The threat from a wildfire near Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing on Wednesday, a day after it forced thousands of residents to evacuate and stirred memories ...

For years, Indigenous communities living near Canada’s oil sands have worried about the health impacts of the cloud of air pollution rising from the vast industrial mining complex. A recent ...

This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 1963, when Jim Boucher was seven, he was out working the trap­line with his grandfather a few miles south of ...

Jacobs Engineering received a contract from Suncor Energy Services to proceed with engineering design work for Stage 3 of Suncor's Firebag in situ oil sands program near Fort McMurray, Alberta ...

An Alberta company failed to properly accommodate a worker’s disability by unnecessarily delaying her return to work ...

Joint-venture partners OPTI Canada and Nexen have marked the grand opening of the Long Lake Project. Joint-venture partners OPTI Canada and Nexen have marked the grand opening of the Long Lake ...

Bob Kirtley has traded options and stocks since 1980. Bob Kirtley spent many years working on Oil projects including some in Alberta, such as the tar sands installations in Fort McMurray.