Local News

Parkinson Alberta Society (PAS), in partnership with Parkinson Society Canada, is hosting one of its many fundraisers in Cochrane, Sept. 11.

Time is running out for Rocky View residents to provide input into the draft recommendations of the County’s Agricultural Master Plan (AMP).

As the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly draws to a close, one of its directors has taken his own organization to task on respecting its No. 1 commodity: farmers.

Father and son team Bill and Brad Lamport know their beef.

It was 2000 and a wide-eyed brunette named Anita was a young, single, American woman. The Independence, Miss., native just relocated to Utah to attend Brigham Young University’s fitness and nutrition program.

Rocky View Schools’ (RVS) trustees held their first meeting after a two-month summer hiatus, Aug. 18.

A 26-year-old Airdrie woman gave birth in her car on Highway 2 near Balzac, Aug. 20 at about 9 p.m.

On Aug. 15, Airdrie Rural and Beiseker RCMP uncovered a cache of stolen farm equipment worth about $500,000 on Darrin James’s rural property on Highway 566 and Range Road 20 near Balzac.

After months of renovations, the Plainsmen Arena will not be open in time for the start of the 2011-12 season. With an expected opening date of Oct. 31, the delay of three weeks will leave ice user groups in a lurch.

Airdrie will not be instituting a curbside recycling program despite similar programs being implemented in Calgary and Cochrane Cochrane officially launched its curbside program Aug.