Local News

Property assessments in Cochrane went up an average of six per cent for the 2016 assessment year, with some areas in town going up a lot more.

If it's on fire, you can be sure the Cochrane Generals are nearby. First their chartered team bus burned. They followed that up with a barn-burner in Game 5 of the Heritage Junior Hockey League Southern Division final.

Bearspaw Christian School (BCS) Secondary Drama is presenting No Signs of Intelligent Life by Bryan Starchman from March 17-19. The shows begin 7 p.m. each night.

Gunshots rang out at the Muslim cemetery just east of Cochrane off Highway 1A on Friday afternoon March 11. Four men were injured in the shooting which occurred around 3:35 p.m. during a funeral service at the cemetery.

The Sue & Martin Parnell Playground has been completed in the village of Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania, Africa. Not only was a playground provided, but also a giant bouncy castle and classroom resources for the Lindsay Kimmett Kindergarten.

Rocky View County council, at its Feb. 23 meeting, unanimously approved a subdivision on land located immediately east of Lower Springbank Road and west of Range Road 25. The application creates a four-acre parcel with a 14.

New research suggests the American pika living high in the mountains of Alberta is very vulnerable to a changing climate – but there’s hope they won’t be at risk of disappearing as previously thought.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Tsuut’ina Nation just outside of Calgary on March 5 for a special event. Both he and the Assembly of First Nations National Chief, Perry Bellegarde, received honorary headdresses from the First Nation.

With an unusually warm winter comes safety concerns. After two vehicles broke through the ice at Ghost Lake during the first two weeks of March, officials are urging that everyone practices caution during the early spring.

Rocky View County (RVC) Coun. Jerry Arshinoff said he was suspicious about the way the county was handling the possible sales of the Cochrane ag society ground.