Hundreds of people gathered at the Jasper Activity Centre on Saturday, November 11 to observe Remembrance Day ceremonies. The event was emceed by Sgt. Greg Key from The Jasper Legion. Members of the Jasper Girl Guides helped various community representatives and dignitaries lay wreaths next to the c...

Members of a well-regarded brass quintet are polishing their instruments—and their boots—in advance of their Jasper performances. Tonight, five members of the Royal Canadian Artillery Band will be joining the Jasper Legion’s famously raucous Friday night crowds for a special Jasper Veterans’ Festiva...

On the strong performance of its Banff/Jasper collection, Pursuit has achieved record earnings between July and September, 2023. Viad released its 2023 third quarter results on November 2. Viad Corp, a publicly-traded company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, reported that the Banff-Jasper Collection wa...

Jasper students helped ensure that No Stone was Left Alone in Jasper’s cemetery recently. On November 7, with the help of Jasper’s Royal Canadian Legion, more than three dozen young people from Jasper Jr./Sr. High School helped keep alive the memories of men and women who served their country in uni...

Recipe for a Parks Canada consultation 1. Combine one part outdated regulations with two parts perfunctory dialogue 2. Sprinkle liberally with jargon 3. Stir awkwardly (by as many Parks Canada cooks as can fit in the kitchen) 4. Serve cold. Tell whoever has to swallow it how good it is for them  Wil...

Sweet-smelling smoke curls from a smudge bowl. Outside of a tent erected near Jasper National Park’s Snaring River, alpenglow bathes the mountaintops in pink hues. Inside, an historic ceremony is about to take place. Elders from the Simpcw First Nation and elders from the Stoney Nation cup the wafti...

A hairline fracture in the Jasper Arena’s new ice plant was determined to be the cause of an ammonia leak which shut down the Jasper Activity Centre two weekends ago. On October 14, with one minute left in the U13 Jasper Bears’ game versus Drayton Valley, Jasper emergency responders, including RCMP ...

They say good things come in threes, which explains the trio of jam-packed, star-studded, can’t-miss-it festival weekends that make up this year’s Jasper Dark Sky Festival. The celestial celebration runs from October 13 to 29, spanning three weekends. If you're a fan of all things astro or simply lo...

The Dark Sky Festival is 13 years old in 2023—young in astronomical terms, sure, but as far as science festivals go, that’s light years of hard work. Jasper’s Niki Wilson has been with the event since it was just a nebula. As the Dark Sky Festival’s science content advisor and festival host, she hel...

Major renovations at the Jasper Arena are starting to take shape and the same can be said for the hockey season in Jasper. On October 3, ice users representing Jasper’s various hockey teams in the community were given an update on how the Municipality of Jasper’s $20 million upgrades to the Jasper A...

What’s it going to take for Jasperites to start managing their wildlife attractants responsibly? All this fall, once again, bears have been running amok in Jasper. Morning and night—and even in the bustle of midday—bears are darting in and out of residential neighbourhoods, feasting on the easily-ac...

Marmot Basin staff are organizing to change their relationship with their employer, but a technical issue with their union membership petition has stalled their unionization efforts. An application to the Alberta Labour Relations Board (ALRB) was was filed on behalf of Marmot Basin employees this pa...

Four dudes, 1,200 kilometres, two golf courses, 6,450 yards and 506 strokes. Those were the numbers for the representatives from Jasper Jr./Sr. High School at the Alberta Schools Athletic Association’s (ASAA) 2023 Provincial Golf Tournament. Four dudes: Drew Kovacs, Casey Peel, Lincoln Radloff and A...

The Honourable Marc Garneau is coming to Jasper for the upcoming Dark Sky Festival. Despite Garneau’s career in exploration, the 74-year-old has never been to Jasper. His wife has fond memories of visiting here when she was a student, but when it comes to the Rocky Mountains, the first Canadian in s...

No one could accuse Ray Naito of doing things the easy way. To get his gluten-free craft beer concept from a back-of-the-napkin idea, to where it is now—a real-life, drinkable product, available at local bottle shops, bars and restaurants, the 39-year-old has been through the wringer. Or the ferment...

Parks Canada wildlife specialists euthanized a black bear cub after it was seriously injured in what appears to be a railway incident. For the last four weeks, a recognizable black bear family, comprised of a mother and her three cubs, had been frequenting the Jasper townsite. The family was easy to...

New details about the awarding of the Jasper Transit contract call into question information circulated in a widely-shared social media post by a local transportation company. The post, “An open letter to the Jasper community,” shared on SunDog’s Tour and Transportation Co.’s Facebook page , has mor...

Tourism Jasper and a partnership of local businesses want to help salvage Jasper’s hockey season. The Jasper Recreation Facilities Renovation Project—Jasper’s $20 million upgrade to the Arena, Activity Centre and Aquatic Centre —had its official sod-turning ceremony on September 6. The major project...

The 2023 Jasper Folk Music Festival is in the books and it's unanimous: it was the festival organizers, and the community, deserved. After successive years of cancelations due to COVID-19, the herky-jerkiness of last year's Chetamon Mountain wildfire-compromised event, and some soggy memories of les...

A mother black bear and her cub have been captured and removed from the Jasper townsite by wildlife officials. It’s a second-to-last-ditch effort to give these bears a chance at living their life in a more natural environment, said JNP’s resource conservation manager, Dave Argument. The last resort ...