Local News

The Town of Cochrane is going to be speaking with Rocky View County (RVC) about pumping water out of Cochrane Lake and funneling it into Horse Creek, which the county has been forced to do each spring and summer to avoid flooding in the area.

The Arts and Culture Foundation of Cochrane (ACFC) will be hosting their annual general meeting at the Cochrane RancheHouse (second floor) on Nov. 27 from 6-9 p.m. this year.

Driving west along Highway 1A, where the land of the Wesley band of the Stoney Nakoda Nation was once open and expansive, one can now see a temporary community set up.

Affordable childcare and housing. Family of origin. Education.

For more than three years, The Sweet Lowdown has been winning the hearts of bluegrass and old-time music lovers with their three-part harmonies and fingerpicking antics.

An owner of a Cochrane-based taxi company is looking for answers after one of his drivers was slapped with a hefty ticket for picking up Cochrane passengers in Calgary in an effort to return them to their home.

With November earmarked as Financial Literacy Month, Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta (JASA) is getting into the spirit of things — bringing their money and business focused programming into Cochrane area schools.

Retired Sgt. John Cotton of the British Army 8th Kings Irish Hussars is living proof that a war he fought some 60 years ago never leaves the memory of anyone who survives combat.

Rocky View County’s (RVC) newly-elected council members were sworn in at the Organization Meeting held at the County Office Oct. 29.

For the second year running, the Friends of Mitford Education Society will be throwing its fundraising gala. This year, the students of Mitford School will be providing the entertainment for the aptly named Snowman Stomp Gala.