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In a case of mistaken identity, a 505-million-year-old fossil from the Burgess Shale was identified as an ancient seaweed in the 1930s and given the name Margaretia dorus.

A voracious fan of Rocky Mountain big dumps, alpine skier Kelly McBroom has dropped into more bowls than anyone in the Bow Valley. Now, she's turning her excitement over double entendres into a business with the creation of Big Dump Plungers.

Parks Canada has outright banned the use or possession of VHF radio receivers in Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks following suspicions people were using telemetry equipment to search for wildlife for photographs.

If you have lived in the Bow Valley for a while and know a fair bit about how to survive and what’s what and who’s who – your assistance is being requested by a new community organization.

The local member of the legislative assembly for Banff-Cochrane, Cameron Westhead, is again travelling south of the border for a leadership and policy development program.

A Banff resident was charged for illegally leaving out “unsecured garbage” in a backyard last week that resulted in a wolf being able to feed on it.

The province of Alberta has announced another $239 million in funding for the provincial parks system over the next five years. The funding announcement, said to offset historic underfunding, was made on Friday (Aug.

The Municipal District of Bighorn has approved a general plan for pavement rehabilitation on MD roads over the next decade that can be tweaked as needed.

There are big challenges when working on conservation efforts for large scale areas of land, like the Yellowstone to Yukon region that spans the spine of our continent reaching into the arctic and down into the United States.

The 2016 Alberta Bikes Conference is being held in Canmore next month and organizers hope to attract attendees that represent a diverse cross section of the cycling community. The fourth annual conference is being held Sept.