Canmore News

Pam Doyle/Canmore Leader The site of the old LGMS school has been seeded and landscaped and will be a playing field once the grass grows.

RCMP in Canmore are investigating the discovery of a body in the Bow River. Krista Rutel and three members of her family were taking a leisurely float down the river through the scenic Rocky Mountain community west of Calgary, when they decided to pull onto a shelf of rocks for a barbecue.

“Early in the 1900s there were two brothers who were living in Dead Man’s Flats and one of the brothers started to complain about hearing weird mechanical noises through the walls so - what I assume from what I read was that he was maybe schizophrenic, or he had a mental problem in that way - but he wound up killing his brother with an axe.

Hamish MacLean/Canmore LeaderJack Hanna and his crew shoot at Mount Engadine Lodge in Kananaskis Country Sunday.

An Edmonton researcher who was recently awarded a $300,000 grant to find ways to halt the spread of the mountain pine beetle thinks current efforts to try and contain the pest may be futile.

A lot of Calgarians indulge in the odd spa treatment now and then. Some do it completely guilt-free, while others do it with a long list of justifications to their partner about how that seaweed wrap is their reward for a month’s worth of driving the carpool, or how without perfectly manicured feet a girl could really risk losing her job.

Reid Shellian was last seen on his mountain bike on Sunday morning. The RCMP in Canmore, Alta., are looking for a 19-year-old who was reported missing by his parents on Wednesday morning.

Pam Doyle/Canmore LeaderSkateboarder Kyle Lambert takes a long look at the construction at the new Canmore skate park on Saturday.

Destination weddings don’t have to take place in the tropics. For a different take on destination weddings, just look North.

After several moves and temporary locations, the ground was broken on the permanent home of the Bow Valley Food Bank on Monday.

On the driving range at Stewart Creek golf course near Canmore, Alberta. Photograph by: Curtis Stock, Edmonton Journal Founded as a railway stop in 1883, but which really began life as a coal mining town, is one of the golf world’s rare meccas: the town of Canmore.

On the driving range at Stewart Creek golf course near Canmore, Alberta. Photograph by: Curtis Stock, Edmonton Journal Founded as a railway stop in 1883, but which really began life as a coal mining town, is one of the golf world’s rare meccas: the town of Canmore.

On the driving range at Stewart Creek golf course near Canmore, Alberta. Photograph by: Curtis Stock, Edmonton Journal Founded as a railway stop in 1883, but which really began life as a coal mining town, is one of the golf world’s rare meccas: the town of Canmore.

A new crop of graduates in Canmore is facing a challenge that many face today, but these graduates are facing it differently.

This summer’s parks productions in Canmore will reach their halfway point with a new story to tell this week.

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Two Calgary men face sex-related charges for allegedly having sex with teenage girls in Banff over the weekend, RCMP say.

Whether a Lethbridge-based company is sending workers to Fort McMurray or the company president volleys between Edmonton and Calgary on a weekly basis, carbon-saving corporate travel solutions can work for any Alberta business.