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Firefighters from the Cochrane Fire Department (CFD) assisted crews from Rocky View County Fire Services (RVCFS) to battle a grassfire north of Cochrane March 8, according to CFD Platoon Captain Jory Jenson.

The provincial government is seeking public and stakeholder input into the future of public transit across the province, and Rocky View Handibus Society’s Paul Siller is hoping users of the program will participate.

Cochrane RCMP is investigating a single-vehicle collision March 10 on Highway 1 near Range Road 33, according to Media Liaison Corporal Beth Hoskin. “We got a call at 3:20 a.m. of a single vehicle that had gone off the roadway,” she said.

First reading was given to adopt the proposed Langdon Area Structure Plan (ASP) at a Rocky View County (RVC) public hearing March 8.

Plans by a local chiropractor to build a health services building on land currently occupied by a residence and separate garage at 309 Main Street ran into a roadblock March 7 when Airdrie City council voted against approving a request to rezone the

Council unanimously approved a request from staff to move forward with implementing recycling at multi-family residences at its regular meeting March 7.

Kim Titus received a text from her son, Braden, about a week after he decided to go cold turkey off antidepressant pills. “ I'm f***** up,” the text read. “ Those pills hurt me more than they ever helped me.

The Nose Creek Park Off-Leash Area will now be known as the Airdrie Festival of Lights Society (AFOLS) Off-Leash Park after City council unanimously approved a request to rename the facility in honour of AFOLS on March 7.

The grand openings of the new schools set to accept students in Airdrie in September are one step closer after principals were confirmed by Rocky View Schools (RVS) March 1.

Airdrie City council approved a request from staff to include a revised and improved Art in Civic Spaces program as part of the Cultural Planning and proposed Civic Master Planning processes at its regular March 7 meeting.