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The Wildrose has promised to immediately balance the provincial budget and save for the future by cutting government waste and extending some infrastructure projects by a year if it wins the April 23 election, said Wildrose leader Danielle Smith outlining the party's fiscal platform in Okotoks, on Tuesday.

The developer of a ‘crown jewel’ office development in downtown Medicine Hat has backed out of the project, saying the current market wouldn’t support the planned seven-storey office tower.

Both Progressive Conservative incumbent Len Mitzel and Wildrose challenger Drew Barnes were in their local campaign offices as the election writ dropped in Edmonton — signaling the official start of a campaign that's been ongoing for more than a year.

"The real question is how is the Wildrose going to differentiate itself from the PC Party," said Darren Hirsch, the former City alderman who won the PC candidacy in mid-January, "Wildrose arose out of a frustration of the royalty review.

"I'm thrilled. I'm just thrilled," said Hatter Mary DeWolfe, who actually worked on Mulcair's campaign and was "glued to the television" throughout the leadership convention this past weekend.

Figures from the Canadian Taxpayers Association has Renner pegged at receiving an $872,000 severance package, third only to retiring speaker of the house Ken Kowalski at $1.

With a provincial election looming and a black cloud hanging over his head over allegations of being paid for work on a committee that hasn't met in four years, Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Len Mitzel met with the editorial board of the News Friday to "clear the air.

A Cypress-Medicine Hat constituent is unhappy Elections Alberta passed his personal phone number to political parties and downright angry it's been used by the Wildrose Party to solicit support.

A Medicine Hat jury will be tasked to determine whether T-Jaye William Heller murdered and sexually assaulted a two-year-old boy in his care after a judge committed the 32-year-old to stand trial.