Alberta

Despite City Hall efforts to increase densities in many of its existing core neighbourhoods, Calgary will continue to have growth largely focused in its suburbs, says a new report from the City of Calgary.

Retail giant Costco will we setting up shop in the Edmonton suburb of St. Albert before the end of 2013, and there's more commercial development expected to follow.

The Town of Cochrane, population 17,000, has received an award for excellence in government finance from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.

Recent Statistics Canada studies show that B.C. is losing people at a fast pace, and nearly all of them are heading for Alberta. Since the second quarter of 2011, 12,430 more people moved from B.C. to Alberta.

With much more office space going dark than being leased up, Vancouver and Calgary are among Canadian markets vulnerable to a market correction, industry surveys suggest. In its second quarter 2013 report, CBRE Ltd.

The City of Grande Prairie will proceed with annexation of more than 15,000 acres from the surrounding county of the same name, despite the fact mediation with its neighbour hasn't solved all points of disagreement.

The Redford Conservatives' 2013-14 provincial budget threw much higher education-linked property tax burdens on high-growth communities, a move that has some mayors "shocked.

The oil town of Cold Lake is offering developers up to $7,500 per unit to build new rental apartments in the northeastern Alberta city.

The arena/event centre will be built in the northwest portion of the city in Box Springs Business Park, on land donated by the park's developer.

The Calgary Regional Partnership remains without the support of two of the key municipalities surrounding the big city: the Municipal District of Foothills and Rocky View County.