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A family and community resource centre will open on the Stoney Nakoda Nation later this year.

Cochrane students are literally using their heads to help.

Jessica Craig of Broken Arrow Boutique has begun to put the pieces back together after a fire that engulfed Symons Valley Ranch, home of Calgary’s only year-round farmers’ market, destroyed her shop.

The Cochrane Foundation awarded 12 non-profits with $51,803 in grants this year at the March 28 meeting at Seniors on the Bow.

A University of Calgary (U of C) study revealed this week that southern Alberta homes are testing high for radon, including Cochrane.

Additional funding from the provincial government will not be enough to cover school fees if Bill 1 is passed, according to Rocky View Schools.

Dog park advocates are hoping to present a petition with 1,000 signatures to council next month fighting for the original West Valley off-leash dog park location. Plans for that site were officially squashed last week. Coun.

A Cochrane man being retried in an incest case involving his daughter and two stepdaughters was found guilty on some of the charges and acquitted on others Wednesday.

“Heart-wrenching” and “eye-opening” is how Philip Coté describes his first trip to Cambodia. Invited on a volunteer mission with his church, the Alberta born and raised Coté was not widely travelled.

Cochrane’s MLA is part of a comprehensive review of the province’s child protection services to help streamline a system weighed down by bureaucracy. Banff-Cochrane NDP MLA Cameron Westhead is one of 11 all-party members who sits on the review panel.