Local News

An intense winter storm hit much of southern Alberta Dec. 2 and 3, blanketing the county in a thick layer of snow.

Rocky View County has filed an application for a judicial review against the firefighters’ union (Local 4794) and the Alberta Labour Relations Board following the board’s decision that found the County in breach of an Alberta labour law.

Following three years of mandatory silence, Dawn Griffin and her daughter are now permitted to speak. On Nov.

Rocky View County (RVC) has hired a new fire chief to fill the position vacated by Ken McMullen in February. Randy Smith will begin his position with the County’s Fire Services on Jan.

Two vehicles were stolen from a pair Cochrane residences at Bencroft Place in the east end of town between the hours of 11 p.m. Dec. 1 and 6 a.m. on Dec. 2.

The numbers are in from the Rocky View Schools (RVS) Annual Education Results Report for the 2012 to 2013 school year and satisfaction with the division is up for student, staff and parents.

Former Airdrie teacher John Christopher Miller was sentenced by Judge John D. Bascom to 28 months in prison for sexual exploitation on Nov. 29 in Airdrie Provincial Court.

With near white-out conditions, 17 centimetres (cm) of snow and wind gusts of up to 70 km/hr: it was the weather event that crippled Airdronianís commute and found them digging out from the seasonís first major storm.

Airdrie city council discussed first readings on a pair on land use bylaws, Dec. 2, defeating one and approving another. The first, Bylaw B-30/2013 was a proposed amendment to a lot north of Highland Park, east of Highway 2.

A 42-year-old man from Red Deer was charged with distracted driving after he was observed watching a movie on a laptop while driving on Highway 2. On Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m.