Local News

Banff National Park’s dispatch centre continues to see increased calls for emergencies and non-emergencies.

Changes to Canmore’s municipal census have resulted in a different understanding of the town’s permanent and semi-permanent population.

Fearing it may hurt the local tourism industry in Banff and Canmore, Banff-Airdrie opposition candidates are criticizing a federal government policy that places limits on Australians participating in a working holiday visa program.

When people gather in the Bow Valley for the annual Festival of Eagles, almost without exception they ooh and aah as they watch the mighty birds of prey riding the thermals high above Canmore. Catherine Van Dorsten knows just how those birds feel.

A broad-based group of those concerned with commercial activities in Canada’s national parks have launched an official campaign to raise awareness of the issue across the country.

As Canmore grapples with opportunistic bears searching for food in busy residential neighbourhoods, a program has been launched in the Banff townsite to get rid of crabapple trees to keep hungry bears out of town. On Monday (Sept.

Changes to voter identification requirements made under the Conservative government’s new election laws have led to fears many Banff voters may be turned away at the polls on Oct. 19.

The newly re-minted Banff Canmore Community Foundation is accepting grant applications from community groups and with a very important change this year – all types of grants will be considered throughout the region.

A man and a woman are facing multiple charges after they were pulled over by Banff RCMP last week and found to be in possession of crystal meth, cocaine, marijuana and other drug trafficking paraphernalia.

Parks Canada has scaled back searches for the body of a 19-year-old man who was swept over Twin Falls, a 100-metre waterfall in Yoho National Park.