The Latest Breaking News from Quebec

Over the past six weeks, massive wildfires have spread across Canada, burning more than 3.3 million hectares of land - an area 12 times the 10-year average for this time of year

French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to send about a hundred firefighters to Quebec, Canada, to help in the effort to battle hundreds of uncontrolled forest fires that have forced evacuations and sent a blanket of smoky air across the United States’ east coast.

With weather systems expected to hardly budge, the smoky blanket billowing across the U.S. and Canada from wildfires in Quebec and Nova Scotia should persist into Thursday and possibly the weekend

As some of the US's biggest cities choked in a haze of bushfire smoke, sparking health fears and alarm, social media has also lit up.

Wildfires in Quebec and Nova Scotia have caused smoke to drift across to densely populated areas on the eastern side of the US with an orange haze descending over New York City and Washington DC

High-risk air quality warnings issued for millions across North America as smoke from blazes blanket cities

Wildfires have set millions of acres ablaze across Canada so far in 2023 as the air quality affected the metropolitan areas.

An ambitious push to decarbonize Canada’s grid and the nation’s growing demand for green energy is causing concerns in the U.S. that Canadian hydro supplies aren’t as plentiful as they used to be

Northern Quebec’s largest town was being evacuated while another that had been threatened by wildfires lifted an evacuation order Tuesday, as authorities turned their attention to communities in the northern and northwestern parts of the province where firefighters worked to beat back threats from out-of-control blazes

Air quality across the northeastern U.S. and Canada has plummeted to unhealthy levels.

Officials warn of high levels of air pollution as hundreds of blazes burn across Canada in record start to fire season.