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As of Monday, Albertans will face harsher roadside consequences for impaired driving The Alberta Government has put its new Impaired Driving Law into effect April 9.

Two students from St. Timothy Jr. Sr. High School got to show off their shop class expertise while competing against their Calgary and area counterparts.

It was a tense evening at The Redwood House Tuesday night as the community gathered to discuss the inflated cost of a proposed plan to bring fibre optic network to the townsite.

Not bad for a potlicker from Blackie.

River Heights area residents will soon have a commercial shopping district to call their own.

A newly appointed judge opened up about her Cochrane roots and how rural living had a sway on her career. On April 4, former Cochrane student L. Bernette Ho was appointed judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in Calgary.

Only a week after Santa Claus Parade organizer Mick Gee announced he would be stepping away from the event another organization has stepped up to take the reins.

The children who were rushed by ambulance from a home near Morley are in the care of relatives while Stoney Nakoda Child Services investigates the circumstances that left one child dead.

A former mayor of Waiparous was the victim of a break and enter confrontation over the weekend, an event which he said highlights the often slow RCMP response time for rural residents. At around 2:30 a.m.

Conservative Cochranites looking to dig their teeth into local United Conservative Party (UCP) grassroots opportunities are encouraged to make their way down to the Cochrane Legion at 9 a.m. on April 14.