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Changes in managing waste removal are coming to Cochrane, with higher costs for businesses that don’t recycle properly. The Cochrane Eco Centre is offering a free workshop with the goal of educating business owners on how to avoid the increased fees.

Rocky View Schools (RVS) will participate in a pilot program for a new testing initiative this fall, but it’s one that has some local educators concerned.

Conservative incumbent Blake Richards did not acknowledge a question, ‘How would you ensure your government would not change the laws to suit their agenda?’ NDP candidate Joanne Boissonneault spoke over her allotted amount of time for the majority of

A harpoonist and an axe murderer walk into a bar… And get ready to rock the stage in Bragg Creek for a night of self-described “open, honest, greasy kind of soul satisfying experience.

Could you send Canada to war on the advice… of your intern? When a backbenching MP from rural Quebec finds himself the sole decider in whether Canada goes to war, he turns to his democratically savvy Haitian intern for advice in navigating the absurd

Art lovers are welcome to the Foothills Art Club annual Fall Show and Sale next weekend at the Cochrane Alliance Church. With approximately 60 artists to attend the show, there will around 200 paintings to admire or purchase and bring home Oct.

With election signs and posters plastering communities across Canada, a University of Calgary PhD student is conducting research in Cochrane and across Alberta to figure out how Albertans make sense of political imagery promoting voting.

Local youth will be partaking in a student vote Oct. 13 at Westbrook School, casting their ballot for who they believe should be Banff-Airdrie’s MP.

Cochranite Susanne McArthur placed first for female runners at Melissa's Road Race a couple of weeks ago in Banff, despite, she said, what the website tells you.

Two weeks into the e-waste recycling challenge and Holy Spirit Catholic School has already received and recycled two pallets full of electronics.