Local News

The public and separate school boards in Okotoks announced last week they are looking forward to working with the Town to determine school sites at potential new subdivisions in the community.

Highwood residents will officially have at least four names on their ballot when they head to the polls on May 5.

Highwood residents can expect another candidate to come knocking at their door in the next few weeks after the Alberta NDPs selected a candidate to run in constituency.

Firefighters were unable to save a home on an acreage south of Okotoks in an early morning blaze on Easter Sunday which has been called suspicious by RMCP.

Okotoks RCMP are looking for assistance in tracking down suspects in an early morning home invasion on April 1. At approximately 3 a.m. four males unlawfully entered an Okotoks home and assaulted a 24-year-old male.

In an attempt to revolutionize the way Okotoks residents and businesses access Internet services, the Town has approved the purchase and launch of its own personal satellite.

Sasquatch has been found in the Foothills.

School divisions are battening down the economic hatches despite an announcement of a one-per-cent increase in funding in Alberta’s 2015 fiscal budget on Thursday.

A fire ban has been issued in the MD of Foothills after 45 fire fighters from five separate departments spent hours battling a March 31 grass fire near Blackie that stretched more than a kilometre.

Members of a town committee have big dreams for the Town’s post-secondary-schooling future.