Alberta

Surging oil wealth, a huge provincial surplus, and a booming real estate market make Calgary the new "centre of the universe" in Canada.

In Calgary, the Planning Commission wants to ban stucco, but a condo developer objects.

Downtown locations for many of the social service and training opportunities immigrants need may no longer make sense in rapidly-growing cities such as Calgary.

While housing demand in the rest of Canada cools, Alberta homebuilders can't keep up with demand, and are literally turning homebuyers away because of shortages of materials and labour.

The University of Calgary’s Transportation Action Group uses abandoned bikes for a free campus-wide community bicycle program.

Extracting the hundreds of billions of barrels of recoverable oil trapped in the sands of northern Alberta will have a huge environmental price tag.

A geologist's controversial theory that the oil in Alberta's tar sands flowed from coal fields based on ancient peat, could mean that there are vast supplies of oil waiting to be discovered, not just in Alberta but all over the world.

Famous for its oil wealth and the "prosperity cheques" being handed out to every resident, the Canadian Province of Alberta is actually a classic example of rapacious growth, dangerously poor planning and poor performance on social development indicators.

The Edmonton city council struggles with how to turn design guidelines into attractive buildings.

Scientists discover a new, clean way to generate power from water.