Local News

While reaction to the NDP’s first provincial budget is mixed in the public domain, elected community leaders are praising it for ensuring stable funding for schools and municipalities.

Some Springbank Community High School students and staff just returned from the school’s first field trip to Japan.

Two people have been killed and five others are injured following a single-vehicle rollover at the weigh scales on the Trans-Canada Highway near Hermitage Road on April 20.

The Stop Bully Organization is hosting second annual charity fundraiser Keep it in the Ring II at the Texas Gate Bar & Grill on April 19.

One man is celebrating a lifetime spent in this ever-changing town. As of this year, Gordon Davies will have spent 75 years, his entire life, living in Cochrane.

Legendary guitarist Amos Garrett is returning to the Legacy Guitar and Coffee House on April 15. According to his biography on his website, he is revered as one of the top guitar players in Alberta.

A trip across Europe next year will bring Cochrane’s cadets a little closer to one of the world’s most brutal times in history.

The husband and wife duo accused of murdering former Cochranite Ryan Lane are denying involvement in the man’s death, claiming the husband’s brother took matters into his own hands.

Stoney residents in Morley are still living in interim housing almost three years after the flood. “Sometimes it feels like the band forgot about us,” said one concerned resident who wished to remain anonymous. “It seems like nothing is being done.

In collaboration with the Town of Cochrane’s Family and Community Support Services (FCSS), the Canada Revenue Agency is running the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program for the 2017 tax season.