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The youth suspect accused of attempted murder for shooting a German tourist in August has been granted bail. The decision was delivered by Justice Peter Barley today in Calgary Provincial Court.

For not the first time, the Cochrane Ecological Institute (CEI) received a surprising email from a research team a world away from their rural Alberta property.

Our primary goal as a humane society is to find homes for the hundreds of homeless companion animals we care for each year. Our wish for all of them is a long, wonderful life in a loving home.

Arriving in Bamyan, I knew there was a large number of Free to Run Afghan girls who would be running their first marathon and I wondered how I could help.

Megan Houde is one Cochranite who has seen the potential in the booming legal cannabis business and has lit into the budding industry.

Members of the Stoney Nakoda Nation voted against the land designation for a second time. What does this mean for our community? Land designation is done under the First Nations Land Management Act.

Need to return your bottles without actually going to the bottle depot? There's now an app for that. SkipTheDepot was launched by a Calgary-based software engineer, Thomas Gayef, and now its services are expanding to Cochrane.

With her hair swept back in braids and wearing regalia for the first time, 14-year-old Belle Kootenay nervously followed the others onto the dance floor for the grand entry.

All that Malic Elhommossany wanted was for his mom, Jacki, to push him in a swing.

Looking for homes to trick or treat at while giving to a good cause, there are at least two such spooky locations in town.