Having a heart attack is scary. Having it deep in the backcountry is downright frightening.
On a July weekend, Steve Hyde, 53, came down to the Pass with his daughters Brooke, 11, and Kelsey, 10. The Calgary family was planning a dirt biking trip to see a large aircraft that [...]

As a very young man, Junior Olsen learned that he could take a punch.
He was also pretty good at giving them. So at the age of 12 he started training under his first coach Blair Orr, a man who taught him the art of fighting and its associated philosophy of [...]

On Thursday night a sign in Blairmore’s Lion’s Park was vandalized says Don Harvey, president of the Blairmore Lions Club.
Harvey says [...]

There’s a fine line between keeping an RV on lawfully purchased land and using it as a primary residence.
That line gets crossed surprisingly often in Crowsnest Pass, says council.
On Aug. 23 a delegation of concerned landowners made [...]

Imagine, you’re a 60-year old man and your physician tells you that you have epilepsy.
All of a sudden you’re stripped of a driver’s licence, you’re more-or-less [...]

Lately all over Facebook I see the 22 Push Up Challenge where people commit to do 22 pushups for 22 days to raise awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
I am thrilled that [...]

Since the 1990s, South African born physician Dr. Johann Maritz has owned and operated the Mountainside Medical Clinic out of the former Alberta Hotel on main street in Blairmore.
Then in the spring of 2015, facing over 20 criminal charges, Maritz surrendered [...]

Ezra had a family emergency so I was given the task of covering council last week.
The gallery was packed with people, really upset business people, some of whom saw a [...]

The head of the company building the community’s swimming pool says the new design will allow everyone from tots to the elderly to get their feet wet.
Brett Dyregrov, project manager with Western Recreation, told the [...]

On August 12, Benga Mining Ltd. submitted an updated environmental impact assessment and remaining applications for its proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Project to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER).
The package sent to [...]

After retiring about a year ago from a decades-long career as a heavy-duty mechanic, Randy Trotter discovered that he’s [...]