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Compared to the mountains of Yukon’s Kluane National Park, the peaks of the Canadian Rockies are small hills.

Cathy Ellis BANFF A wide-ranging male grizzly bear that spent much of its time on national park lands and was part of a Parks Canada research project was shot dead in British Columbia during the province’s controversial spring grizzly bear hunt.

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The Town of Banff will start to crack down on enforcement of parking infractions next week as part of a plan to ease Banff’s parking crunch.

The best curlers in Canada will return to Banff this winter after TSN confirmed the Fenlands Arena will once again host the network’s All-Star Curling Skins Game, Jan. 16-18.

A 30-year-old Calgary man is dead after being struck by a tractor trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway near Canmore on Saturday (July 5).

Two major skiing world cup races are set to occur in Canmore in February and March of 2016 and the municipal government is looking at putting $247,000 towards it and a six-week festival to occur alongside the competitions.

A grizzly bear that ripped into an unoccupied tent at a backcountry campground near Moraine Lake has forced Parks Canada to put in place an annual mandatory hiking restriction for the region.

Three more black bears have been struck and killed by vehicles travelling through the mountain national parks since Tuesday (July 1).

Seven more grizzly bears have been fitted with high-tech tracking collars as part of a study aimed at preventing the threatened animals from dying on the train tracks in the mountain national parks.