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It’s a place of healing, reflection, solitude, contemplation and worship and its doors are once again open and welcoming at Banff Mineral Springs Hospital.

The Stewart Creek Golf Course at last has a conservation easement in place covering a buffer area between its greens and the nearby Three Sisters wildlife corridor designated by the province.

The doctor has left the building. Dr. Heidi Schroter has spent more than two and a half decades at the Stoney Health Centre, working closely with families and children as a regularly visiting pediatrician, and she just retired.

The webcast video recording of a January council meeting that included the controversial decision to approve rezoning of land in the Peaks of Grassi has been accidentally deleted.

Banff politicians are taking a closer look at the municipality’s snow removal policy in a bid to do a better job of clearing snow and ice in certain areas, including those frequently used by seniors.

Environmental groups are boycotting Banff National Park’s annual planning forum amid concerns Parks Canada is too focused on commercial development and say the forum no longer provides an acceptable level of public accountability on management of the

The major statutory planning document that sets out the context in which the community of Canmore will develop over the next decade has been updated and rewritten and received first reading by council, meaning it is ready for the public hearing stage

The Municipal Government Board (MGB) will consider a 2016 date for the Dead Man's Flats Area Structure Plan (ASP) merit hearing, but first, Stoney Nakoda Developments Ltd.

No grizzly bears died at the hands of humans in Banff National Park last year – but the human caused death toll of grizzly bears on neighbouring Alberta provincial lands in 2015 climbed to as high as 28.

Parks Canada is still investigating how it will make up about $60 million in lost revenue by giving out free park passes in 2017 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Canada’s confederation.