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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.

Banff Elementary School's Aidan Rutley shows off his project on homemade magnetic fluid by moving a magnet around a jar containing ferofluid at the Canadian Rockies Regional Science Fair at Banff Community High School on Tuesday (March 28). Rutley won a gold medal for his project in the chemical science category.

A Banff couple wants to operate pedicabs this summer as a shuttle system to help deal with traffic congestion expected with an onslaught of visitors.

Banff’s plans to install a solar photovoltaic system on the roof of the Fenlands recreation centre – which will be the largest in the Bow Valley – will cost the municipality much less than initially thought.

As Banff National Park continues to see record visitation numbers, human-wildlife occurrences in Canada’s flagship national park, including those involving bears and wolves, keep increasing year over year.

As so often happens in the Bow Valley when dire circumstances or tragedy strikes, friends, family and members of the wide community gather together.