It's budget day in Alberta, and Premier Alison Redford says that while lean times are ahead, there won't be any tax hikes. The budget is expected ...

EDMONTON - It's budget day in Alberta, and Premier Alison Redford says that while lean times are ahead, there won't be any tax hikes.Redford says fall...

With all the gloom-and-doom swirling around Edmonton this week, an outside observer might conclude a state funeral was in the works instead of an annual budget presentation. Yet while Premier Redford undeniably has tough decisions to make, there are promising signals that she is looking beyond bubbles and examining a range of more enduring solutions to the province's challenges.

EDMONTON - Alberta's budget, to be unveiled Thursday, will be so lean, it won't even keep up with provincial growth, Premier Alison Redford said Wedne...

CALGARY - The Alberta government's bottom line continues to bleed red ink and the province is planning job cuts and a wage freeze for civil-service ma...

EDMONTON - Alberta's municipal affairs minister says while next month's provincial budget will be difficult, the days of off-loading all the pain onto...

EDMONTON - Alberta's auditor general says the province didn't break its own rules by delivering a bare-bones first-quarter budget update last summer.M...

EDMONTON - The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says it is going to Alberta's economic summit this weekend to spread the word that Alberta needs to go on...

EDMONTON - With Alberta facing a $6 billion shortfall in next month's budget, Premier Alison Redford's government has passed a motion to refuse a mand...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Alison Redford says raising royalty rates for energy companies won't be on the table as experts gather in Calgary this weeke...

Albertans are being told to put their clicking fingers where their mouths are and build their own provincial budget. Premier Alison Redford and her...

EDMONTON — With Alberta's bottom line being gutted by falling oil revenue, the March 7 budget will embody a "once in a generation'' transformation i...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford, in her first TV address, warned Thursday of tough fiscal times and multibillion-dollar revenue shortfalls d...

CALGARY - Alberta's finance minister says plummeting oil revenue means the next Alberta budget isn't going to be pretty, but the province isn't ready ...

EDMONTON - The next sitting of the Alberta legislature is to begin March 5.The provincial budget is to follow two days later.Premier Alison Redford ha...

EDMONTON - The price squeeze on heavy oil is gutting Alberta's bottom line and Finance Minister Doug Horner says it's now all hands on deck to cut spe...

EDMONTON - Premier Alison Redford is trying to reassure Albertans that the province's operating budget will balance in the next fiscal year.A recent n...

If there was any confidence that Alberta's government would avoid imitating the failed policies of other provinces -- think of Quebec and Ontario and their massive debts -- that faint hope for continued Alberta exceptionalism was kiboshed at the recent Progressive Conservative convention in Calgary.

EDMONTON - Two Alberta Tory cabinet ministers say politicians from the Opposition Wildrose party are self-serving hypocrites trained in "flea-market" ...

EDMONTON - Premier Alison Redford's plan to take on debt puts Alberta on the same slippery slope of budget-busting jiggery-pokery that sent Greece ove...

As many students enrolled in algebra class are likely discovering, numbers can be rather dry. But a proper understanding of them is indispensable to modern life. Without hard, reliable numbers regularly checked, much personal, business, and government planning would be akin to gambling: throw the dice, risk the cash and hope for the best.

If you think the province is running amok with our finances and you are itching to get your two cents in, well, you just got your chance. The provi...

The truth was that the provincial government had fudged the numbers and in fact the government ended up running a $2.6 billion deficit, the second largest deficit while under Don Getty's watch. This game of jiggery-pokery wasn't appreciated by Albertans and as such they started demanding the government open up their books and tell Albertans on a regular basis what was going on with the provincial budget.

The recent announcement by Finance Minister Doug Horner that Alberta maybe looking at a budget deficit as large as $3 billion this year has touched a ...

EDMONTON - Falling oil revenues and a volatile global marketplace are hammering Alberta's bottom line and may leave taxpayers with a deficit as large ...