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A new physical activity program called Mountain Adventurers has been underway since the middle of September through the Town of Banff. It’s for Grade 4-6 students of Banff Elementary and runs on the half-day Fridays from noon to 4 p.m.

The younger generation of Albertans is being encouraged to learn and exhibit for one of Canada’s defining moments as a nation – the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

Banff’s mayor has taken her lobbying efforts all the way to the minister in charge of Parks Canada in hopes of getting park-and-ride lots to deal with anticipated soaring visitation for 2017 and beyond.

A Bow Valley school board is welcoming input from Stoney Nakoda elders regarding indigenous student education in off-reservation schools.

The newly constructed pedestrian bridge in Banff has been vandalized and RCMP are asking for the public's help identifying who did it.

An environmental assessment on Parks Canada’s $6.4 million plan to reintroduce bison into a remote area of Banff National Park is now out for public review. The 194-page detailed environmental impact analysis was released on Thursday (Oct.

As the bits and pieces of what used to be the purview of Canmore Business and Tourism are taken apart and examined, those in the community interested in pursuing work with specific economic sectors and providing much needed small business support hav

Ongoing debate over commercial development and conservation in Banff National Park continues almost 20 years after a two-year, $2 million Banff-Bow Valley study concluded unchecked development and use would irreparably harm the park and its wildlife.

Whirling disease continues to be detected in fish further afield in Banff National Park and in commercial fish hatcheries in Alberta.

A new proposal is on the table for a 71-unit hotel on Banff’s Lynx Street at the same location that was successfully appealed against in June 2015.