Local News

Cochranites are no more than two clicks away from the information they desire with the Town of Cochrane’s new and improved website.

Newsstands across the country were dominated with headlines about the June flooding in Alberta. And here in Cochrane, it was no different. The Cochrane Eagle’s news story of the year for 2013 is: the Alberta flood.

A 51-year-old woman is dead as a result of a head-on collision that occurred south of Cochrane on Christmas Day.

Cochrane dog and cat owners may have noticed an additional form mailed to them in December, along with their reminder to pay their animal licensing fees by end of January.

Since their 2011 beginnings, Cochrane’s Chicago blues four-piece the Smoking Aces have grown their weekly rehearsals to some 40 gigs and a handful of festivals per annum.

Two Cochrane schools from the Rocky View School (RVS) division will be receiving five new modular (portable) classrooms this fall.

It may fall on a Tuesday night, but that doesn’t mean that Cochrane partygoers will be without a bash this New Year’s Eve. Before you put on your dancing shoes, check out this round up of celebratory parties happening at local watering holes.

A fire at Cochrane High School (CHS) forced students to be evacuated to Manachaban Middle School and the Cochrane Arena Dec. 19.

Typically this time of year, Jamie McDonald would be among family, sitting down to enjoy a traditional English roast dinner.

Beginning Jan. 13, Wild Rose MP Blake Richards will hold a series of pre-budget consultation meetings across his constituency to seek public input for the federal government’s 2014 budget.