Local News

The Province is providing $250,000 for school playgrounds and two Okotoks schools will be the first to benefit, but a local Catholic school missed the cut.

Some Priddis residents are hoping to get a water pipeline built to serve the hamlet and surrounding area. The idea was proposed by Doug Weston, who manages a large off-stream storage reservoir, where he collects water during flood periods.

A young girl once featured in the newspaper on her first day of school has worked extra hard to get to her graduation day.

Plans for clear-cut logging at Highwood Junction didn’t get the response opponents to the project were hoping for when the plan received attention in the legislature last month. Dr.

A group of Okotoks residents are frustrated over a lack of response from the provincial government on calls to reform the Mobile Home Tenancy Act.

RCMP are looking for witnesses in a suspected case of arson at an abandoned home on McRae Street over the weekend. Okotoks firefighters responded at 10:20 p.m. on June 3 to a report of a fire in an abandoned house at 165 McRae Street.

An unprecedented flood left downtown Okotoks under water last week, testing the limits of the Town’s capacity to respond. At least, that was the situation facing the Town of Okotoks’ during its annual emergency scenario May 24.

A unique entertainment park that began in controversy is close to opening its doors to the public.

Mila McFadyen knows what it takes to win the annual Okotoks Rotary Soap Box Derby. She took home the winner’s trophy last year and she’s looking to turn in the fastest time on the course once again this weekend.

An Air Ranch-area home suffered significant damage and one occupant remains in hospital after a late-night fire yesterday.