22+ hour, 21+ min ago   (1787+ words) KANANASKIS COUNTRY – “My God, it’s quiet,” says Ted Christensen from inside his lookout on the rocky high-point of Moose Mountain. The fridge hums, the stove clicks, wind batters against the outside of his four-walled perch, reminders that up here, he…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (106+ words) BANFF – Prime Minister Mark Carney and members of the federal cabinet are in Banff for a two-day planning forum Sept. 10-11. The fall Cabinet Planning Forum brings together cabinet ministers and secretaries of state to review the federal government’s progress and…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1395+ words) The final vestiges of a campaign to attract droves of people and their skills to Alberta had all but disappeared from the UCP government’s agenda. Detractors said it had been too much, too fast, without enough planning in place to…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (467+ words) The filmmaker is at the forefront of the Nakoda AV Club’s latest project, an interpretive program with Alberta Parks that tells stories of Îethka (Stoney Nakoda) culture and their long history with Kananaskis Country. “Kananaskis, Banff, Canmore and Cochrane, there’s…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (515+ words) While white-nose syndrome can be absolutely devastating in bats, Lisa Wilkinson, a senior species at risk biologist and the provincial bat specialist with Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, says bats at most monitored sites in Alberta seem to be holding…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (959+ words) CANMORE – Bow Valley employers are struggling to fill jobs as local business leaders urge the provincial government to reconsider its refusal to join a federal measure allowing more temporary foreign workers to come here. The measure would allow eligible rural…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (129+ words) KANANASKIS – Emergency crews responded to an aircraft accident in Kananaskis Country on Saturday morning (Sept. 5). Authorities say they were called to an emergency scene around 9:20 a.m. after an aircraft reportedly crashed in the Mount McDougall area. “An aircraft was observed…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (944+ words) CANMORE — Alberta’s long-planned widening of the notoriously narrow section of Highway 1A through Îyârhe (Stoney) Nakoda First Nation remains stalled, with governments offering differing accounts of what is holding up the project. Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen said during a recent media…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (572+ words) CALGARY — Premier Danielle Smith is set to speak in Calgary on Sunday afternoon at an event marking Alberta Day. Alberta officially became a Canadian province on Sept. 1, 1905, and various festivities were planned this weekend ahead of the province's birthday on…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (628+ words) KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK – Pockets of rain overnight Thursday (Aug. 27) helped temper two small wildfires sparked by lightning in Kootenay National Park. At the same time, the fire ban in Kootenay and Yoho national parks was lifted at noon Friday (Aug....