This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 1963, when Jim Boucher was seven, he was out working the trap­line with his grandfather a few miles south of ...

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Some 6,000 people have already evacuated from Fort McMurray as the wildfire approached and grew in size. Authorities hope favorable weather conditions can turn the blaze away from the town ...

Favorable winds are expected to push an “out of control” wildfire away from Canada’s oil sand hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, officials said Wednesday, a day after thousands were evacuated.

Three brothers from Bavaria settled in Edmonton in the 1950s with their grocery store for German delicacies.Oil production near Fort McMurray began in 1967 with bucket wheel excavators from Germany.

Some experts foresee dire consequences: shortages, price spikes, economic disruption, and a desperate push to wrest oil from "unconventional" sources such as tar sands, oil shale, or coal.

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Warning: This article discusses sexual and child abuse. An Alberta judge sentenced a Fort McMurray, Alta., woman to 10 years in prison on Wednesday, after she was convicted of child pornography ...

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