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STRATHMORE — Nearly $7 million in provincial and federal spending will create six teams of urban wildfire crews, Alberta's public safety minister announced Friday. Speaking in Strathmore, Alta.

MONT-JOLI — Last year, the Gulf of St. Lawrence recorded its highest maximum surface temperature and lowest seasonal volume of ice cover in decades, say researchers with the federal Fisheries Department.

WINNIPEG — Cottage owners and disaster prevention experts in Manitoba are urging governments to develop comprehensive wildfire management plans after a pair of devastating wildfires.

LAVRION, Greece (AP) — Greece is deploying a record number of firefighters and nearly doubling its drone fleet this summer to address growing wildfire risks driven by climate change , officials said Thursday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Record floodwaters on Australia’s east coast have left four people dead and one missing, officials said Friday as rain eased over the disaster area.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina House advanced another Hurricane Helene funding package on Thursday to address pressing needs in the mountains eight months after the storm caused historic flooding and destruction .

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Record floodwaters on Australia's east coast left three people dead and one missing, officials said Thursday, as more heavy rain was forecast in the area.

WINNIPEG — Parts of Whiteshell Provincial Park that are a safe distance away from an out-of-control wildfire are set to reopen.

TORONTO — Toronto is experiencing a stretch of unusually low temperatures that haven't been seen in late May in decades. Environment Canada is forecasting a daytime high of 10 C on Thursday – just a touch warmer than a record low set on May 22, 1967.

TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band.