VANCOUVER - British Columbia's provincial election campaign has focused heavily on the governing Liberals' ability to balance the books — an achieve...

B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark repeated claims today that international bond rating agencies verified her last budget as balanced and are concerned...

VICTORIA - Standard and Poor's Rating Services has cemented British Columbia's triple A credit rating, following similar credit-and-bond ratings from ...

VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark's government survived a key budget vote Tuesday prompting the premier to declare her Liberals strong and united after...

VANCOUVER - B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins appeared to launch his unofficial election campaign on Tuesday with the release of a five-year fisca...

While the so-called 'ethnic vote' scandal continues to dog B.C. Premier Christy Clark and the Liberal Party, the government survived a more immediate ...

BURNABY, B.C. - More than two months before British Columbia's provincial election, both the premier and official opposition leader say they're girdin...

Most British Columbians don’t believe the provincial government’s claim that the budget will be balanced in 2013, according to an Ipsos Reid poll....

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's premier insists voters don't want their politicians to make expensive promises during the election campaign this spring...

The B.C. Liberal government likely has the provincial NDP “jumping for joy,” says Martyn Brown, chief of staff to former premier Gordon Campbell, ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is girded for tough negotiations with its doctors, telling physicians it's time for them to do their part a...

VICTORIA - Deficit and Surplus:— The government predicts budget surpluses of $197 million for 2013-2014, $211 million for 2014-1015 and $460 million...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark enters the next provincial election attempting to sell her "families first" image with a pair of bud...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Liberals turned their backs on more than a decade of devotion to tax cuts and hiked some significant ones Tuesday in a r...

The B.C. Liberals' last budget of this government is set to be delivered at 2 p.m. PT today. On Monday, former Bank of Montreal economist Tim O'Nei...

VICTORIA - Finance Minister Mike de Jong says hiring a former Bank of Montreal chief economist to fact check British Columbia's budget forced him to r...

Tuesday's provincial budget is supposed to present a plan to finally balance the books. But after four consecutive years in the red, British Columbians can't yet breathe a collective sigh of relief. Critically important is how Finance Minister Mike de Jong plans to eliminate the deficit. Will he take the path of tax increases or spending reductions? He would be wise to go with the latter. And this is why...

VICTORIA - Finance Minister Mike de Jong is set to deliver what he's calling a pre-election balanced budget Tuesday _ complete with a seal of approval...

The B.C. government will create a fund that will collect royalties from natural gas and apply them to pay off provincial debt, according to the throne...

VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark's Liberal government returns to the legislature this week poised to lay to rest the three-year-plus HST nightmare bef...

No matter what, on April 1, the HST finally moves on, and we can get on with our lives. Sure, she'll be mentioned from time to time and we'll no doubt stumble across her once in a while on Facebook or Twitter, but we're finally breaking up, and we are never, ever, ever getting back together.

VANCOUVER - A left-leaning think tank says if the B.C. government raised taxes to the levels collected in 2000, it would wipe out the deficit and have...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government has hired an economist to look over its pre-election budget, giving what the finance minister says is added assurance t...

Legislative oversight is fundamental to good government. And with less and less of it, the government does more and more by decree. B.C. isn't well-served by that. In 2012, the B.C. legislature sat for 47 days. Among its numerous legislative duties: to debate and approve a $44-billion budget. Forty-seven days is simply insufficient to do that and everything else well.

Governments can and do cut income tax rates for a variety of political reasons, while simultaneously raising fees on a dizzying array of other services to offset those cuts. Somehow they can do both at the same time with a straight face. A toll here, a casino there and the B.C. government is doing its best to find more-and-more imaginative ways of picking our pockets without hiking income tax rates.