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She struggles to survive on a daily basis trying to make a living – and now she has the added pressure of raising her young ones in the busy Bow Valley.

The Town of Canmore is looking at outsourcing more of its services to the private sector.

A controversial proposal to abolish the lottery and move to a merit-based system of handing out remaining commercial space in Banff is on the back burner for now.

A need to find new ways to make money has the Town of Canmore looking at charging people when they call 911 and a fire truck responds.

Dirty and unnaturally high water flows caused by mechanical problems at TransAlta’s hydroelectric facility may wipe out a westslope cutthroat population in the Spray River.

On Sunday, May 21, 1911, the Horseshoe Hydro Plant on the Bow River at Seebe began producing power. A century later, the plant is still producing power using the same infrastructure initially installed by Calgary Power.

Michale Lang’s new book, An Adventurous Woman Abroad: The Selected Lantern Slides of Mary T. Schäffer: The Rockies, Japan & Taiwan surprised me.

Banff souvenir and gift shop owners are breathing a huge sigh of relief in the wake of council’s decision to scrap plans to place strict controls on their retail stores.

A woman in her mid-40s is lucky to be alive after falling 150 metres from Mount Niles in Yoho National Park on Sunday (July 24).

As far as histories go, Western Canada is not the first place one would look for stories told over the sweep of time.