Fort McMurray Re-entry

• Hundreds of Fort McMurray residents in areas hit hardest by wildfire finally allowed to go home

  It's been a challenging few months for Fort McMurray residents who have homes in the communities hardest-hit by May's wildfires but on Friday, many were told they could return home.

  Health

  Nov 4, 2016
  
• Fort McMurray wildfire: Residents can now rebuild in Abasand and Beacon Hill

  Nearly four months after a wildfire ripped through Fort McMurray, residents in two of the hardest hit neighbourhoods have been given the green light to rebuild.

  Consumer

  Sep 2, 2016
  
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• Fort McMurray wildfire: Longer-term temporary housing coming for displaced residents

  Sixty-five Fort McMurray families who lost their homes in the wildfire and who can afford to pay market rental rates will soon have longer-term temporary homes.

  Canada

  Sep 1, 2016
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• Fort McMurray wildfire: council takes steps to give tax breaks, ease development restrictions for residents

  Tuesday night, Wood Buffalo councillors took steps toward refunding a portion of property taxes for the time residents have been away as well as to ease restrictions on development permits.

  Money

  Aug 30, 2016
• Fort McMurray wildfire: residents of 2 restricted neighbourhoods to return home

  Residents from more than 400 homes in the Abasand and Beacon Hill neighbourhoods of Fort McMurray will be allowed to return home at the end of the month.

  Environment

  Aug 25, 2016
• Fort McMurray wildfire: ‘The beast’ finally under control

  The massive Fort McMurray wildfire which has been burning in northeastern Alberta for more than two months has been declared under control.

  Environment

  Jul 5, 2016
• ‘No decisions have been made’: Mayor Melissa Blake on rebuilding hard-hit Fort McMurray neighbourhoods

  Some residents in the Abasand, Beacon Hill and Waterways neighbourhoods lost everything in the wildfire. But questions remain around whether they will be able to rebuild in their communities.

  Environment

  Jun 8, 2016
• ‘The kids were having nightmares’: Some Fort McMurray residents won’t ever go back

  As many as 23,000 people have gone back to their homes in fire-ravaged Fort McMurray, but there are many who won't return.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2016
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• Quebec contractor arrested for breaking into safe in Fort McMurray neighbourhood

  Wood Buffalo RCMP have arrested a contractor from Quebec after officers received a report of a man breaking into a safe in Fort McMurray's Beacon Hill neighbourhood on Thursday.

  Crime

  Jun 3, 2016
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• Mental health services staff offer ‘shoulder’ to Fort McMurray residents in need of support

  As thousands of Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees begin to return home, the reality of the devastation is starting to set in and the municipality wants residents to know they are not alone.

  Health

  Jun 3, 2016