Local News

Can you put a value on the watersheds and land in rural Alberta? The answer to that question will be on the docket at the 23rd annual general meeting of Action for Agriculture, held on Feb. 15 at the Cochrane RancheHouse.

While many of us may be able to sense a shift in the weather and climate, it can be difficult for the concept of climate to be fully realized. Cochranites can see climate change in action at the Cochrane Movie House on Feb.

Business as usual continues at Don and Shirley Begg’s Studio West Bronze Foundry and Art Gallery, following the Feb. 3 fire at the two-storey building on Cochrane’s Second Avenue East.

The Ghost Stewardship Monitoring Group (GSMG) will be holding an open house for a public viewing of a number of organizations with an interest in the Ghost Waiparous region. Hosted by the group, the information session with take place on Feb.

The Watoto Children’s Choir, from Uganda, Africa, will be bringing their heart-warming international tour to Cochrane. The event will see a complete transformation of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church for the Feb.

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.