Local News

A Bow Valley choir group is giving the gift of lovely voices to calm the soul. Alpine Voices, the local chapter of Threshold Choir, has a gentle tune they’re eager to sing.

The Town of Canmore really wants you to recycle. The municipality wants residents and businesses to recycle so much, that it has prohibited putting recyclable material in garbage bins in its garbage bylaw.

If you don’t know too much about road allowances and how they might relate to affordable housing in Canmore – you are not alone.

It’s a subject which, if discussed at all, is generally done in hushed, reverent, almost secretive, voices. But death, the inevitable conclusion to life, is the subject of an All Souls’ Week event at Ralph Connor Memorial United Church, Oct.

The Municipal District of Bighorn has received an award worthy of the history books. The municipality is the 2016 recipient of a Municipal Heritage Preservation Award for its continued commitment to local history conservation.

The Seebe General Store, which saw generations of Bow Valley customers step through its doors, was torn down to rubble this week. A construction crew bulldozed the building that sat idle for over a decade on Tuesday (Oct. 18).

Free Roam bus service in Banff during busy summer months is under consideration to help alleviate the tourist town’s traffic troubles.

Yoho National Park is getting an additional $11 million.

The Town of Canmore is hoping to exchange land with Alberta Parks in the Cougar Creek watershed in order to build steep creek flood mitigation infrastructure.

Whirling disease has been detected in fish in Healy Creek in Banff National Park, suggesting the disease that’s decimated fish populations in the United States is more widespread in Banff than hoped. On Monday (Oct.