Police Beat

RCMP asks motorists to avoid the area where there is a collision involving five semi trucks.

“Further interviews have since determined the cause of the incident was unwitnessed therefore the cause cannot be confirmed. Visibility in the couloir was poor that day.”

Have you seen Mary Lauren Wesley?

“A single member of a party of three on the Aemmer Couloir of Mount Temple was hit by a sluff from the rock face above the couloir and knocked off his feet while cramponing.”

UPDATED: Cochrane RCMP have located and reported this person safe. 

Golden-Field RCMP received two alerts from emergency satellite communication devices earlier this week – one for cliffed out skiers and another for snowmobile fatality

“Consistently throughout my career, if you go out to find impaired drivers, you will sadly find impaired drivers.”

“Officers attended and determined that the suspect vehicle had struck two vehicles, one of which was a Town of Banff pickup truck."

UPDATED: This person has been located safe, according to an RCMP news release. 

“There are some signs of positivity in Banff in that we do have crimes against persons going down slightly; it’s very slight,” said Staff Sgt. Mike Buxton-Carr, detachment commander for Banff RCMP.