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It was standing room only at the City council meeting on April 20 as a number of parents and children turned up to hear first reading of an amendment to a land use bylaw to re-zone a parcel of land in the Kingsview Industrial Park to accommodate a pr

Residents in Acme are flying high after receiving a letter from the Minister of Municipal Affairs (MA) on April 10, stating the preliminary review conducted by the department in January will result in an inspection into the operations of the Village.

Former Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate Jamie Lall, CEO of Calgary Housing and Employment Services, is back in the race to represent Chestermere-Rocky View as MLA.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating after a freight train operated by Canadian National (CN) Rail derailed near Highway 9 and the villages of Irricana and Kathyrn on April 10 at approximately 10 a.m.

Coral Bliss Taylor will seek to represent Chestermere-Rocky View as MLA when the next general election is held on May 5. She said the Green Party presented an opportunity for voters to choose an alternative.

wo applications to close portions of un-built road allowance were denied by Rocky View County (RVC) council on April 14.

Editors note: Though all Rocky View County candidates were contacted, not all responded by press time. Please note, some of the answers have been edited for length.

Following an in-depth, two-year review, Rocky View County (RVC) administration recommended to council on April 14 that the process to develop the proposed Balzac West Area Structure Plan (BWASP) be discontinued.

The City of Chestermere’s youth council, Youth Encouraging Lasting Leadership (YELL), is hosting an All Candidates Forum for Chestermere–Rocky View on April 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Chestermere Recreation Centre’s main hall.

A multi-vehicle collision claimed the life of a Cochrane man in his 40s at approximately 7:25 a.m. on April 15, according to Cochrane RCMP Media Liaison Constable Mel Calahasen.