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Relaxing in the Rockies over spring break isn’t in the schedule for a group of local students.

The fight against poverty in Nicaragua is finding support from an unusual ally here in the Bow Valley.

Three tiny black bear cubs were dumped and locked inside a washroom at a viewpoint overlooking Vermilion Lakes in Banff National Park last weekend.

Parks Canada is testing camera technology at the east entrance to Banff National Park in a bid to find a way to get better information on the number of vehicles and visitors.

Grade 2 student Zach Eeles, left, smashes a sponge crust filled with whipped cream in teacher Jennifer Orchard's face during a pie-throwing fundraiser at Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Academy in Canmore on Wednesday (April 5). The OLS students raised $800 from the fundraiser to send students to the Dominican Republic to help build schools over the upcoming spring break.

An extensive two-year remote camera study detected only a couple of grizzly bears travelling on the north side of the Bow Valley in Canmore – an area used extensively by hikers and mountain bikers.

The Canmore RCMP detachment has seen an increase in property crimes from 2014 to 2016 and local law enforcement officials have plans for how they are going to address those types of crimes in 2017. Sgt.

Big changes were made to the Town of Canmore’s public art program earlier this month when council voted to approve two locations for murals to celebrate Canada’s 150th, and cancelled a 2016 project along Cougar Creek.

A local animal rights group is speaking up for man’s best friend, while putting a spotlight to the “dark side” of the business.

A parliamentary standing committee is calling on Parks Canada to be more transparent and accountable to the public in its decision-making process and stick to development limits in national parks.