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A Foothills country music star will sing Canada’s no. 1 song this hockey season at the Calgary Saddledome. George Canyon, who lives west of High River, will sing O Canada and the Star Spangled Banner before Calgary Flames home games this season.

Crews working to stop water seeping through the asphalt on Crystal Ridge Drive discovered the problem was caused by a leaking water main, not natural groundwater as first thought.

Local sports groups are teaming up to ask the Town of Okotoks to build a new pool in the community. The Foothills Stringrays Swim Club is working with other aquatics group to circulate a petition for a new 50m, 10-lane competition pool in town.

Ten-year-old Valentine Puente and Charlotte Ojano went to the Calgary Stampede four times this summer, and both said their favourite part was going on the midway rides and eating cotton candy, yet neither recalled seeing a horse or a cow during the 1

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is in full swing in Okotoks and local women will have an additional tool to help them combat the deadly disease. A mobile mammogram unit will be parked outside of the Okotoks Recreation Centre from Oct.

Though it’s been more than a year, Bragg Creek resident and store owner Laurel Frezell, is concerned members of her community are still having emotional difficulties dealing with the negative repercussions brought on by the June 2013 floods, which de

The Okotoks area is getting two new schools. Alberta Education announced on Oct. 8 a new K-9 school for the Foothills School Division for between 500 and 700 students somewhere in the Okotoks area.

The seed is nearly all in the bin, but just how much seed there is depends on where in the foothills a farmer lives. Glenn Groeneveld, who farms north of Blackie, had an early harvest due to severe hail damage in early August.

The Okotoks BMX Club is looking to a more certain future thanks to a potential agreement with the Town for the continued use of the existing track site for the next five years.

A DeWinton lawyer received the stiffest sentence in an Alberta-based Ponzi scheme that saw an estimated $30 million stolen from investors over three years, ending in May 2004.