EDMONTON - A backbench Alberta Progressive Conservative member is withdrawing from caucus while the ethics commissioner investigates his business deal...

EDMONTON - Backbench Alberta Tory Peter Sandhu withdrew from the government caucus Tuesday while the ethics commissioner investigates his business dea...

EDMONTON - The spring sitting of the Alberta legislature picked up where the fall sitting left off, with Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith calling Premie...

EDMONTON - Alberta's opposition politicians are promising a rough ride for Premier Alison Redford as the spring sitting of the legislature resumes.Red...

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...

Creating capacity in municipal governance isn't really something the elves can build and throw in Santa's toy bag. It will take politicians and citizens committed to a superior democratic structure to make this one happen. It would be the best Xmas ever if Alberta embraced this exceptional opportunity to craft a truly democratic society.

I woke up this morning and checked into Twitter to discover some very self-congratulatory tweets coming out of the Alberta Legislature. The tweets weren't really about passing good legislation or having a good debate, though. No, they were about the heroism of politicians staying up all night long to debate that legislation and govern our province. And my response? I'm not impressed by that "heroism".

Following days of accusations that Lynn Redford, sister of Alberta Premier Alison Redford, had been involved in illegal donations during her tenure as the Government Relations officer at Calgary Health Region, and subsequent accusations on the part of the CBC that Alberta Health Services has been "wining and dining" on the taxpayer's dime for quite sometime, the Deputy Premier struck back Thursday during Question Period.

EDMONTON - Legislation tabled in the Alberta legislature would give the chief electoral officer power to publicly divulge the names of those who give ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government plans to introduce laws to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to children and to protect kids from secondhand smoke in ...

CALGARY - A complicated voting system that provided political longshots with a chance to win leadership races has been dumped by Alberta's Progressive...

EDMONTON - Premier Alison Redford's Progressive Conservatives have scrapped their plan to have taxpayers cover off the maximum RRSP contribution for a...

EDMONTON - Proposed new energy rules will leave landowners with no meaningful say or right of appeal when pipelines, oil wells or other projects are p...

EDMONTON - Alberta government workers, teachers, doctors, and nurses are among thousands who will soon be able to flag wrongdoing and be protected fro...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is bringing in new whistleblower legislation and critics want to see what safeguards will be in place for those who ...

CALGARY - Saying the "world is watching," the Alberta government introduced legislation Wednesday that would put a single regulator in charge of overs...

The Alberta government began the fall sitting of legislature on Tuesday, and begins its third attempt today to pass its overhaul of legislation for g...

EDMONTON - Alberta brought back legislation Tuesday to take on schoolyard bullies and clarify that home-schooling parents won't face human rights inve...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government begins its third attempt today to pass its overhaul of legislation for grade schools.It's one of 10 bills on the ord...

EDMONTON - It was late, too small, over budget, built on quicksand, and opened up the same year the Titanic went down.The builders also forgot to put ...

EDMONTON - The lights are bright and colourful under the dome of Alberta's historic legislature.The government is spending $40,000 on new accent light...