Lake Louise

“Last year we didn’t have the traffic from those places. We didn’t have French Canadians, eastern Canada. The Australians didn’t come back last year. Now we are seeing them, and we are getting a lot of inquiries from those groups for the spring and summer.”

“It recognizes there’s a baseline for what we need to know and then there’s specialties. We’re trying to give each region, each team that has their own specialty areas to have that base level knowledge."

EDITORIAL: For people who live or visit the mountains in the winter, the threat of avalanches is a real issue for those travelling into certain areas across the Rocky Mountains.

PHOTOS: The past week in photography in the Bow Valley

“Once the snow is gone and we see more spring-like conditions, we’ll be able to scan the site and assess what’s happening on the ground, what’s happened over the winter, and then deploy any resources as needed for the spring.”

EDITORIAL: With an election mere months away, it was the biggest selling point for the UCP’s who are neck-and-neck in the polls with the NDP.

“The suspect asked for cash and when the victim did not have any, the suspect produced an edge weapon, pulled the victim out of the vehicle, and took off with the vehicle."

EDITORIAL: How much is too much tourism? It’s a question being grappled by area municipalities, the province and Parks Canada. All three levels of government face the question each day, but also look to solve how best to manage it.

“It’s not easy. There’s a lot of moving parts. … If anyone were to ask me do you think we got a project? I’d say yes, we got a project. We have a multi-national corporation that wants to partner with us. We’re developing memorandums of understanding and it’s moving forward.”

“It would be such good news to be able to not give up on that area and still have a place for these people to make an attempt on these peaks and let the story live on.”