Local News

Canmore’s development industry lobby group believes tourist home tax rates are discriminating and the commercial to residential mill rate split puts too much burden on business.

Parks Canada is exploring options for the licensing of commercial dive companies in Banff National Park for the summer of 2013 – though what those options are is not yet known.

Visitors to Radium Hot Springs last weekend got a first-hand glimpse of one of the most powerful and impressive events in nature – a cougar attacking a bighorn sheep.

Cathy Ellis BANFF Parks Canada is working on a long-term plan to improve visitor experience and protect wildlife in the Minnewanka Loop region of Banff National Park.

Canadian Rockies Public Schools is moving forward with a proposal to create a sports school at Canmore Collegiate High School.

MD Reeve Dene Cooper announced Tuesday, March 13, he is stepping down as treasurer of the Calgary Regional Airshed Zone (CRAZ). Cooper said he was resigning his position as treasurer on March 21 given the high cost to the municipality.

The economic spinoff and promotion for Banff National Park from TV personality Kelly Ripa filming her popular daytime talk show in Banff is said to be huge.

A B.C. man was fined $5,500 this week after pleading guilty to having two black bear paws while he was in Banff National Park. Kwok Kei Leung entered the plea Monday (March 19) in Canmore Provincial Court in front of Judge George Gaschler.

Sunshine Village officials are neither confirming nor outright denying claims that the Banff National Park ski hill wants to build a lift from its parking lot to the top of Wawa Ridge.

A new study looking at one of the enigmatic creatures of the 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossil beds has shown that one of our oldest relatives – albeit a distant one – is, in fact, a worm.