Category Archives: Business

Premier Jason Kenney vowed Wednesday to keep fighting for Alberta's slumping oil and gas sector as the industry unveiled another disappointing drilling forecast and criticism surfaced from an unlikely...

A coalition of Alberta's agriculture commissions says more action is needed to help producers as they struggle to deal with a "harvest from hell." Team Alberta says major trade disruptions are still b...

Lacombe County has been hit hard in the pocketbook by Alberta's struggling and gas industry. Last week, county council voted to cancel $599,842.35 in unpaid taxes related to oil and gas wells, pipelin...

Event organizers of this year's Agri-Trade Equipment Exposition are pleased with what they say was a successful outcome of the event. Nearly 475 exhibits utilized almost every square inch of the avail...

Despite a downward trend in national housing starts last month, Red Deer saw a modest increase.According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), there were 16 housing starts in Red Deer in ...

At 80 feet high, and 107,000 square feet, the new sports dome in Red Deer County is quite the sight to behold, both from the inside and outside.Noah Welch, an American hockey Olympian turned Red Deer ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the government is adjusting its rules on oil production limits to give producers incentive to drill more conventional wells. Sonya Savage says, star...

Big PictureU.S. Markets Post Record-Closing Highs; TSX Extends Winning Streak It was an auspicious start to this week's trading as all three major U.S. indexes posted record-closing highs on Monday, e...

RED DEER- The Red Deer area unemployment rate fell in October to 7.3%.That is down from 8% in September.The Alberta rate rose a tenth from 6.6 to 6.7%.Nationally, the number of people working across C...

Fresh off this week's announcement that Canadian beef and pork exports to China will soon be resuming, Alberta's Agriculture and Forestry Minister is cautiously optimistic that the same will soon happ...