After a 16-day long meeting of council and a marathon public hearing, Calgary's city council has voted in favour of changing the city's land use bylaw to rezone residential areas for higher-density housing.

The towns council unanimously passed a motion on Monday to hold a vote of the electorate on August 12, where residents will choose whether or not they support councils decision to close off a section of Banff Avenue to traffic every year from the May long weekend to Thanksgiving long weekend.

Just over a decade since its inaugural event, the second Blackfoot Archaeology Conference, called Ksaahkommitapii, meaning "spirit of the ground" in the Blackfoot language, wrapped up on Saturday, after two days of collaboration and consultation between conference-goers and member tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy.