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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.

A second proposal to develop three parcels of land in the Peaks of Grassi neighbourhood received first reading from council Tuesday night (Oct. 20) and a public hearing was set for a land use zoning change application at the end of November.

A construction worker was flown to a Calgary hospital by STARS air ambulance, Friday (Oct. 16) after falling from a power pole in Banff.

The Alberta government is looking to tighten up legislation in a bid to prevent hunters from using drones to hunt wildlife.

A 37-year-old man is in hospital after being airlifted from the scene of a single vehicle crash on Highway 1A, Tuesday (Oct. 20).

AltaLink plans to replace the transmission line between Banff and Lake Louise.

MD of Bighorn councillors gave the nod to second reading of the debated Dead Man’s Flats Area Structure Plan (ASP). Council unanimously passed the reading on Bylaw 12/15 (ASP) as amended on Oct. 13 during its regular meeting.

Next time you pay your ATCO Gas or Fortis bill, you may notice a small change in the finer fee details.

Banff’s municipal planning commission has given the green light, in principle, to the potential addition of hotel rooms on the top floor of the downtown King Edward Hotel. At a meeting on Tuesday (Oct.

There are a number of things about the transboundary Columbia River Treaty that must be considered as the agreement is carried into the future, said three speakers at the In Deep Water Conversation event hosted by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Roc