Billionaire NBA team owner is razing 5 homes to build mansion, 'amusement park' in Michigan

When I moved to Whitehorse in 2009, I’d never imagined having to plot out a household wildfire evacuation plan. I don’t remember noticing a particularly smoky season until the summer of 2013, when fires around the smaller community of Carmacks, two hours north, left a brown haze in the capital city’s atmosphere and the taste of barbecue in the air. The next summer, I wrote about the mushroom-hunting boom that had inevitably followed those fires: the morels popping up in the burn zones a year later were plucked by sweaty, ash-smeared pickers and sold for cash along the roadside to...