Local News

The Town of Cochrane announced a Level 2 fire ban, citing the dry and windy weather conditions as a potential hazard.

Voting for the Cochrane Eagle’s second annual Best Of Cochrane event will kick off at 7 a.m. today (April 24). Click here to register your votes.

According to the Rocky View Teachers Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) Local 35, the diverse needs of all students are not being supported adequately in “unmanageable classroom sizes.

The Cochrane Arts Club (CAC) is celebrating 55 years as a community art group at its Annual Show and Sale this May 3-4 at the Cochrane RancheHouse. The main event for the club runs from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Snow may be disappearing from the rolling fields surrounding Cochrane, but the outlook for spring planting remains up in the air, according to a Southern Alberta agronomist.

Legacy Guitar and Coffee House is the May 3 stop for Vancouver roots collective, the Wooden Horsemen, as they showcase their premier seven-track, self-titled debut along their cross-country tour.

The sidewalks of Cochrane’s historic downtown will be bustling with shoppers — all armed with a map of local businesses and a list of hot deals. Walk & Shop Cochrane is set to hit town for the third time May 6, starting bright and early with a 9 a.m.

Ryan Jordan Gibson, the man who pleaded guilty to killing Brandon Thomas while driving impaired, will be sentenced May 12. The 24-year-old Calgary man, along with Brandon’s friends and family, crowded into a Calgary courtroom April 16 for sentencing.

The ‘Elbow River Headwaters Flood Mitigations Proposals’ event was held at Redwood House April 16 and saw an impressive turnout of more than 80 Bragg Creek and area residents.

Wild Rose MP Blake Richards will officially be the Conservative Party nominee for in the next federal election in the newly-named federal riding of Banff-Airdrie.