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Following Alberta’s Economic Summit in Calgary over the weekend, Cochrane mayor Truper McBride said he believed the non-partisan event made significant strides toward finding a way for the provincial government to collect and utilize taxpayer money m

The portfolio of Cochrane photographer, Caroline Connolly, is full of eye candy. Whether you have a penchant for horses, a prairie landscape or playful portraits, the images created by Connolly do not go unnoticed.

A nearly $25,000 fire services bill sent out by Rocky View County should never had been sent out at all, according to County Reeve Rolly Ashdown.

Council members heard from two ranchers who border the Fireside development with regards to the proposed fence that will be erected to separate the development from their lands.

Spray Lake Sawmills’s (SLS) bid to gain approval under the Rainforest Alliance’s Smartwood Program continues to move forward, with a second application possibly being submitted sometime this spring.

With a cheque for a cool $10,000 in their pocket, it looks like the funding for the Cochrane and District Warm Water Therapy Pool Society’s pool at the new aquatic centre is off to a good start.

For the first time since 1993, Rocky View County council and the Town of Cochrane council entered into a recreation cost-sharing agreement.

The Calgary businessman who owns the property on which the former Husky gas station stood in Bragg Creek says he plans to start rebuilding this spring. “We’re finally just about ready to get rolling,” Ralph Woessner of Capital Ideas Ltd.

Located northwest of the the booming city of Calgary, just north of Cochrane, the village of Cremona may seem a little off the beaten path.

Redwood Meadows Emergency Services (RMES) was the recipient of a late Christmas gift on Feb. 5 with a new rescue truck unveiled and put into service.