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Icy conditions on the Trans-Canada Highway may be the culprit in a fatal collision on Dec. 27 that killed one and injured several others.

To safely and responsibly dispose of your Christmas trees, look no further than the Cochrane Eco Centre. Trees can be dropped off at the Eco Centre until Jan.

A Tsuu T’ina flag that had been flying at Redwood Meadows for less than three months was destroyed by vandals on Dec. 30.

Hopefully your hockey sticks are taped and your skates are sharpened, because the fifth annual Kimmett Cup is only a few weeks away.

With the cold, dark days of January up ahead, many of us are keeping our eyes focused on the bright side of things. Like the bright lights of the upcoming ATCO Gas Cochrane WinterFest Held Jan.

With the holiday season drawing to a close, it’s time for many of us to begin to dismantle the tinsel, unwind the Christmas lights and dispose of those pesky trees. In an environmentally friendly way, of course.

After a year of uncertainty as to whether their service was even wanted in Cochrane, the Rocky View Regional Handibus Society is excited to see town council more willing to cooperate in 2013.

The use of lanyards that aren’t designed to break away have been suspended from all schools in the province following an incident in Bearspaw where an eight-year-old boy was found unconscious, strangled by his school lanyard in the door of a washroom

Not everyone knows what went down on the battlefields of J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, but Cochrane’s Steven McMichael does.

Shell has donated $230,000 and solidified a partnership with the Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park Foundation (GRPPF) to launch advanced research on land reclamation practices using native grasslands.