The Taltson hydro facility is finally back online — nearly two years after it was shut down for a big overhaul project — according to the Northwest Territories Power Corporation.

Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is an isolated mining town built on gold and now sustained by diamonds—an outpost of civilization surrounded by a vast, austere landscape ...

Summer temperatures range from 68°F–86 ... and the administrative center of the Northwest Territories until 1967. The town is a mix of mostly Chipewyan, Métis, and nonaboriginal people.

Bill Braden /The Canadian Press via AP Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as wildfires burned through the region. On Friday ...