Category Archives: Business

Red Deer County council has approved a recommendation to write off a bad debt expense for 2021 of $1,448,009.80 as a result of uncollectable property taxes from oil and gas properties.For the second y...

Big Picture North American Markets Lose Ground as Fed Tone Turns Hawkish It was a solid Monday for U.S. stocks, which rose in the first session of 2022, pushing the Dow and S&P 500 to fresh record...

Building permit values in Red Deer saw an increase last month when compared with the same month last year.According to the latest stats released by the City of Red Deer on Friday, there were 58 approv...

The Red Deer economic region's unemployment rate edged lower last month from 6.6 per cent in November to 6.5 per cent in December. That's also lower from an unemployment rate of 9.5 per cent in Decemb...

The Red Deer Downtown Business Association (DBA) is welcoming two new members to its Board of Directors.Brandon Bouchard of TRIBE Restaurant and Gary Oosterhoff of the Century Centre will join existin...

If you purchased a Cash Calendar for The Lending Cupboard's (TLC) recent fundraiser, then you may have gotten a cash related call sometime yesterday. The fundraiser's second year in a row, Cash Calend...

Officials with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) say Albertans may be facing higher taxes come the New Year.That's according to the organization's 2022 New Year's Tax Changes report released thi...

The Central Alberta Economic Partnership (CAEP) has elected its 2022 board of directors.For the first time, CAEP's chair will be a business representative, rather than an elected official. That person...

Big Picture Markets Mixed as Investors Weigh Concerns Over Omicron Variant, Inflation After a strong showing last week, North American markets took a step back on Monday as fears over the Omicron vari...

The latest National Rent Report is out, courtesy Rentals.ca, and Red Deer's average rent has gone down.From November to December, the average cost of a one-bedroom place went from $953 to $912. That's...