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Banff’s development permit activity was at a five-year high in 2015.

A new study looking at the causes of wildlife attacks shows about half the encounters were a result of inappropriate human behaviour. The study, published last week in the online journal Nature.

The owners of an unfinished golf course in Canmore will no longer pursue completing the development and are instead looking for community input on how the lands should be used instead.

The Banff Hockey Academy female squad will have a full regular season starting in 2016-17.

Banff politicians have adopted a new policy to clarify and make it clearer when the Canadian flag can be lowered on solemn days of mourning.

It’s a place of healing, reflection, solitude, contemplation and worship and its doors are once again open and welcoming at Banff Mineral Springs Hospital.

The Stewart Creek Golf Course at last has a conservation easement in place covering a buffer area between its greens and the nearby Three Sisters wildlife corridor designated by the province.

The doctor has left the building. Dr. Heidi Schroter has spent more than two and a half decades at the Stoney Health Centre, working closely with families and children as a regularly visiting pediatrician, and she just retired.

The webcast video recording of a January council meeting that included the controversial decision to approve rezoning of land in the Peaks of Grassi has been accidentally deleted.

Banff politicians are taking a closer look at the municipality’s snow removal policy in a bid to do a better job of clearing snow and ice in certain areas, including those frequently used by seniors.