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Okotoks’ first retail cannabis store is missing just one thing – marijuana. Micro Gold opened on Dec.

A house near Millarville is burnt, but intact, after fire ripped through it Wednesday morning. Fire crews responded to a structure fire on 240 Street West at around 11 a.m. Jan. 9 to find the walkout basement engulfed in flames.

A retired rancher with decades of adventures in and out of the saddle has put more colourful ranching stories on paper before they’re lost forever.

Some Foothills residents are wearing yellow on Saturday mornings to raise awareness about the struggling Alberta economy. There were five people standing in front of Okotoks town office at 11 a.m. on Jan.

Town council opened the door for more affordable housing in Okotoks while at the same time helping women who have faced abuse.

The Highwood MLA spent 2018 battling the governing party, but ended the year wondering what his political future is. Carbon tax might have been the biggest issue for Highwood constituents to swallow.

If all two preschoolers wanted for Christmas was their two front teeth, hopefully they got them. They more than deserved it.

Long before an original founder of the Okotoks Junior A hockey team helped bring the squad to the Foothills, he had Oilers’ green-and-gold flowing through his veins.

An Okotoks convenience store was robbed in the early hours of Jan. 3. The suspect demanded money from the till and merchandise from a clerk at the 7-Eleven at 235 Milligan Drive at approximately 3 a.m.

It’s been a year of hard work and new challenges for Foothills County. Reeve Larry Spilak said the municipality takes everything in stride and works through issues as they arise.