Local News

A 29-year-old Cochrane man has pleaded guilty to four counts of criminal negligence causing death and one to criminal negligence causing bodily harm following a March 4 head-on collision on Highway 2.

It’s race year number 12 for the Cochrane Outhouse Races this Sept. 29 at 10 a.m. Event organizer Karrie Peace from local retail shop, The Heavenly Outhouse, believes this may be the biggest turnout yet — something that she attributes to the Aug.

A multitude of municipal issues were discussed at Seniors on the Bow (SOTB) during a visit from Mayor Truper McBride on Sept. 20, but none more passionately than the recently placid topic of a transit system.

The Bragg Creek Performing Arts (BCPA) 2012-13 season kicks off Sept. 29, with a double-bill headline — High River’s fingerstyle virtuoso, Calum Graham, and Edmonton’s Colleen Brown. Beginning at 8 p.m.

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.