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For Ashton Belcher, moving to Cochrane was the opportunity she’d been waiting for.

The Town of Cochrane has lowered its proposed property tax increase for 2014 from 1.49 per cent to .34 per cent following some cuts to the draft budget during deliberations Nov. 22.

As the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan extended its global reach, the members of Cochrane’s Filipino community have decided to reach right back.

Bells will be ringing. The choir will be singing. The Cochrane Music Society (CMS) is presenting their annual CMS Christmas Concert Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m.

A troubadour with worldly scope, Fort Macleod-based singer/songwriter John Wort Hannam is the next act in line for the Cochrane Valley Folk Club (CVFC), slated for a double-bill with country-pop duo PEAR Dec. 7 at the Cochrane Alliance Church.

Following three years of mandatory silence, Dawn Griffin and her daughter are now permitted to speak. On Nov.

The investigation of a house fire rests in the hands of Cochrane RCMP after the blaze was deemed suspicious by fire investigators. The structure fire, which occurred along River Heights Drive the evening of Nov.

It’s odourless, tasteless and invisible. It’s also the second leading cause of lung cancer, next to smoking, or the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers. And it just might be reaching dangerous levels in your home without you even knowing it.

What began as ‘Cochrane’s Cowboy Christmas’, a Stu Bradley Productions venture, is shaping up to be an effort to give a local woman some relief from her harrowing experience during and after the epic June floods.

For those of us on the hunt for the perfect Christmas tree, look no further than the freshly chopped spruce up for grabs at the Cochrane Ecological Institute (CEI).