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Parkway closing for avalanche control work

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Parks Canada is temporarily closing the Icefields Parkway today (Saturday, December 7) for avalanche control. The Icefields Parkway (Hwy 93N) will be closed from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. from Parker Ridge to Big Bend. “This will allow necessary avalanche control work to safely take place,” a media statement reads. The parkway will be opened sooner, if conditions are safe to do so, the agency said. Check ...

Alberta Politics

Glutton for punishment: will poor Alberta policy doom our wolverines?

Mark Bradley

Friday, December 6, 2024

The wolverine is a reclusive, mysterious animal that is rarely seen by humans. I t’s scientific name is Gulo gulo, which translates to ‘glutton’ or ‘I...

Community

Rotary donation fills Jasper Food Bank’s cup

Bob Covey

Thursday, December 5, 2024

The Jasper Food Bank Society has received a big boost to help provide food security in Jasper. Jasper seniors were the first to receive the news. Over...

Alberta Politics

Alberta politicos vote Richard Ireland as Best Municipal Elected Official in 2024

Bob Covey

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Jasper’s mayor is number one. Richard Ireland has been voted Best Municipal Elected Official in political watcher Dave Cournoyer’s Best of Alberta Pol...

Community

Rebuild Jasper Run tallies $22,000 and counting

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Hundreds of racers and hundreds more supporting those runners this weekend helped in the ongoing efforts to Rebuild Jasper. On November 30, the Rebuil...

Community

Holiday cheer for displaced Jasperites

Friday, November 29, 2024

The Jasper Community Team Society and Santas Anonymous organizers are working hard to ensure community members have the opportunity to gather over the...

Environment

The winning ingredients: Competition in nature

Mark Bradley

Thursday, June 27, 2024

This is the time of year when competition is on everyone’s mind. The NHL and NBA playoffs have just ended, the 2024 Euros are underway and the Paris O...

Business

Pursuit to purchase SkyTram for $25M

Bob Covey

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

The Jasper SkyTram will be sold to Pursuit. Viad Corp, parent company of Pursuit Banff/Jasper Collection, today announced it has entered into an agree...

Environment

Maligne Lake campsites reopened after grizzly encounter

Bob Covey

Friday, June 14, 2024

Canoe-accessed facilities on Maligne Lake are open again after a camper’s close encounter with a grizzly bear family precipitated two campground evacu...

Community

Emerging from the ashes: what nature can teach us about rebuilding

Mark Bradley

Monday, September 16, 2024

Upheaval and change One of the most successful TV shows of the past several years has been Succession, a darkly funny drama about an exceptionally dys...

Environment

The cycle continues: Wildfire and wildlife

Mark Bradley

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

While some animals will die in a fire, most do not. To varying degrees, species have adapted to fires. Biologist and Jasper Local contributor Mark Bra...

Environment

Fire on the mountain

Bob Covey

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

As a massive wildfire roars up the Athabasca River Valley, an evacuated community waits on fire officials—and the weather—to turn the tide “One of Ca...

Community

Fire ban in effect Friday, July 12

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Parks Canada and the Municipality of Jasper are coordinating efforts to implement a fire ban in Jasper National Park. Effective July 12, 2024, a fire ...

Arts & Culture

Wild Aerial on precipice of theatrical debut

Bob Covey

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

An azure ice cave at the toe of a glacier. A deep limestone canyon, carved by millennia of hydrological forces. A quartzite peak at the roof of the Ro...

Environment

Icefields Parkway bridge construction continues for fifth straight summer

Bob Covey

Thursday, July 4, 2024

The Nigel Creek Bridge is under construction again. For another summer, motorists on the Icefields Parkway (Hwy 93N) can expect delays one km south o...

Arts & Culture

Parks Day brings the music, medicine and mountain magic

Bob Covey

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

It’s been a summer staple in Jasper for 34 years, but Parks Day 2024 is arguably the most thoughtfully-curated celebration of Jasper National Park yet...

Arts & Culture

A sourdough of stanzas: Poems born of the pandemic

Bob Covey

Monday, July 15, 2024

Naked Pictures by Rockies poet Mme Paulette Dubé is a curious peek into a curious mind during a curious time in the world. Naked Pictures is availabl...

Community

Memories of 702 Turret: Eulogy for a Jasper home

Margot Finley, guest contributor

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Margot Finley’s Uncle Charlie’s house was one of the more than 350 structures destroyed by the wildfire that swept through Jasper, Alberta on July 24,...