Local News

The number of tourists to visit Banff National Park was up 10.4 per cent to 3.6 million visitors last year – the busiest in 15 years for Canada’s flagship national park.

MP Blake Richards visited Exshaw’s MD of Bighorn council office on Friday (June 5) in support of the local seniors’ group receiving financial support from the government for flood renovations.

After six successful years of raising funds, friends and awareness for domestic violence prevention work, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes will become a truly Bow Valley event.

The Town of Banff is going after federal funding for three infrastructure projects, including a long-awaited $1 million permanent skateboard park at the Banff recreation grounds.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Saturday (June 6) by Steelhead Structures Inc. in Dead Man’s Flats to celebrate the beginning of construction on Park Place, a 24-unit storage/studio facility, with prices ranging from $317,900 to $595,900.

The provincial government has established a program for Albertans to report discoveries of valuable historic resources unearthed by the 2013 floods.

Canmore’s plans to build a $37 million debris retention structure in Cougar Creek will have to include re-designation of the specific area of the wildland provincial park for it to be completed.

Banff’s hot weather on Monday (June 8) broke a temperature record. Banff was one of eight jurisdictions to break records on Monday, with the mercury soaring to 27.1 C. The old record for June 8 was 25.6 C set in 1912.

While suddenly warm weather has winter and the Christmas season far, far removed from people’s minds, some groups, like the Bow Valley Food Bank, run around the calendar.

Canmore RCMP are investigating the death of an Edmonton-man whose wing suit failed to deploy on Sunday (June 7) and the death of a Calgary woman who fell in the Grotto Canyon area on Monday (June 8).