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Banff Heritage Tourism has launched a new outdoor photo installation in Banff Avenue Square.

Thieves escaped with $200,000 worth of precious gems in what appears to be a professional break-in at the Canmore Ammonite Factory on Bow Meadows Crescent. At 11:15 p.m.

CATHY ELLIS BANFF It’s been a deadly week for wildlife in the mountain national parks.

It was not on their itinerary, but speculation ran wild last week about where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would spend a day of rest on their Royal Tour.

Entry fees and camping fees in national parks may go up next year. Parks Canada is considering an increase to its user fees, ranging from entry and camping rates, to the cost of fishing licences and use of hot thermal pools.

Banff’s Mount Norquay may take the plunge into commercial hang gliding and paragliding.

Banff National Park officials are warning people they are prepared to lay charges against anyone caught harassing a high-profile female bear and her three cubs.

Canmorite Gregory Berge always wondered what an earthquake might feel like. He now knows first hand, as the osteopathic manual practitioner was in Japan at the time of the Tohoku earthquake earlier this year.

A private loo built for Prince William and his wife Kate during their stay at a remote backcountry lodge in Banff National Park is causing a bit of a stink.

It’s difficult to think of biotechnology without thinking either of Dr. Frankenstein screaming “it’s alive” as his monster begins to twitch or the ubër-scientists solving all manner of crime in CSI in the time it takes to order a cheeseburger.