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Essential workers allowed to return to Labrador City as wildfire eases
FILE PHOTO: Smoke from an encroaching wildfire is seen over homes after an evacuation was ordered in the eastern Canadian community of Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada July 12, 2024 in a drone photograph. REUTERS/Josh Bingle/File Photo
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Newfoundland Premier says crew members on missing fishing boat found alive
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey speaks to reporters at the Council of the Federation meetings in Halifax on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. The crew manning a missing Newfoundland fishing vessel has been located. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey published a tweet Friday night saying the entire province is "relieved" to learn the crew aboard the Elite Navigator has been found alive. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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B.C. premier says working with Ottawa can feel like ‘beating our head against a wall’
A migrant takes a photo of a new border sign before deciding to cross into Canada at Roxham Road, an unofficial crossing point from New York State to Quebec for asylum seekers, in Champlain, New York, U.S. March 25, 2023. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
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Firefighter hopes rain will be sufficient to dampen western Labrador wildfire
Smoke from a wildfire is shown in Labrador City, N.L., in a Friday, July 12, 2024, handout photo. Residents of Labrador City were ordered to evacuate Friday night, as a nearby wildfire crept closer to the town. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Janelle Nippard **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Premier says weather cooperating as firefighters attack Labrador City blaze
The Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is set to provide an update this afternoon on the Labrador fire that exploded into an inferno and forced an evacuation after a week of being considered under control. Smoke from a wildfire is shown in Labrador City, N.L. in a Friday, July 12, 2024 handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Janelle Nippard **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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Northern Quebec town of Fermont preparing for possible evacuation as Labrador City wildfire spreads
Forestry officials have asked everyone in Labrador City to leave as a nearby wildfire creeps closer.A Quebec water bomber, shown here in a handout photo from Thursday, June 20, 2024, sits at the Happy Valley-Goose Bay airport, ready to help battle wildfires in central Labrador. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Hunter Wilson *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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N.L. Premier Andrew Furey takes aim at Ottawa over reopened commercial northern cod fishery
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey speaks during a news conference in Vancouver, on Thursday, June 13, 2024. Furey is once again opposing a decision made by his federal counterparts, this time about the re-opening of the province's commercial northern cod fishery.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Threat from Churchill Falls wildfire eases, officials say ‘promising’ forecast ahead
Wildfire photos taken by Churchill Falls evacuee Robert Dawe as he was evacuating the town with his mother and adult children. When works for Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro and also owns his own mechanic shop in the town He is watching closely from Happy Valley Goose Bay, where hundreds have been evacuated.