Problems that confounded Parks Canada’s online campground reservation service in years past appear to be in the rear view mirror. Meanwhile, occupancy rates in Jasper’s hotel sector have rebounded from the pandemic.  Issues which plagued Parks Canada’s online campground reservation system were resol...

Parks Canada will not close the Icefields Parkway today as planned. The Maligne Lake Road is also open. Snowfall levels from the winter storm forecasted to hit Jasper National Park starting February 12, 2023, were not as significant as expected, Parks Canada says. Still, the agency is advising motor...

With sale of Mountain Galleries, Jasper artist and filmmaker is reflecting on a life lived in art As a 10-year-old girl, Wendy Wacko never struggled with what she would do when she grew up. “I always knew I wanted to live a life in art,” she said. Some six decades later, the Jasper-based arts promot...

RCMP have determined that criminal charges are not warranted in the 2020 Columbia Icefields Ice Explorer rollover that killed three people.  Jasper RCMP have completed their investigation into the accident and determined the evidence gathered and reviewed did not meet the threshold for criminal char...

Two local business owners are concerned about the lack of business supports in the wake of Jasper’s September 4-14 power outage emergency. Patricia Street proprietors Lynn Wannop and Shelley Koebel both attended the September 27 committee of the whole meeting, on behalf of their individual businesse...

Jaime Breeze was three years old when she saw her first “spirit.” She’s not alone in that experience; many children claim to see ghosts . The difference was, unlike most children’s parents who chalk such behaviour up to an over-active imagination, Jaime’s mother was always supportive of her visions....

I’d skirt the guidelines, frustrated councillor tells restauranteurs Patio decision epitomizes jurisdictional issues between town and federal government Councillor Scott Wilson expressed the collective frustration of Jasperites at the May 17 municipal council meeting when he told business delegates ...

Jasper’s Jakub Sebela wasn’t always interested in woodworking. When he was young, growing up in a tiny town in the foothills of the Czech Republic, Sebela wanted to be a mechanic. He thought woodworking was too messy. “I wanted to be clean,” the 32-year-old said. “I didn’t like the dust.” But his pa...

From a young age, Emilie Langley had a penchant for needlework. Sewing lessons as a teenager put her ahead of the curve; Langley would finish her home-economics assignments much faster than the rest of the students. “I think that upset the teacher,” Langley said with a laugh. In college, Langley rem...

Lynn and Andrew Wannop were not the first to find out that the Municipality of Jasper had some news to share with them. “I was in a meeting with our school coordinator,” Lynn said. “All of a sudden my phone started going crazy.” Lynn’s friends were blowing up her phone because they had just watched ...