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The community of Canmore is struggling to understand future development implications of several major proposals that would see the mountain town swell to a population of 34,000 and increase the number of hotel rooms and commercial and residential rea

Wolf activity increased slightly this winter around the periphery of Canmore where a wary Banff wolf pack has been travelling and hunting.

The Town of Canmore is considering amending its traffic and road use bylaw this year to better clarify regulations around electric bikes, cycling through pedestrian crossings and bike lane regulations.

The old axiom “one man’s trash is another’s treasure” was in evidence last week at the Francis Cooke landfill site east of Exshaw.

A local school division superintendent is championing efforts for stronger teaching and administration practices throughout provincial schools.

Canmore’s elected officials have taken a look at all the land owned by the municipality and assessed it for suitability to meet council’s priority of developing affordable housing and results indicate a limited supply.

A joint research project between Banff Community High School (BCHS) and Canmore Collegiate High School (CCHS) was presented March 22 at the CRPS Board of Trustees regular meeting at BCHS.

Thanks to an anonymous $25,000 donation, an endowment fund called the Canadian Rockies Science Fair Fund has been created by the Banff Canmore Community Foundation (BCCF).

Snow is melting, spring is taking hold in the Bow Valley and that means municipal engineers are looking to get into the ground and begin 2017 capital projects they have approved to improve Canmore’s road and utility network.

The newly accepted utility master plan for the Town of Canmore sets out various projects that would be needed to properly meet the needs of the growing community into the future and they come with a price tag of $51 million.