The Calgary Home + Garden Show features hundreds of exhibitors showcasing products and tips for anything and everything pertaining to home improvement and enhancement.

One local company launching at the show — looking to both improve upon and enhance local backyards — is SigmaDek. Incorporated since 2008, SigmaDek offers low maintenance and lifetime warranty deck and patio products.

For many Calgarians, small town living in the big city seems to be the Holy Grail of homeownership. Combining the best of both worlds, the appeal of pairing the charm of a rural community with all the vibrancy and amenities of an urban setting is one that's tough to beat.

By following that exact recipe, with a sizable dash of quality craftsmanship, the folks at Cardel seem to have cooked up yet another winning development in Elgin Village.

The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) has announced the completion of the third phase of RiverWalk.

The pathway now stretches two kilometres along the Bow River from Centre Street Bridge through East Village and around Fort Calgary to Ninth Avenue S.E.

Calgary and Alberta's commercial markets have continued to make post recession headlines.

"The industry in Calgary has rebounded rapidly since the recession, bolstered by strong growth in employment, retail sales and investment in resource based supporting industries," said a BMO Economics commercial real estate outlook.

Calgary's West LRT was the recent recipient of two showcase awards at the Consulting Engineers of Alberta's annual awards in Edmonton.

The Calgary City News Blog reported Hatch Mott MacDonald, who served as the City's engineer on the project was recognized in both the transportation infrastructure and project management categories.

For the last three years, residents of Bowness have been turning what many see as trash into a yard and garden treasure.

The Bowness Composting Initiative stemmed from an idea from local resident Ted Woynillowicz.

"It kind of started when our kids left home and I'd retired recently and wanted to get back into gardening," he said.

The community of Kingsland is in the midst of a pilot project co-funded by The City of Calgary and the Kingsland Community Association (KCA) to spruce up the neighbourhood.

Supporting Partnerships for Urban Reinvestment, or SPUR, is an initiative that sees the public and the City working together with the goal of improving public spaces and quality of life for residents living in overlooked spaces.

The Arrowwood Community School had its grand reopening today, less than a year after being ravaged by a fire started by an arsonist in April of last year.

About 200 people gathered in the school's gymnasium to celebrate the reopening as several school board members, members of the community spoke and classes recited poems or sang songs.