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Alberta’s minister of municipal affairs was in Canmore last week to hold an information session on changes being proposed in the Municipal Government Act.

An update to the Alberta Rivers website and mobile app will allow for a faster, more efficient response from emergency personnel, to changing flood conditions. The province has launched version 3.

A feisty chihuahua spent five days and four nights in the wilderness of Banff National Park, remarkably managing to evade hungry wildlife, before she was finally found and reunited with her owner.

Aryn Toombs CANMORE It is a cold 5:45 a.m. in early May when members of Canmore’s paragliding community meet at the home of Patric Stettler.

A proposed flow track in Canmore running from the Benchlands neighbourhood to the Cemetery Jump Park is creating a great deal of buzz in the Bow Valley cycling community.

Plans to designate a series of existing trails in Banff as a Commonwealth walkway in honour of Queen Elizabeth II for the Canada 150 celebrations next year are well underway.

A new plan to recover Alberta’s threatened woodland caribou populations calls for a large fenced-in caribou rearing facility to help boost the critically low numbers in the Little Smoky herd.

The alignment of the final required wildlife corridor on Three Sisters Mountain Village lands is being submitted to the province of Alberta this week by the developer.

With a fresh new direction and strategic plan in place, Canmore’s Downtown Business Association is focused on several important projects this year including creating vibrancy in downtown core.

Treading carefully on late season snowpack, which inevitably gives way to sporadic knee-deep post-holing, Nicolas Leroux, a PhD candidate from France, and his supervisor, Dr.