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In a 5-1 vote, Banff council defeated a motion to implement a quota system for chain stores in the mountain town and, for now, ended the debate surrounding an issue that has been ongoing for the last 30 years.

The owner of the 123-year-old Canmore Hotel is preparing to take the first official step towards restoring this downtown landmark.

Smoking is now the second largest identified health concern after alcohol for residents in the Bow Valley, but a free program offered through the Bow Valley Primary Care Network in Canmore can help people curb their addiction while promoting an activ

Grizzly bears never cease to amaze us. Data downloaded from a GPS collar fitted on a young male grizzly bear shows he surprisingly, and somewhat regularly, travelled across glaciated terrain in search of good habitat last year.

Human actions, says Dr. Jim Bruce, are changing the chemical composition of the global atmosphere.

Early in his career, Dr. Richard Rothwell lived in a trailer with his wife and daughter while setting up the Marmot Creek streamflow research site in Kananaskis in the early 1960s.

Immigrant services professionals came together at Banff YWCA on Thursday (March 7) for an assembly of the Workplace Communication for Rural Immigrants program, a pilot project aimed at helping small-town immigrants communicate better in the workplace

The night before Jacqueline Hutchison and a team of doctors and firefighters from across Alberta travelled to the earthquake-ravaged Republic of Haiti they received an important phone call from the organizer in charge of their trip.

Banff’s need for more affordable housing units could be on the turnaround after the Municipal Planning Commission (MPC) approved a development permit application for a new 38-unit apartment building in the downtown core.

Jeremy Kroeker wants you to love the sound of his voice – and the look of his bathtub.