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Banff hoteliers are lobbying Ottawa over surprise increases to the prevailing wage for temporary immigrants they say are proving too costly in today’s economy.

Canmore RCMP are asking the public for assistance following an armed robbery at Fergie’s Convenience & Pizza after a male suspect made off with about $1,000 in cash, Monday night (July 30). According to Cpl.

The two victims of last Sunday’s (July 29) tragic climbing accident in the Heart Creek area have been identified, but police and Alberta Parks are still unsure about what caused the pair to fall almost 100 metres to their deaths.

The Municipal Planning Commission for the MD of Bighorn has approved Lafarge Canada’s development permit application to expand the Exshaw cement plant.

Later this month, 1,500 cyclists from around the world will take part in the first GranFondo event held exclusively within a national park. On Aug.

Banff’s Rundle Memorial United Church is investigating building residential housing on site.

A fed bear is a dead bear – and the clock is ticking for an opportunistic young bruin that has repeatedly gotten food and garbage from messy campsites at Banff’s Two Jack Lake.

Researchers with the Royal Ontario Museum are scour ing the Rockies with the hope of better understanding the 505-million-year-old Burgess Shale sites scattered throughout the Rocky Mountain national parks.

A date rape prevention campaign has an important message for all the men out there – “Don’t be that guy.

Even though scientists began documenting the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1858 at the time of James Hector, a member of the Palliser Expedition, the single-most fundamental question about the Rockies – how the mountains formed – was not answered until