Local News

Owners of a Canmore vacation home rental management company are warning that information from one of their properties is being used in a scam through Kijiji classifieds.

Approximately 20 crabapples trees have been cut down in the Banff townsite this fall as part of a voluntary program to prevent opportunistic bears heading into town in search of food.

A local organization is looking to set processes in motion which would allow a Syrian refugee family to make the Bow Valley its home.

The Town of Banff has declared an overnight parking ban in the downtown core to help crews do a better job of snow clearing this winter. At a meeting on Monday (Nov. 9), council voted 4-2 to establish a parking ban from Nov. 15 to May 1 from 2 a.m.

Canmore’s elected officials began going over the 2016 operating and capital budgets for the municipality at the beginning of November and that means by the time they are done next month and approve both, they will have set municipal property tax rate

She’s following in the footsteps of her mother. Grizzly bear 148 – the 4 -year-old-daughter of famous female grizzly 64 – is capturing the imagination of residents and visitors alike in Banff National Park.

Third reading was approved for the Dead Man’s Flats Area Structure Plan (ASP) following the MD of Bighorn declining to go into mediation with the Town of Canmore.

It’s official, the Canmore Hotel is now designated a municipal historic site, making it all but impossible for it to be demolished and the site redeveloped in the future.

Currently, the government of Alberta does not have an approval process in place to determine what is required to develop a gondola operation.

There’s a new tone at Parks Canada. The new minister for Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, whose portfolio includes Parks Canada, fired off an email to Parks staff last week, saying she was honoured to join their department.