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In the hope that one day the community of Canmore will come together in some form or another to create a destination marketing organization, the board of directors for Canmore Business and Tourism are leaving behind its corporate structure.

A female black bear has been struck and killed by a freight train in Banff National Park, leaving behind an orphaned cub to find a way to survive on its own.

The Outdoor Learning Centre in Kananaskis Country, run by the local school board, has had a very successful summer by attracting students to take courses at the facility from around Alberta.

Two different incidents involving the same doomed wolf in Banff have resulted in $1,000 fines for two men.

Plans to use lands from an abandoned golf course project to add more development to Three Sisters Mountain Village’s resort core are being challenged by at least one local conservation group.

Banff’s tourism industry continued to struggle with a chronic labour shortage over the summer and into fall, despite significant recruitment efforts and unprecedented unemployment in Alberta.

It is officially registered with the Geographical Names Board of Canada for a tunnel that was never carved through it during the westward march of progress by the railway, but Tunnel Mountain in Banff National Park could soon have a much more histori

Several Canadian environmental groups are calling on the federal government to put nature and wildlife first and foremost over commercial development in the mountain national parks.

Canmore’s newest municipal committee began meeting this week when council met as a finance committee officially on Tuesday (Sept. 27).

With the number of fentanyl-related deaths increasing across the country, Bow Valley PCN staff are among those receiving training to provide education and access to naloxone kits aimed at reducing overdose risks.