Local News

An area contractor is under investigation for allegedly defrauding at least nine families of an estimated combined $500,000 over the past year-and-a-half. Kieron Warren operates KREATE Cabinets.

Fish out of water were happy to return to the Big Hill Leisure Pool as of Sept. 24, with the annual shutdown, which took place Sept. 1-23, finally reaching its end.

The first phase of development for the Rocky View County (RVC) Plan is now complete, and the upkeep of the region’s roadways tops the priority list for most county residents.

It’s the final countdown for Cochranites to donate their pennies to the local ‘Ton of Pennies’ initiative.

The Chinook Film Group movie aficionados welcome the warmth of fall and the arrival of Alberta Arts Days this Sept. 28 with their premier screening of the 2012-13 season, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.

Daniel Tschetter, the 55-year-old Cochrane cement-truck driver who was convicted of killing five people in a 2007 collision in Calgary, was granted day-parole on Sept. 19 after serving three years of his five-and-a-half-year sentence.

It was a full house at the Cochrane High School Lyceum Sept.

For Nova Scotia’s fresh-faced pop-folkie, Mo Kenney, the time is now to venture into new territories and play the music that has culminated through a multitude of influences.

He’s here for a good time and a long time.

Wild Rose MP Blake Richards and his Conservative government are making efforts to stop what they have seen as numerous attempts to gain Canadian citizenship by fraudulent measures.