Lake Louise

A $40,000 donation will help local children and youth keep active by removing financial barriers to participating in sports and recreation.

The time to celebrate the people who bring greatness to Bow Valley sports and mountaineering is right around the corner.

Environment Canada issued special air quality statements for local communities Sunday afternoon (Sept. 11).

“Wilderness areas are ideal places to support fire on the land because they typically contain large areas where fires will pose limited threats to public safety, buildings and infrastructure."

As the towns of Banff and Canmore have prioritized more active modes of transit, a new battle is taking place among some residents and visitors. Who has priority on the paths and/or trails and is it possible to simply share them and be respectful of one another?

“The skateboarding community and the people I’ve met at the skate parks have offered to help. The board shops fully sponsored us for everything we could’ve asked for. The whole skateboard community just wants to get people into skateboarding.

“We did initially have all five of those nests active that were active last year, but unfortunately, because only one bird returned, there was no egg laid so that nest is not active.”

“We will consider the feedback they provided along with the feedback from all Canadians,” said Dave Riley, Sunshine’s chief operating officer and senior vice-president.

“We really see this as an opportunity for Alberta to meaningfully and sustainably diversify its economy, but that’s going to require a coordinated advocacy effort to remind government and those wanting to form government that we need to have a strategic policy framework.”

EDITORIAL: The guiding document for Banff National Park is in. And a priority on getting people from point A to point B in more sustainable and environmentally prudent methods will be a driving force in what serves as the direction for the popular national park for the coming decade and beyond.