Local News

Tucked above MacKay’s Ice Cream in Cochrane’s historic downtown, sits the newly opened Café Roubaix Bicycle Studio. The boutique is the brainchild of Cochrane newcomers Dan and Rita Richter, and aims to appeal to performance-level road bikers.

The eight-year-old girl who was struck by a semi truck Feb. 25 at a crosswalk in Cremona is doing “pretty good,” said Const. Danielle Morrison of Didsbury RCMP.

Bragg Creek’s restaurant scene is cooking with the addition of one new player and two restaurateurs who have added some new spice to existing establishments in the last two months.

A 47-year-old woman from Stoney Nakoda First Nation is dead following a single vehicle crash that occurred on Highway 1 Feb. 26.

Music fans and humanitarians alike will be coming together for an evening of good tunes and good causes for March 2’s Rockin’ in the Rockyview. Hosted by Vision Financial Inc.

An exhibit portraying the history behind Canada’s residential school system will be on display at Rocky View Schools’ (RVS) Education Centre in Airdrie from March 4-19.

Cochranites should get their minds and bodies in peak condition and ready for the first annual Capital One Race for Kids Cochrane.

Rocky View County Fire Services began to discuss a new contract with the county through the arbitration process on Feb. 24.

Cochrane’s Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre is slated to host the One Rock music festival, a Christian celebration that organizers expect to bring about 5,000 people to town.

On March 2, the Cochrane Alliance Church will be rocking to the acoustic sounds of singer songwriter, Hayes Carll. “Well, I don’t juggle or do impressions — I should probably get that out there straight away,” wrote Carll in an email.