Local News

Ghost Station is hosting its premier ‘Stuff the Stocking’ toy drive at the Hwy 1A service station, 13 km west of Cochrane.

The sounds of jingle bells are in the air in Cochrane as the annual Salvation Army Christmas Kettle Campaign gets underway.

It would seem that the odourless, tasteless and colourless gas – otherwise known as radon — is making its way onto the radar of Canadians.

The classic Christmas ballet The Nutcracker is coming to Cochrane, but with a bit of a twist.

Humans aren’t necessarily the only ones taking part in holiday cheer this season. Birds gorging on fermented mountain ash berries may not behave much differently from those celebrating Christmas cheer with an extra glass or two.

A stolen pickup truck from Cochrane was involved in an early morning rollover Nov. 25 with another stolen pickup from Innisfail. The rollover took place southbound Hwy 2, near the Hwy 567 turnoff.

Powerful art is often brought out by tensions – polarizing people and places that influence those around them. No one knows this Edmonton artist Ann Vriend.

Rocky View County’s (RVC) 2015 draft budget is calling for a 4.3 per cent property tax increase. Three per cent of the proposed rise in taxes is aimed at the county continuing to provide the same level of services as it did in 2014, while 1.

Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Banff-Airdrie (currently Wild Rose) Marlo Raynolds contacted the Eagle demanding an apology from Wild Rose MP Blake Richards following a Sun News Network story that has since been retracted by the media company.

This year, Scotty Hills made a pilgrimage, not religious one, but more spiritual, to a place that is part of his own musical journey – Detroit.