Local News

A popular annual event spanning nearly two decades promises to bring local businesses face-to-face with potential customers.

Okotoks RCMP are investigating after a 43-year-old man was killed in a single vehicle collision at night on April 23. At approximately 10:38 a.m. RCMP responded to a single-vehicle rollover on Big Rock Trail west of Okotoks.

An Okotoks art gallery was dealt a crippling blow by a ransomware virus, resulting in the loss of important computer files and its archive of images by award-winning artist Bernie Brown.

Turner Valley Gas Plant employees and local firefighters quickly extinguished a grass fire that ignited at the historic site early this afternoon.

A Foothills MLA wants to eliminate squatters’ rights in Alberta with a private members bill, now before the provincial legislature.

The Foothills Highland Games is on the move for 2017. The annual celebration of Scottish heritage and culture has moved down the road and changed dates because of the field closure and ongoing construction at Foothills Composite High School.

Alberta beef ranchers and feedlot operators may have no choice but to pay fees to the Alberta Beef Producers under proposed provincial legislation that would reverse a 2009 decision allowing them to ask for their fees back.

We are getting closer to the date of one of my favourite annual events. The Sheep River Valley Clean-up and Tree Planting day will be on May 6 this year from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. You can pre-register to participate at okotoks.

It takes one to know one. The Foothills School Division’s nominee for the Edwin Parr Award knows all about that students who might get a ‘fails to work to his full potential’ comment on their report card.

A pair of Foothills Falcons was allowed to play rugby last week after first being denied due to a family’s refusal to pay school fees.