Local News

The federal court has ruled in Parks Canada’s favour over its decision to ban parking in hazardous avalanche terrain on part of the access road to Sunshine Village ski resort.

Parks Canada has confirmed a grizzly bear was struck by a train in Banff National Park – but can’t say whether the bruin died or survived.

A bear closure has been lifted at Vermilion Lakes, but a large area surrounding the Banff townsite remains under a warning.

The province of Alberta is reviewing and updating the Municipal Government Act and Canmore’s elected officials have some big suggestions.

A mandatory seasonal closure of a stretch of Bow Valley Parkway, aimed at giving wildlife undisturbed space and security in the busy Bow Valley during the critical springtime, has been lifted.

The Town of Banff is hiring a parking management company to implement and enforce its user-pay parking trial this summer and beef up enforcement of existing time limited parking spaces in the tourist town.

Banff’s 2014 municipal census began Monday (June 16) and census takers will be out in full force in Banff neighbourhoods, leaving door hangers at every home and suite.

On the same evening the town of Claresholm was declaring a state of emergency due to overland flooding last week, Banff Fire Department was holding a training session with specialty flood-fighting equipment.

A new communication policy directing all Parks Canada media requests go through high-ranking bureaucrats in Ottawa means Banff residents – and the Canadian public – no longer have the same access to information about their national parks as they used

While neighbouring residents against developing the old daycare site in Canmore were quite vocal at a public input session last Wednesday (June 18), there were also those present quite concerned about future available affordable housing in the commun