Local Sports

January Len Valjas broke Canada’s recent cross-country medal drought with a bronze medal performance on Jan. 1 in Val Müstair, Switzerland during the Tour de Ski.

Dasha Gaiazova cracked the top 15 for the first time this season as Canada’s national cross country ski team slowly began to turn the corner at a world cup stop in Asiago, Italy.

Canmore Riptides swimmers took home 27 medals, including seven gold, at the Age Group Challenge in Calgary in mid-December.

For two AJHL teams that don’t face each other often, there’s no love lost between the Canmore Eagles and the Lloydminster Bobcats.

A palpable mask of tension and anguish was stricken from biathlete Brendan Green’s face as he lunged across the finish line at the Canmore Nordic Centre on Friday (Dec. 20).

With Canadians searching for holiday hardware, leave it to The Panda to climb the first podium. Banff’s Jan Hudec, nicknamed The Panda, won silver on Friday (Dec.

Canmorite Nathan Smith’s gamble on the banks of Le Grand Bornand, France will carry him all the way to Sochi, as the biathlete has earned his spot on Canada’s Olympic team with a pair of top 20 results this weekend. Going into Saturday’s (Dec.

The Banff Public Library looks set to receive the full $433,500 in municipal funding it is seeking in order to hire a new head librarian and maintain other staffing levels so services won’t be further cut.

Determination aflame in her heart and legs, biathlete Zina Kocher attacked the anchor leg like a woman possessed in the women’s 4x6-kilometre world cup relay in France on Dec. 12.

Banff’s Get Out Youth program looks set to expand on a trial basis to meet recent growth in the number of students taking advantage of the supervised drop-in program.