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The Crescent Point Regional Field House is near capacity, but operators are still looking to increase its usage one year after opening its doors.

Turn off the lights and turn on your curiosity during Earth Hour this year. The Okotoks Museum and Archives will be hosting an Earth Hour Heritage Walk from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on March 19.

A trial date has been set for two of three high-school-age male youths charged with sharing intimate images. Three Okotoks teens were charged in December with sharing intimate images of female friends and peers.

An Okotoks man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover on Monday night. Emergency services responded to the accident at approximately 6:33 p.m. on March 14 at 274 Ave. and 112 St. E., just south of Dunbow road.

Local entrepreneurs can learn the ins and outs of running a tourism business next week.

Foothills residents may need to prepare for windy conditions Thursday. Environment Canada has issued a wind warning for the Okotoks and High River areas and much of the MD of Foothills.

Thanks to twists of fate, a scary situation had a happy ending for eight-year-old Fiona, a havanese-shih tsu who escaped from her foster home on Feb. 24.

Okotoks RCMP say they are working their way up to the “supplier levels” of the local drug trade after seizing fentanyl, cocaine and ecstasy from a storage locker in Calgary. On Feb. 18 at 3 p.m.

It may be dry on the plains outside Okotoks, but it’s a different story in the mountains at the Sheep River’s headwaters.

Okotoks has another tourism award to put under its belt. The Town was the recipient of the Growing Rural Tourism Champion Award on Feb. 23 at a rural tourism conference held in Camrose.