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On Dec. 15 Nakoda Elementary School will be hosting its Family Christmas Concert inviting guests to come around 11:45 a.m. for lunch with refreshments to be served from 12-12:45 p.m. The concert will begin at 1 p.m.

With winter comes ice-skating season, but with the warm weather also comes sketchy ice conditions.

What do C3PO, the Grinch, and Mickey Mouse have in common? They can all be found in the enormous Christmas display currently set up on Glenpatrick Court in Cochrane.

As the first wave of Syrian refugees step off planes at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Cochranites are hoping to help.

Need a Christmas tree? If you pick one up at the Cochrane Ecological Institute and Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Society (CEI) this weekend, you will be supporting moose, buffalo, elk or deer – to name a few of the animals the CEI hosts.

Santa Parade organizers are polishing up the sleigh to get ready this Saturday. The second annual Santa Parade takes flight Dec. 12 at 5 p.m. starting on Railway St. and Fifth Ave, across from Shoppers Drug Mart.

In a bid to step up their resistance to clear-cut logging in the Ghost Valley watershed, Ghost Valley residents have enlisted the support of Stoney Nakoda Nation. Stoney tribal elders held a pipe ceremony Dec.

A car theft suspect has been caught on camera in Cochrane. A vehicle was stolen from the Big Hill Leisure Pool on Nov. 25 between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.

The Cochrane Generals couldn’t have asked for a better present over the weekend as they recorded three home wins in three days to keep their pursuit of the Heritage Junior Hockey League’s (HJHL) Southern Division title on course and increase their re

Just call Cochrane’s Irwin family the poster children for carbon-monoxide (CO) detectors. Suffering from poisoning symptoms for almost four days, the entire family rushed themselves to Cochrane Urgent Care Centre on Dec.