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Banff Lake Louise Hotel Motel Association is voicing support for the Town of Banff developing rental housing to ease the resort town’s housing crunch – but the group wants the municipality to push for discounts on land from the federal government and

Wildlife experts are using DNA analysis to determine if grizzly bear 130, one of the bears in Banff National Park fitted with a GPS collar for research purposes, is the daughter of famed grizzly bear 64.

Bow Valley students with a New Year’s Resolution to learn Spanish are in luck, as the language will be taught at schools this February.

A man who swam in the home of the endangered Banff Springs Snail has been fined $4,500. On Wednesday, (Jan.

Parks Canada plans to capture and collar several wolves in Banff to get information on what the packs are up to.

Domestic abuse constituted the biggest number of cases where volunteers and staff with Bow Valley Victim Services Association were called in to help and support people.

For a year and half the community of Canmore has gone through a process of learning more about its mountain creeks, their risks and hazards and what mitigations are possible to prevent another devastating debris flood similar to what happened on Coug

Council adopted the Municipal District of Bighorn’s Emergency Management Plan, but an Emergency Management Bylaw has been delayed at least a month after being deemed insufficient by a councillor.

As an investigation into a train derailment near Banff continues, one of the world’s leading aquatics scientists says the accident should serve as a big wakeup call that a bigger spill with more toxic material could happen.

Canmore is a unique community where parts of surrounding provincial parks overlap its town boundaries, but that fact has caused a bit of concern for the mayor and council.