Cochrane

A rural resident less than 20 kilometres north of Cochrane on Horse Creek Rd. is sounding the alarm over a dangerous predator she believes has been killing livestock in the area since the late summer.

From evidence she has collected, Kelly Holmes believes a large predator killed four full-size cows late this summer, and more recently, a Jersey cow and their rodeo horse Bucky. She believes there may have been another recent attack on a nearby ranch.

While it may have been snowing outside Tuesday morning, it was bright and warm in Nectare & Root when CochraneNow surprised Melanie with the McCafe Coffee Break! 

Every week, 91.5 CochraneNow and Cochrane McDonald’s travel around Cochrane with treats and hot McCafe coffee, ready to surprise local businesses. 

The team at Nectare & Root were nominated here and this was attached to the nomination.

Josephine Sindani’s first memory of using a food bank is a happy one. 

She was eight years old and still adjusting to the shock of an Ottawa winter after recently moving from Halifax, where she and her mom arrived in Canada from Sudan about two years earlier. One day she saw her pregnant mother approaching their home, trudging through snow and carrying a “big bag of toys.”

Premier Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party won a fifth consecutive majority government Monday, losing in the big cities but retaining its iron grip on rural areas to secure victory.

Moe’s party was shut out by Carla Beck’s NDP in Regina and lost all but two seats in Saskatoon.

But it found enough support everywhere else to be elected in 35 seats in the 61-seat legislature, compared with 26 for the NDP.

"Thank you once again, Saskatchewan for placing your trust in our party, the Saskatchewan Party," Moe said as supporters in Shellbrook clapped and whooped.

The Bloc Québécois is poised to begin talks with other parties to bring down the minority Liberal government, which has not met its deadline to pass two key bills.

Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet set the deadline last month, putting the Liberals on notice that to avoid an election "before Christmas" they must adopt a pair of private member's bills.

One of the Bloc bills aimed at safeguarding supply management in trade negotiations has the support of the government and is being studied by the Senate.

The largest, most lavish Diwali yet was held in Cochrane, Oct. 25.

Almost 200 people socialized, enjoyed Indian cuisine and danced, danced, danced.

In the end, the battle of inches that raged on the Cobras field came down to deciding field goal kick that was just inches away from going through the upright.

The Cochrane Cobras are back on top of RVS football after a three-year hiatus with a 21-20 win over archrivals the George McDougall Mustangs.

Staff at the Rockyview Hotel report that things have been going bump in the night. 

So, is one of Cochrane’s original buildings haunted? It’s a reasonable expectation that people have died in the building over its 120-year history. 

Infrastructure minister and local MLA is introducing one of the bills hitting the floor of the Legislative Assembly this week.

The fall session of the assembly begins at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon (Oct. 28) and will see the introduction and debate of 13 bills between now and the Christmas break.

Guthrie believes the one of most interest to Albertans are the major revisions to the Alberta Bill of Rights.

RCMP in Banff are searching for a suspect after a man with a knife chased two security guards overnight. 

Mounties responded to the report of a man armed with a knife displaying aggressive behavior at around 2:30 a.m. Monday. 

Police report two security guards were patrolling near the Banff Cascade Gardens when an aggressive man emerged from a wooded area.

Upon being informed that the individuals were security personnel, the suspect brandished a knife and demanded they "prove it" before chasing them.