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The community of Banff has a growing number of immigrant residents – far more, percentage-wise, than the rest of the province and country. According to the 2011 Census, 27.

The MD of Bighorn has agreed to partner with the Exshaw Community Association and co-sign an application to allow ECA to apply for a $100,000 grant to renovate the community hall.

The Town of Canmore’s sustainable economic development and tourism strategy is fundamentally flawed, according to Canmore Business and Tourism officials, because it treats economic development and tourism as separate goals.

Canmore’s Municipal Development Plan will be rewritten this year, but it won’t happen alongside the planning process for Three Sisters Mountain Village.

Love wasn’t the only thing in the air during Our Lady of the Snows (OLS) St. Valentine’s Day academics and achievement ceremony – a good dose of praise and recognition was also present. The school spent Valentine’s Day (Feb.

It may soon be an offence in Canmore to leave your vehicle idling within the town’s limits.

The last time Brendan Green was in a mass start biathlon race, it nearly ended his career. Just to start the same race two years later at the 2014 Winter Olympics was a testament to his courage and determination.

Attention Banff: your Panda has been bronzed. Banff’s Jan Hudec ended Canada’s 20-year Olympic alpine medal drought and scored the first piece of hardware for Bow Valley athlete at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games on Sunday (Feb.

Heading into the Olympics, the Canadian men’s cross-country ski team was undeterred by the big climbs, tough opposition and warm weather that were to greet them in Sochi. What they weren’t anticipating was wax problems.

Residents of Banff not only live in one of the most beautiful places in the country, they are pretty darn happy to be doing so.