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Off-duty Cochrane firefighters are looking to the generosity of the community to remember and feed those less fortunate in between holiday seasons.

Our residents come in all shapes and sizes. They are small and large, friendly and shy, young and old and all are deserving of a home and family that loves them and keeps them safe. The road to adoption can be short or long.

Year six for the Cochrane Fair is just around the corner, with organizers excited for another weekend jam-packed with events Aug. 17-19.

One Tuesday afternoon last fall, Heidi Rousseau was attending a Bible gathering for moms. It was there that the course of her life in the months and the year ahead would completely alter.

The “little white church,” or the McDougall Stoney Mission Church, a landmark that was once a quintessential Alberta scene has lain in heaps of rubble, ash and charcoal for more to a year following a fire caused by arson in May 2017.

A break in the rope system used by a Cochrane climber was said to be the cause of a fall from a steep mountainside leading to the climber's death, according to Kananaskis Public Safety (KPS). On Sunday evening, around 3:30 p.m.

After hot, dry temperatures recently, Chief David Humphrey of the Cochrane Fire Services issued a fire advisory which will take effect as of 5 p.m. Tuesday evening.

A 28-year-old man from Cochrane has been identified as the victim of a climbing accident at Mount Yamnuska on Sunday afternoon. At around 3:30 p.m. RCMP responded to a call of two climbers in distress while hiking east of Canmore.

A vehicle that caught fire can be blamed for the backed up traffic Wednesday afternoon on Highway 22. A man's truck caught fire while driving towards Bragg Creek.

A defective tank is to blame for contaminated gas that damaged a number of vehicles filling up at the new Centex Gas Station in Bearspaw last week. Lab results determined the gas was contaminated.