Canmore News

Few have heard of disc golf, let alone played it. It is a pastime that has been ignored by most athletes and sports fanatics, so much so that finding a disc golf basket in a park would be a thoroughly confusing experience for many.

A rock slide closed Highway 742, also known as Spray Lakes Road, near Canmore. A rock weighing several tonnes slid down the scree slope and ended up on the highway.

The lawyer for the former owner-director of a Canmore daycare centre who was acquitted last month of allegedly assaulting seven children says his client will seek legal costs from the Crown relating to her criminal prosecution and trial.

Four young people face numerous charges after a weekend crime spree that began in the Alberta town of Banff and came to an end in Canmore.

Born and raised on Canada's east coast, Ryan moved progressively westward looking for the adventures that have defined his photography for the past decade.

A public hearing set for Wednesday in Canmore to discuss the Three Sisters development has been delayed after a request from PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., the receiver on the project.

Calgary police are investigating after a handgun was found in a back alley in the city's northwest following a reported break and enter.

Over the next year the paved trail - thanks to a $4.35-million investment - will connect the Banff National Park East Gate to the Travel Alberta Visitor Information Centre in Canmore.

The Bomber Command Museum in Nanton, Alta., will be holding a special 70th anniversary commemoration on Saturday for a top secret bombing raid in the Second World War and honour an Albertan who is a surviving member of the crew.

"Young families and thousands of people running across the Trans-Canada to get to the trail head, it just has been a very worrisome thing," he said.

The MacEwan Griffins women's basketball team plays the Mount Royal Cougars in Alberta Collegiate Athletics Conference play in March 2012.

A fear of human-bear conflicts is partly contributing to the declining numbers of grizzlies in the province, former Banff National Park superintendent Kevin Van Tighem argues.

Mount Rundle as captured in 1949 by Walter J. Phillips, an artist who came for a visit and stayed 20 years.

A documentary chronicling a year in the life of Edmonton's first family of Celtic folk has been nominated for an Alberta Film and Television Award.