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Improvements to Canmore’s Centennial Park have come in over budget. The work, which includes installation of adult exercise equipment, has resulted in an extra $84,000 of work that needs to be paid for.

A new provincial report calls for small STD clinics to be set up in Banff and Jasper following an outbreak of syphilis across Alberta. The report, released last week by Dr.

A St. Albert man received a stiff fine in provincial court on Dec. 16 for illegally hunting a whitetail deer this past October.

A week after three people lost their lives when an SUV went off the road and ended up in Kananaskis Country resevoir officials have announced a full safety review will be conducted on the entire Spray Lakes Road. On Thursday, Dec.

An incident potentially fueled by road rage sent two drivers to hospital Monday (Jan. 3) with one of those drivers possibly facing charges.

Banff council has cut $110,000 in staff wages from its 2011 operating budget and chopped two staff positions for 2012; one in planning, the other a recreation project planner.

The 90-year-old Wheeler House will be demolished this month.

Cameron Barnes and his mother Mary Jane Hammond watched in horror as an SUV lost control and flipped into the Spray Lakes Reservoir, trapping James Allan and Jennifer, Jaimie and Darrin Waugh of Calgary and Cochrane, on Dec. 30.

The Town of Banff will consider a new policy that prevents bed and breakfast owners from sitting on a licence if they are not in operation.

The fire hydrant closest to Lawrence Grassi Middle School does not meet standards required by municipal guidelines for water flow.