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Plans to reintroduce bison into Banff National Park are moving along as planned, according to officials with Parks Canada, and this summer the idea is to locate several of the species in the backcountry so horses may get used to them.

It is only the third year of Canmore’s culinary festival Uncorked, but the young event has a really big win to brag about this year – being named Canadian event of the year.

Canmore residents were involved in a hectic weekend that caused death and injury in separate avalanches in the B.C. backcountry. The incidents shadowed a public awareness warning issued for the area from Avalanche Canada.

The Town of Banff will hire another part-time employee and buy additional equipment in order to do a better job of snow and ice clearing along sidewalks used by seniors between the downtown core and seniors’ residences. At a meeting Monday (Feb.

A Canmore group is knitting together tiny stuffed toys to bring children joy. The Origin Knitters ladies get together once a week to create Izzy Dolls, or comfort dolls, in the Origin at Spring Creek recreation room.

Three Canmore residents were involved in a hectic weekend of death and injury in separate avalanches in the B.C. backcountry. An avalanche was triggered near Esplanade Mountain west of Golden, B.C., Sunday (Feb. 21), said Golden-Field RCMP.

A 30-year-old Calgary man was killed in an avalanche that struck a group of snowmobilers west of Golden, B.C., on Saturday (Feb. 20). Golden-Field RCMP said a group of four triggered a size three avalanche in the Quartz Creek area.

A resolution to a longstanding land claim by the Siksika First Nation in Banff National Park may soon be settled once and for all.

Controversial ski area guidelines for Lake Louise approved quietly before the federal election was called at the beginning of August are not currently being reconsidered by Parks Canada.

Spray Lake Sawmills (SLS) is moving its Jamieson and Richards roads log hauling operation to an alternate route.