With Brad Wall's departure from politics, the private sector is losing an ally whose voice reverberated louder than most on the public stage.

In another sign the bloom is off the boom for the oilsands, the industry has returned almost one million hectares of northern Alberta exploration leases to the province over the past two years.

Rebuilding efforts in Fort McMurray, Alta., are running ahead of expectations, with reconstruction underway on one-third of the homes destroyed in last year's wildfire.

Kinder Morgan Canada is facing mounting pressure to detail its plans for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion when it releases its first earnings report Wednesday since going public.

Nearly 50 years after the opening of Canada's first major oilsands mine, the site is an epicentre of energy, teeming with bustling workers amid signs of its pioneering past and cutting-edge future.

The launch of Canada’s first large−scale oilsands mine began on a cold and overcast September day in 1967, with speeches to a crowd of about 600 VIPs.

The sector lost 17 publicly traded juniors in the past 30 months as benchmark U.S. oil prices fell from over US$100 to about half as much.

Battered by more than two years of weak oil prices, drillers and other oilfield service providers look to lower costs and strengthen finances by scaling up.

Oilpatch CEOs fear their costs will rise when the federal government passes recently introduced legislation to legalize recreational marijuana.

Increasingly empty industrial yards around the northeastern B.C. city of Fort St. John are a welcome sign for Jennifer Moore.