Local News

In addition to bookworms at the Cochrane Public Library, there will soon be real worms, butterflies and bees.

Residents of West Valley won the dogfight with the town Monday night after council voted to investigate an alternate area for an off-leash dog park.

It is not often high school students go on an off-campus trip for a day of pampering but that is exactly what happened last Friday.

Closing but still creating. That is what the three women who used to own and run the Baroke Design Shoppe said during the store’s last day on March 11.

Most people know the Cochrane Ecological Institute directors as Clio Smeeton and Ken Weagle but after last Saturday you can just call them, Sapio Naatu’wakik and Naatui’iini-stamiik.

A man from Morley plead guilty to manslaughter for a 2015 death last week.

The semi-annual Cochrane Food Drive is gearing up for the spring. Organizers are seeking volunteers for donating pick-ups and sorting on April 29.

Rocky View Schools (RVS) is waiting for the provincial budget to learn how the province’s proposed reduction in school fees will play out. The province tabled Bill 1: An Act to Reduce School fees on March 2.

The organizers of the first International Women’s Day forum in Cochrane are hailing it as a success after more than 230 women from around the region gathered to celebrate strength, solidarity and sisterhood.

Cochrane could have its own hospice care as part of the Bethany Care Centre expansion, depending on how plans and funding come together.