Canmore

Canada's four Nordic sports organizations have combined forces to create a new strategy to get more of their athletes on international podiums in the future. The last time Canada won an Olympic medal in the Nordic disciplines was in 2006 when Canmore residents and cross-country skiers Chandra Crawford, Beckie Scott and Sara Renner were on the podium in Turin, Italy.

A female scrambler was airlifted to Foothill Medical Center on Tuesday (July 28) afternoon after falling 100-feet near the Mount Lawrence Grassi summit

“Events like this are so important for us local artists. It’s the best way to keep the public interested in our work because we can share our passion with them in person.”

"All parties involved in this incident are known to each other, and this appears to have been a targeted attack against the victim."

Anyone who witnessed a black Toyota 4 Runner driving dangerously along Highway 1 from Canmore to Old Banff Coach Road Monday (July 27) is asked to call the Cochrane RCMP Detachment at 403-851-8000.

“Parking is only available at Quarry Lake parking lot, and not in adjacent neighbourhoods. There is no parking allowed on Highway 742. If the parking lot is full, Quarry Lake is at capacity.”

The Town of Canmore is formalizing two official off-leash zones at Quarry Lake, while residents in Banff are asking for a dividing fence at the industrial compound off-leash dog park to separate smaller dogs from larger ones.

Canmore's Kevin Van Tighem was awarded the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s  Robert Bateman Award for Conservation through the Arts for his fiction and non-fiction writing about wildlife and nature

Canmore RCMP have received a number of reports of vehicles being broken into at popular Kananaskis Country trailheads

While administration at CRPS maintains a procedure that directs students to "dress appropriately" is a broad direction for principals to follow, handbooks tells students at one local high school to dress in a way that is not a "distraction" to others and to "please respect the modesty of yourself and others."