Local News

Tourism businesses in the Bow Valley, both established and those still in the startup-phase, have the opportunity to take their great idea to the next level with an upcoming live crowdfunding event.

Parks Canada has been forced to destroy a bull elk that attacked a jogger at the Banff recreation grounds, while another bull may be killed for ongoing aggressive behaviour inside town boundaries.

A dead bat found at Banff’s Cave and Basin has tested positive for rabies. Parks Canada officials say a silver-haired bat was observed displaying abnormal behaviour at the Cave and Basin National Historic Site on the afternoon of Aug. 30.

Female grizzly bear 148 has been crisscrossing back and forth between drainages in Alberta and B.C., travelling approximately 450 kilometres in her new home in a remote area of northwestern Alberta.

It is hot and dry in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and B.C. with extreme fire danger levels heading into the Labour Day long weekend and two new wildfires started yesterday are being fought by Parks Canada crews.

George Reed takes out a training bag during a Bow Valley Wolverines football practice at Canmore Collegiate High School. The team opens its regular season with a home game against the Drumheller Titans, Saturday (Sept. 2) at 2 p.m. at Millennium Field in Canmore. The Wolverines return to Canmore for their second home game of the season on Sept. 9.

Banff has recorded one of the hottest and driest summers on record. According to Environment Canada, Banff has recorded the 13th driest summer since 1887 when records began to be kept. The driest was summer 2003. In August, only 7.

The large area bear closure on the south side of the Bow Valley remains in place – yet people continue to enter the area where the animals are feeding on buffalo berries.

A $10,000 grant from the Alberta Culture and Tourism Francophone Secretariat is a much needed boost to further develop programs and events for the ever-growing Francophone and Francophile community in the Bow Valley.

Hostelling International’s Castle Mountain Wilderness Hostel in Banff National Park is closing its doors on Jan. 1, 2018, following a land claim settlement between the federal government and Siksika First Nation.