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After more than two years of effort, Airdrie City council gave final reading to the Community Standards Bylaw (CSB), Dec. 17.

City council approved an offsite levy bylaw Dec. 17. Developers will now pay an average of $73,854 per acre for levies and recreation contributions to help pay for necessary infrastructure, such as roads, water and sewer in new neighbourhoods.

Money is starting to roll in for the Bert Church Live Theatre expansion project, which is expected to start sometime in the new year. On Dec.

City council unanimously approved an application that will see 34 acres of land in King’s Heights redesignated from large lot single-family and multi-family homes to residential small and narrow lot homes.

The use of lanyards that aren’t designed to break away have been suspended from all schools in Airdrie following an incident in Bearspaw where an eight-year-old boy was found unconscious, strangled by his school lanyard hooked on the door of a washro

Cochrane RCMP have made arrests in connection to an armed robbery that occurred at the Late Hours Liquor Store in Cochrane on Nov. 29.

For the fifth year in a row, Rocky View County is offering an exchange program for people recycling their Christmas tree.

Irricana council is asking the minister of Municipal Affairs (MA) to extend the appointment of the Town’s official administrators from their planned Dec. 31 monitoring until March 1.

Wastewater rates could soar 514 per cent for a development located in Wheatland County that receives wastewater servicing from Rocky View County.

On Dec. 17 The Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation announced a $230,000 partnership with Shell to create the Shell Foothills Fescue Research Institute at the Glenbow Ranch Park, located between Calgary and Cochrane along the Bow River.