MD of Bighorn

Taxpayers in the MD of Bighorn have historically not been paying for police services, but that is about to change after the province announced 300 new RCMP members for rural communities and changes to the funding formula to pay for those new positions

Of the concerns, the Bow Valley Clean Air society noted increased greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter emissions, and decreased overall air quality

"If there were no developments, there would be no need to do anything for this interchange other than maintenance."

“I’m taking it one day at a time; [I’m] devastated, is what I’d say."

"We are so far along in the process at this point – my expectation is we will complete it."

Exshaw firefighters worked for seven hours to put out the devastating fire on Saturday morning (Nov. 30).

"It looks like they want to put an access on our only residential access into the community and almost the entire community is against that."

More blasting and less vibrations were some of the highlights at the recent Lafarge information session on Tuesday (Nov. 26), where officials revealed the quarry extension plan on the back mountain in Exshaw.  

“Why it decided to enter the enclosure, we have no idea, but once he was in there, he regretted that decision really quickly."

“We have an infrastructure deficit in this province and it just continues to crumble. We will have to replace it and we need money to do that.”