Local News

A new draft housing strategy calls for more rental housing, a maximum size for single family homes, residential housing in the industrial compound, and mandating live-in management for new high density apartments as ways to tackle Banff’s housing sho

Neighbourhood and community opposition to a proposed staff accommodation on Beaver Street failed last week to convince Banff’s Development Appeal Board to put a stop to the project. DAB chair Barbara McNeil said last Thursday (Sept.

The owners of the Magpie & Stump building in Banff are not moving ahead with commercial redevelopment of their property at this time.

The future of a grizzly sow and cub suspected of killing a hunter in Kananaskis over the weekend is still uncertain. Wildlife biologists with Alberta Parks and conservation officers met this week on Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept.

The Bow Valley’s Christmas Spirit campaign is looking for a new board chair and treasurer to keep the organization running this year.

It is that time a year again and if you have heard the bugle calls of male elk in the valley, you know it is the annual rut.

Search efforts to find Ralph Greenaway, who is suspected of having been on his way to BASE jump at Mount Rundle in Banff National Park last week, continue.

A trail closure in the Fenlands area of Banff has been lifted after wildlife managers tranquilized a black bear digging in garbage in the townsite, Wednesday (Sept. 10).

A local initiative to drive economic development in the knowledge-based economy of the Bow Valley is moving forward with a new advisory board and event planned at the end of September.

Health care and art will meld during a celebration of 150 years of Catholic Heath Care in Alberta, Sept. 25 at Banff’s Mineral Springs Hospital. The event will take place from 4-7 p.m.