Budget 2025 has $160 million for wildfire personnel, equipment, training and contracts, but the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees worries funds will focus on gear, not people.

Fireguards, a common fire suppression technique, are strategically placed barriers that aim to stop — or at least hinder — wildfire from spreading. Often, heavy equipment is used to remove vegetation ...

A fireguard was built on the northwestern edge of the perimeter. A request for proposal is out now for this section of the reclamation job. The total area of reclamation is estimated at around 160 ...

Surrounded by coniferous trees, Hinton is situated in a wildfire-prone region of Alberta and took in fire evacuees from both Jasper in 2024 and Edson in 2023.

The provincial government is requesting Hinton and other communities in Alberta undertake more wildfire mitigation work in the wake of the Jasper wildfire last summer. Forestry and Parks Minister ...

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) addressed concerns regarding the transparency of its bus shelter procurement initiative amidst criticisms that they are as much use as a chocolate fireguard ...

He goes to the EU with his begging bowl out, negotiating from a position of unbelievable weakness. The EU leaders even invited Starmer to a leaders summit in the same building where Ted Heath signed ...

Alberta firefighters are setting up a community fireguard to protect the Bow Valley as wildfire season approaches. At a news conference in Canmore on Monday, Todd Loewen, Minister of Forestry and ...

It's part of the province's Community Fireguard Program which, in its second year of operation, is being hailed by some as an important strategy to help protect areas like Canmore and Banff ...