Local News

Banff Housing Corporation is mapping out its future direction given there are no more big chunks of land inside town boundaries to develop for below-market housing.

A large male grizzly was killed on the Trans-Canada Highway near Lake Louise in the middle of the night, May 9-10.

A highly-skilled rescue team from the mountain national parks has recovered the bodies of two men who died after falling into crevasses in two separate incidents up north.

Canmore council has set 2011 property tax rates and, in line with past decisions, voted to redistribute the tax burden between commercial and residential classes.

With construction of the Multiplex underway, Canmore’s public art committee is already hard at work on the largest commission in the community’s history.

Randy Chartrand gets a thrill as highway cleanup volunteer Rosemary Power locates a valuable missing hubcap from his friend's 50s Chevrolet Saturday (May 7).

A Land Use Bylaw application to pilot a change of use that would not restrict the length of stay in visitor accommodation units will not result in large numbers of units becoming homes for full-time residents, according to a Canmore developer.

While there were not a large number of presentations at a recent public hearing for the draft Dead Man’s Flats Area Redevelopment Plan (ARP), two of three people to speak were against the plan.

Facing a third deficit school year in a row, the Canadian Rockies Public School board approved $1.3 million in spending cuts to its budget for the upcoming school year on Tuesday (May 10).

Canmore’s animal control bylaw will address several new issues, including pigeons, vicious dogs and those who drive around with Fido in the back of a pick-up truck.