Local News

Canmore Business and Tourism took the time last week to launch its inaugural business awards and celebrate the best the local business community has to offer in seven categories.

The owners of six properties successful in a lottery for an incentive program to plug into solar power in Banff have until the end of the year to get their rooftop solar photovoltaic panel systems off the ground.

The Town of Banff is investigating higher standards for construction fencing, including the possibility of incorporating public art to make ugly construction sites more visually pleasing. At a meeting Monday (Oct.

The Town of Banff is taking part in the next step of a regional plan to investigate development of a waste-to-energy plant. At a meeting Monday (Oct.

With just under 100 days until the 2016 biathlon world cup begins and kicks off eight weeks of Nordic and winter carnival events, excitement in Canmore is building for the event. Last Wednesday (Oct.

For a creature that at most weighs 21 kilograms (35 lb) and would rather remain out of sight and out of mind, the coyote instills a surprising amount of fear in people.

Editor: Dear Mayor John Borrowman and Mayor Karen Sorenson, the Canmore and Banff hospital boards and MD of Bighorn reeve and council via Martin Buckley, COO.

In casting about for a seasonal business to balance the Jungle Flare operation which can be found on Main Street near the Old School Bus Ice Cream site, Janelle Moodie and Naho Okano have stepped into a winter-friendly operation.

The bustling of standing lines and the rustling of ballots made up the scene of hot voting contention in the halls of Canadian democracy on Friday (Oct. 16) – well, school halls that is.

Parks Canada has burned about 150 hectares in the remote Dormer Valley of Banff National Park to improve year-round habitat for wildlife. Officials say fire crews managed to get 150 hectares of grassland meadows burned on Saturday (Oct.