Local News

Rocky View County (RVC) council voted down a motion by Coun. Jerry Arshinoff to update the county’s media policy at a meeting Feb. 28, by a vote of 1-7.

The Liberal government released the federal budget Feb. 27, one that is being touted as “modest” with major themes that included gender equality and Indigenous issues.

Planning for the opening of new schools in Cochrane and Airdrie in September 2017 is well underway, according to Rocky View Schools (RVS) Superintendent of Schools Greg Luterbach.

Grade 2 and 3 students at Prairie Waters Elementary School in Chestermere are involved in an innovative program intended to ignite their passions and get them thinking critically and interacting with their communities.

Duane Redelback, 48, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty Feb. 23 to the lesser charge of manslaughter in connection with the 2006 death of his common-law wife, Airdrie resident Ruth Degayo.

Airdrie’s first responders are responding to the growing opioid crisis, but carrying the antidote naloxone – also known as narcan – isn’t anything new, according to EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux. “EMS has always carried narcan.

Four inmates have been charged with assault after convicted triple murderer Douglas Garland was allegedly attacked at the Calgary Remand Centre Feb. 17, just hours after being sentenced in Calgary Court of Queen’s Bench.

Insp. Gordon Sage, who has been the officer in charge (OIC) of the Airdrie RCMP detachment for the past three-and-a-half-years, has accepted a promotion that will see him transferred out of Airdrie.

If approved by Alberta Education, the ward boundaries for Rocky View Schools (RVS) will be changing in time for the October election. The board of trustees approved a bylaw for the revised ward boundaries Feb. 16 at a special meeting.

An innovative program at R.J. Hawkey Elementary School is teaching students in kindergarten about the importance of kindness and spreading kindness throughout the school and beyond.