An astonishing trove of century-old photographs of the Rocky Mountains shows those rugged symbols of permanence and endurance are just as mutable as anything else.

National weather agency says an easterly system could produce 25 to 40 mm of rain through to Thursday evening.

Alberta's climbing community is making a push to change some controversial names for both mountains and rock climbing trails in the province.

Melting snow from the mountains and high amounts of precipitations have rivers in Calgary full, bot not overflowing, yet.

Nakoda means "friend" or "ally" in the native language of three Indigenous tribes in the area: Bearspaw, Chiniki and Wesley.

The mayor of Jasper is reminding people to stay from the town this long weekend. Visitor services are still closed along with some roads and campgrounds.

"We're known, not just here in the Kootenays, but right through B.C., Alberta, right through to Europe," said owner Eric Forbes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has walloped tourism-dependent mountain towns by cutting short what had been shaping up to be a great ski season in Western Canada.

Tour companies and hotels in destinations popular with Chinese tourists — like Alberta's mountain parks and the Northwest Territories — are starting to see cancellations.

Parks Canada scientists, who have been monitoring songbird populations since 2007, found most are doing well in Banff, Jasper, Waterton Lakes, Yoho and Kootenay national parks.