Local News

Sarah Hutchinson has a great amount of advice to offer about ticks and Lyme disease as part of Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Unfortunately, she had to learn all of it first hand.

Dead Man’s Flats is the Bow Valley’s most unique place name and, while it is often attributed to a gruesome murder that occurred in 1904, another story behind the origina of the name is decidedly less gruesome.

While the subdivision of seven lots at the corner of Banff Avenue and Marmot Crescent dates back to 2011 and includes a hearing in front of the Alberta Court of Appeal, Banff’s Municipal Planning Commission made short work of the issue at its meeting

Two fatal collisions took place on Alberta highways last weekend and the Bow Valley was lucky to avoid a similar situation.

Banff’s Community Housing Strategy Committee is open to the idea of promoting more residential development in the industrial compound as one way of dealing with the tourist town’s housing crunch.

Banff’s Cascades of Time gardens will flow with features in the not too distant future.

A Sunshine Village Ski Resort employee is in stable condition at a Calgary hospital following a workplace accident early Friday morning (May 16). According to a spokesperson with Occupational Health and Safety the 25-year-old male was injured at 4 a.

RCMP are looking for information on graffiti taggers who defaced a number of locations in Banff’s Central Park, last weekend. RCMP Cpl. Chris Kosack said the graffiti was likely applied late Friday (May 9) or in the early hours of Saturday.

Beginning this year, Lafarge is creating a $315,000 education endowment fund, with two MD of Bighorn students eligible for $5,000 scholarships.

An expert on how to make North American communities more bicycle friendly says there are a number of ways both the private and public sector in Canmore can make the town more bike friendly and thus increase tourism.