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A new provincial grant program to help out Alberta’s infant craft distilling industry is being met with big cheers by local distillers who say it will create new jobs and drive investment.

Overall property tax bills in Banff may end up higher than planned after the provincial school tax requisition announced in last week’s provincial budget was higher than expected. The Town of Banff is required to collect $7.

Banff’s Deer Lane affordable housing development is getting $11.9 million in provincial funding. The money was announced in the provincial budget last Thursday (March 16), and amounts to about half of the $23.

An historic avalanche cycle, which led to the deaths of two American tourists who were out snowshoeing in Banff National Park last week, has prompted a warning for outdoor enthusiasts to keep out of avalanche terrain.

It may seem like a lot of development proposals in and around Canmore are currently being floated and the result has been significant concern among community members over the cumulative impacts of future growth on all aspects of life in the Bow Valle

An ice climber fined for not having a camping permit in Banff National Park twice over the past several months says the reservation system Parks Canada uses isn’t flexible enough for his needs.

The new Banff Elementary School’s (BES) second phase was officially announced for funding in provincial Budget 2017.

The Boss is back. Bear 122, the dominant male grizzly of the area, was spotted along Bow Valley Parkway near Castle Mountain on Wednesday (March 22) – the first confirmed grizzly bear sighting of the year in Banff National Park.

How Canmore’s municipal fire department is staffed and organized, as well as its priorities, could see changes after town council accepted a new 10-year fire-management plan earlier this month.

The possibility of a 2026 Winter Olympics bid by the City of Calgary, that clearly would involve the community of Canmore as a major Nordic sport venue, is a hot topic of conversation locally, but the question still remains as to whether or not it ma