Canmore

GHOST LAKE VILLAGE – The 1A Highway between Canmore and Cochrane is closed after a vehicle collision on Sunday afternoon. According to a Cochrane RCMP press release, emergency services were called to the scene at 1:50 p.m. near Ghost Lake Village.

CANMORE – Two men who ran to help another in distress in Quarry Lake last summer will receive an award from the Royal Life Saving Society in October.

CANMORE – In a bid to improve the assessment of property values in Canmore, council recently approved establishing an in-house assessment branch that will work directly with the town’s finance department.

CANMORE ­– A hotel sign that was in violation of town bylaws will be allowed to stay after the subdivision and appeal board upheld an appeal to keep it the way it is.

CANMORE – Local transit in Canmore was already seeing increased ridership in 2018, but a two-month trial of fare-free transit in the community has exceeded expectations, according to municipal officials.

CANMORE – The municipality will spend an additional $145,000 to replace an outdoor rink on the old daycare lands to cover unexpected costs and ensure it can be used for pickleball next summer.

CANMORE – Ha Ling trail will be closed until the beginning of October to allow crews to continue to improve and upgrade the popular Kananaskis Country trail.

CANMORE – With the first Canadian Girls On Ice (GOI) completed, Canmore resident and co-organizer Jocelyn Hirose said she felt exhausted and proud that the 12-day program had been not just successful, but deeply meaningful.

CANMORE ­– The applicant behind a controversial development project in the Peaks of Grassi neighbourhood will have to pay nearly $16,000 in development fees a second time after council unanimously rejected waiving the fees on Tuesday (Aug. 21).

CANMORE – Traffic calming measures installed on Benchlands Trail as part of a pilot project to try and slow drivers down proved unsuccessful in the end.