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Following the demise of Canmore Business and Tourism in July, a newly-formed Chamber of Commerce which will embrace the entire valley will become a reality on Jan. 18.

Christmas is for the birds – but this year’s bitterly cold weather and lack of food for seed eating birds meant numbers were significantly down during the annual Banff-Canmore Christmas bird count.

An Alberta company that has already connected a number of communities in the province to high speed fibre optic internet is looking at investing in that infrastructure for Canmore.

It may be a hard question to answer politically, but when it comes to water and wastewater systems for the Town of Canmore, the answer to the question of what the community's population would be at build out can be glimpsed in the expected update to

RCMP are looking for public assistance in locating 27-year-old Lorenzo Anthony Bearspaw of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation. Shortly after 2 a.m. on Jan.

A new program aimed at dealing with Banff’s labour shortage while giving residents from the Stoney Nakoda nation a chance to work in the tourism hospitality industry is seeing early signs of success.

Firefighters battle a flareup on the roof of the Mount Royal Hotel in Banff on Thursday (Dec. 29). Fire crews from across the Bow Valley joined the Banff Fire Department in mutal aid to combat a blaze that destroyed the third floor of the hotel and left the remainder, along with Banff Avenue businesses beneath, uninhabitable.

Long-awaited regional transit from Banff to Lake Louise, plus bus service from the village to Upper Lake Louise and Moraine Lake, seems one step closer to reality thanks to $4.2 million in provincial grants.

Almost 300 people escaped unharmed as fire ripped through the upper levels of Banff’s historical Mount Royal Hotel in the early morning hours of Thursday (Dec. 29) ­– one of the biggest fires in the town’s history.

Banff is a step closer to getting a third greenhouse – but it’s still at least a year away.