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Wild Rose MP Blake Richards was appointed to the federal government’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Jan. 28, and will play a role in Conservative Party’s efforts to balance its books in 2015.

Around 50 people turned out for the screening of A New Warrior for Hope — a short film cast with Stoney Nation members, directed by Jason Gondziola of ycmedia.

In 2009, Devin Goss did what a lot of people always wish they could do, follow their passion. Goss is a graduate of Cochrane High School and the cofounder of BluPlanet Recycling Inc.

On January 20, 2010, Barb Castell stopped a break-in in progress at her neighbour’s home in the Millarville area. Due to her strong sense of responsibility, Castell, a former M.D.

Last fall, 19-year-old Elisa Neven-Pugh decided to take some action to make a change in her community. She sent out an email hoping to bring awareness to the issue of accessibility in Cochrane, an issue she has had to deal with herself.

The name of a deceased 22-year-old man in Morley has yet to be released. Another 22-year-old man, Gabriel Lazarus Wesley of Stoney Nakoda Nation, has been charged with ‘Failure to Stop at Scene of Accident’ under Sec. 252 of the Criminal Code.

Alberta Health Services mobile cancer screening program will be returning to Cochrane Feb. 11 – 13. The Screen Test program provides a mobile mammography screening to women in rural and remote regions of Alberta with two mobile units.

The post secondary experience is one that can change a student’s life forever – forming new friendships, gaining valuable knowledge and, unfortunately sometimes, a whole lot of student debt. Jeff O’Rourke from the Jeffery J.

When Academy Award nominees miss out on the big golden statue known as Oscar, they usually say it is just an honour to be nominated.

Although the Alberta Court of Appeal upheld the 32-month sentence handed down to Ryan Gibson, convicted of killing 17-year-old Brandon Thomas of Cochrane on Dec.