Wildfire smoke has left parts of northern Alberta and the Rocky Mountain region shrouded in haze Saturday, increasing the health risk in some areas amid a prolonged heatwave.

There were 155 total wildfires burning throughout Alberta as of 11 a.m. Saturday, according to the Alberta Wildfire status dashboard. Some of the wildfires — namely those burning near Chipewyan Lake, and Little Red River Cree Nation and Garden River areas in northern Alberta — had forced roughly 1,100 people from their home…