Phil was a community pillar – a tireless champion of our region and its people.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announced the province would be banning all travel and activity in all wooded areas as of 4 p.The area under mandatory evacuation orders covers about 100 square kilometers (38 miles).

Police officers were writing down the names of residents and calling people to be escorted to see what had become of their properties.I cannot keep up with posting calls.Sarah Lyon of the Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said an eight-member team was preparing to head out into the evacuation zone to retrieve animals left behind.

a wildland fire research officer with the Canadian Forest Service.Its a pretty extreme situation.

Smoke from the Tantallon wildfire rises over houses in nearby Bedford.

where the provinces largest wildfire has been burning since the weekend.can now face the death penalty.

adding call for Ugandas law enforcement agencies to enforce the law in a fair.Uganda holds thanksgiving event for anti-gay lawsSame sex relations were already banned in Uganda before Museveni signed the new law.

Mashatile joined a chorus of voices from Western countries and the United Nations imploring Museveni not to sign the bill.Ugandas parliament passed legislation outlawing same-sex relations in March.