Lake Louise

“I think we have a strong Alberta team. B.C. is definitely our huge competition, but I think we have a strong team to put up a fight against them.”

Roam buses will have to wait to see if a new clientele will be using their services. The Bow Valley Regional Transit Services Commission postponed making a decision on whether leashed dogs will be allowed on buses.

Wildfire experts say a changing climate leading to longer and hotter fire seasons, combined with more than a century of fire suppression, has led to tinder dry and ageing forests that have created perfect conditions for high intensity wildfires to spread quickly.

“I would say that we are very pleased that the federal electoral boundary commission heard our concerns that it separated Banff and Canmore. We are quite pleased to see Banff and Canmore be reunited and we are thrilled that Jasper is also joining.”

“They found what appeared to be the deceased person at the bottom of a cliff in that area."

EDITORIAL: The news of Canmore General Hospital having to shutter its operating room on weekends because of a staffing shortage is the latest wrench tossed at the region’s and province’s beleaguered healthcare system.

PHOTOS: The past week in photography in the Bow Valley

“We have about 9,000 residents [in Banff], who, in conjunction with our local businesses, pay the cost of those four million visitors flushing toilets and using wastewater treatment,” said Banff Mayor Corrie DiManno. “They pay for the thousands of hours of garbage collection and recycling sorting needed for the roads and sidewalks that support up to 40,000 people a day in the summertime.”

Many of the vehicles that caught on fire had only the frames remaining.

EDITORIAL: Discussing the lack of housing – specifically the affordable kind – in the Bow Valley can quickly sound like a broken record.