Jasper National Park is holding its annual year-in-review.  On April 27, Parks Canada staff will present highlights of the past year and explain coming priorities at the Jasper National Park Annual Public Forum. The evening starts at 6:30 p.m. with Jasper Field Unit Superintendent Alan Fehr’s addres...

A Grande Cache Metis organization is preparing to seek a prohibitory injunction to halt a Hinton-based logging company’s planned harvest of 3,500 hectares of critical caribou habitat. The Mountain Metis Nation Association, an umbrella organization of the Metis Nation of Alberta, says the Moon Creek ...

Jasper residents are teaming up to give plastic bags the boot from Jasper National Park. A growing group of locals, bothered by bags of the single-use variety, want to give retailers and their customers viable options when it comes to carrying their groceries and other goods. “I feel like Jasper sho...

A $1.5 million geothermal energy demonstration project will soon be piped into the village of Valemount. Natural Resources Canada is funding the purchase of three 150kW modules which will turn the earth’s heat under the B.C. community into clean electricity. “The demonstration geothermal turbines wi...