force, Canadian Forces, REUTERS Acquire, Canada's Northwest Territories, Government of, Emergency Preparedness, Northwest, CBC News, Thomson Locations: Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada, City, Yellowknife Follow OTTAWA, Yellowknife, Alberta, Enterprise, Territories, Ottawa, Bengaluru

☆ Canada appoints First Nations member to Bank of Canada board
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

OTTAWA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The Canadian government filled three Bank of Canada board vacancies on Thursday with finance veterans including Ernie Daniels, likely the first First Nations member on the central bank's board, a bank spokesperson said. The Bank of Canada's board selects its governor and provides general oversight of the management and administration of the institution. Daniels and the other two appointees - David Dominy and Shelley Williams - "bring many years of accounting, capital markets, and financial management from across industries and sectors," Canada's finance ministry said in a statement. Daniels, who is from the Salt River First Nation in Canada's Northwest Territories, has over 35 years of senior financial management experience and has been chief executive of First Nations Finance Authority, a financial non-profit, since 2012. "To the best of our knowledge" Daniels is the first board member to hail from a First Nation in the bank's almost 90-year history, a spokesperson said.

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