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 Combine one part outdated regulations with two parts perfunctory dialogue 2.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...