Local News

Spray Lake Sawmills’ chainsaws will remain silent after the government’s decision to halt logging in the Castle wilderness area Sept. 4.

According to NASA’s website on climate change, 97 per cent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: climate warming is very likely caused by humans.

As reported in last week’s Eagle (page 4), the bike lanes along Glenbow Drive and Railway Street are finished, but a number of people are raising doubts about their value and the decision to add them at the current locations.

Lead pastors and married couple Kyle and Brittany Hoetmer hope to start the Cause Church with the help from the community, to be opened by 2016.

Migration has begun for many species across Alberta and the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC) is asking the public to be more aware of wildlife over the next few months.

Founders of a Tanzanian school built with funding from the Lindsay Leigh Kimmett Memorial Foundation and the Rotary Club of Cochrane are asking for help in keeping the school running through a trip of a lifetime.

Cochrane cadets want your cans and bottles to help them realize their once-in-a-life-time trip to the anniversary of one of Canada’s greatest battles.

With the image of a dead Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, washing up on the shores of a Turkish beach, Dan Kazmaier of Canadian Global Response said that moment was the turning point for many Canadians. “It’s beyond sympathy, now they’re empathetic.

Dog owners are encouraged to bring their furry four-legged friends to Mitford Park this Saturday (Sept. 12) for the annual Mutt Strut.

Seniors on the Bow of Cochrane and Area will host a forum featuring all candidates for election in the federal riding of Banff-Airdrie (formerly the Wild Rose riding). The forum will occur Oct.