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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.

A group of Okotoks residents is proposing the new 32 Street bridge be named McAlpine Crossing in honour of the town’s former mayor.

Thieves targeted a downtown Okotoks business earlier this month making off with $20,000 in expensive brand name jeans. Sometime overnight between Jan.

Workers are back on the job to complete the $4.4-million modernization at Ecole Percy Pegler School one month after the original contractor was deemed in default of its contract with the Foothills School Division.