Cathy Ellis

“We’ve got one of the deadliest 50-kilometre stretches on the Trans-Canada Highway from coast to coast. I don’t see any other stretches of 50 kilometres that have nine fatalities in one year already.”

Bears euthanized after making a beeline back to Canmore just two weeks after they were relocated for bolting into a downtown restaurant.

“All three of our communities have a visitor population that surpasses our resident tax base, and so our residents currently help pay for that visitor infrastructure…we’re looking for that recognition to help take the burden off of our residents.”

“It’s exploratory in nature, and it doesn’t bind us to a path, except to open this up to a broad discussion on the possibilities and on obtaining more information and feedback."

A black bear family has been moved out of Canmore after three cubs bolted into a downtown restaurant last week and devoured bags of brown sugar.

51-year-old Scott Morrison was the first of eight people killed this year on a treacherous stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Two-month closure of the Trans-Canada Highway for twinning in Kicking Horse Canyon begins Sept. 26.

Tourism industry has voiced strong support for continuing the pedestrian zone, although there are concerns about traffic being diverted through residential neighbourhoods.

Well-known longtime Banff resident recalls being in the crowd as the Queen and her husband Prince Philip were driven along Banff Avenue.

Victims are the seventh and eighth fatalities along an untwinned stretch of highway in Yoho National Park.