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 ...

gold is still being mined in Dawson City? One of the local prospectors is a descendant of German immigrants. In Yellowknife, the landscape design of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly ...

It is one of 240 fires in the Northwest Territories and was about 15km (9 miles) from Yellowknife on Thursday. The outskirts of the city, home to 20,000 people, could be under threat on Saturday.