Local News

The province of Alberta and TransAlta have reached an agreement to protect communities along the Bow River from flood and drought by using the company’s reservoir system in exchange for $5.5 million each year over the next five years.

Safe, happy and healthy children are goals for a community and as Canadians we hope and strive for it every day as parents and teachers. But while that is a collective goal, it is not always the reality.

The courts have handed out a hefty $1,000 fine to a woman who has been caught repeatedly with her dog off-leash in Kananaskis Country.

Like a lot of Lyme disease patients, Dr. Rebecca Risk doesn’t know when she contracted the disease. She does know that most Lyme infections, and the co-infections that often accompany the disease, are contracted by from a tick bite.

Parks Canada is seeking funding from Ottawa to thin out dense forest around the Fenlands Loop and Forty Mile Creek near the Banff townsite to be better prepared in the event a wildfire rips through the area.

The next phase of Spring Creek Mountain Village is moving full steam ahead despite the fact Alberta is experiencing an overall downturn in its resource extraction based economy.

Grizzly bears ambling across ski resorts in Lake Louise and Jasper forced the closure of lifts and runs over the past week.

A local filmmaker will tell the Bow Valley story of the co-existence between grizzly bears and other wildlife and humans and how the mountain area has come so far.

Aaron Smith’s body lays motionless on asphalt after being ejected from a two-vehicle collision. The young man was a passenger and his drunken friend was driving.

Life long wellness; it’s not just a slogan, it’s a philosophy to embrace for life. And to instill a life-long philosophy, there’s no better place to start than with the young.