Residents of Swan Hills are allowed to go home, 10 days after a wildfire in the area forced the northern Alberta community's 1,300 residents to flee.

The residents of Swan Hills were told Monday to be ready to flee within an hour’s notice — and by suppertime, that order came.. An Alberta Emergency Alert issued at 6:16 p.m. said the fire was ...

SWAN HILLS — An evacuation order has been issued for a town in northern Alberta as a wildfire burns nearby. The town’s roughly 1,300 residents have been told to gather pets, important ...

Swan Hills is about 220 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. The fire, estimated at about 2,000 hectares, continues to burn out of control with high temperatures and strong winds in the forecast.

Fire crews are facing a challenging day as a wildfire encroaches on the town of Swan Hills in northern Alberta. An evacuation order was issued shortly after 6 p.m. Monday as the flames of the ...

Item 1 of 3 Smoke rises from wildfire SWF076, which has prompted a one-hour evacuation notice for the nearby town of Swan Hills, Alberta, Canada in an aerial photograph May 25, 2025.

The Swan Hills Treatment Centre is owned by Alberta Infrastructure and operated by a contractor — previously French multinational Suez until that company's merger with another French waste ...

The wildfires have already prompted a mandatory evacuation order for the town of Swan Hills, Canadian media reported. Per the Alberta authorities , 48% of the wildfires are under control, with ...

In 1985, the Alberta government put a stop to the importation of hazardous wastes into the province. Then in 1993, new legislation exempted hazardous oilfield wastes from being required to be sent to ...

This is a tale of two megaprojects -- one is still down in the dumps while the other seems to have been a good idea after all. The Swan Hills hazardous waste treatment plant in northern Alberta ...