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A pair of tourism leaders want to throw a party and everyone is invited. Banff Heritage Tourism and Banff Lake Louise Tourism are spearheading a new community event to help kick off winter called Summon the Snow.

Municipalities, the province and local businesses are stepping forward with a highly progressive water/sewer infrastructure development project in the Bow Valley. A ground-breaking ceremony was held Saturday (Nov.

Parks Canada has closed off a large area near Lake Louise to protect a denning female grizzly bear.

Parks Canada received more than 1,000 comments on its plan to reintroduce plains bison to Banff National Park. The public comment period on the draft Plan for Reintroduction of Plains Bison in Banff National Park ended Nov.

An adoption process takes time, patience, research and money. Especially with international adoption.

Cougar Creek is getting a complete makeover. The mountain stream, which flooded to unprecedented levels in June, is slated for flood mitigation work that will change the way the channel looks permanently.

Canmore’s proposed 2014 capital budget was presented this week and members of the budget committee directed administration to find ways to save approximately $360,000. The cut to the $17.

Parks Canada is rebuilding a dam at Johnson Lake that was damaged by raging floods in June.

Angle parking is to remain on the 100 block of Beaver Street – at least for now – despite pleas from neighbourhood residents to return parallel parking to the busy residential road.

Sunshine Village ski resort and Parks Canada are set to do battle in court in the New Year over a parking ban on the upper three kilometres of the access road to the ski hill.