In an effort to equalize child care costs across the province, parents will pay flat fees for child care starting April 1. The CBC's Janet French breaks down the new costs and why some worry that select families may have to pay more.

Fifty-five years after Missouri murderer Sharon Kinne escaped from a Mexican prison, American authorities confirm the fugitive had, for decades, been hiding in a small Alberta town.

What happened to Sharon Kinne? U.S. officials confirm the case is closed. As the CBC's Helen Pike reports, Taber, Alta., residents are learning who their neighbour Dee Glabus really was.

The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) is taking aim at the UCP government following a report highlighting a steep wage decline.

Alberta covers a massive area with diversity that may surprise anyone unfamiliar with the province’s unique geography.

Canada's federal government has assured Alberta that it will not bear a disproportionate burden of any retaliatory tariffs imposed in response to potential US import levies.

Any Canadian response to U.S. tariffs will be regionally fair and equitable and not single out Alberta, Canada's main oil-producing province, Canada's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Wednesday.

A snowfall warning was in effect Thursday for a swatch of western Alberta between Edmonton and the Rockies, in an area where at least two big collisions were reported.

Canada’s top oil-producing province of Alberta plans to boost its wealth fund roughly tenfold to C$250 billion ($173 billion) by 2050 in a bid to wean itself off volatile natural resources revenue.

Retired judge Peter Martin will oversee a review of ASIRT and the Crown prosecution service, in lights of watchdog cases where criminal charges were recommended but not pursued.

The Alberta government has named Assisted Living Alberta as the last of four new public agencies taking over provincial health care from Alberta Health Services.Seniors, Community and Social Services Minister Jason Nixon says the new agency is to be officially operational in April.

Alberta receives over a quarter of its revenues from the oil and gas industry, with the total amount for this budget year estimated at some C$20.3 billion, or around $14 billion. That appears to be an uncomfortably high degree of dependence on oil and gas revenues for the provincial government.