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Okotoks-based Karnalyte Resources raised about $60 million in its first forays into the stock market last week.

Calgarian Jill Lennox, creator of the Stuffitbag padded laptop computer case, confessed the idea for the product came from personal necessity.

Three family doctors will be opening practices at a new medical centre in High River as part of a new model designed to pair every resident with a primary care provider.

Cholera, frequent power outages and 16 to 20-hour workdays await a group of medical professionals from Oilfields Hospital in Black Diamond who are heading to earthquake ravaged Haiti next month.

Thefts from vehicles are becoming an epidemic in town and Okotoks RCMP are looking at all options to get a handle on the problem.

Pregnant women in the Southern Alberta foothills now have another option available when choosing how they will deliver their babies.

A new medical facility in Okotoks aims to provide more patients with primary health care and reduce emergency room wait times.

Construction on the new Sheep River Library is near completion and is expected to open to the public mid-March, two weeks ahead of the March 31 deadline. “That is amazingly soon,” said library board chair Diane Osberg.

A 45-year-old man was arrested after allegedly firing multiple shots at another person Jan. 16 on Eden Valley Reserve. The incident occurred at about 6 p.m.

Bearspaw First Nation, which includes Eden Valley, handed out more than $1.1 million in salaries and other costs to its chief and members of band council in 2008-2009.