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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.

A significant revamp and fee increase is being considered for Canmore’s business registry, but when it comes to what is being contributed through fees for economic development by two sectors, council would like to see equity in the changes.

Former national park wardens say they are disappointed signs featuring legendary pioneer and early park warden Bill Peyto are being taken down from both entrances to the Town of Banff to be replaced with something newer.

Canmore residents applying for a class one home occupation will no longer have to go through the development permit process if council changes its Land Use Bylaw later this year.

None of the cubs born to Banff’s collared female grizzly bears last year have survived. Both 138 and 130 emerged from the den last spring, each with two cubs in tow, but the females headed into the den in fall without their cubs.

The life and death of a celebrity female grizzly bear that made her home in the busy Bow Valley for almost 25 years is being hailed a success story. Bear 64 has been described as the “perfect bear.

The Municipal District of Bighorn is a few months away from seeing its landscape return to conditions prior to the life-altering 2013 flood.

Canmore’s elected officials spent over five hours Tuesday night (Jan. 13) listening to local residents’ submissions regarding a proposal to build approximately 20 more homes in the Peaks of Grassi subdivision.