Province wants to double tourism revenue by 2035; visiting officials recognize tourism-community challenges Premier Danielle Smith was in Jasper this week to announce a new provincial tourism strategy and on St. Valentine’s Day had adoring words for Jasper’s welcoming nature. “Jasper and Banff are t...

Jasper Municipal C ouncil to consider expanding Jasper Transit Parks Canada wants Jasper Transit services to extend to Maligne Canyon. In a February 9 letter to the Municipality of Jasper, Jasper National Park Superintendent Alan Fehr said that Parks Canada is trying to encourage alternative modes o...

Paid Parking is Jasper’s cash cow that keeps growing The Municipality of Jasper's administrative team is suggesting to council that Jasper can get more out of its paid parking program. CAO Bill Given is putting forward that Committee of the Whole recommend council expand the town's paid parking prog...

Recommendation helps local professionals meet Parks Canada's eligible residency requirements To an artist, there’s nothing like a blank slate. And last week, a cadre of local creatives got the official word that their collective canvas has been primed for painting. On January 18, Jasper-based cerami...

To: Alan Fehr Superintendent, Jasper National Park Dear Mr. Fehr, I read in the Jasper Local that you have again refused the offer of a fully funded bridge over Simon Creek on the Athabasca Pass Trail. Oneexplanation for the refusal was to "ensure that the ecological integrity of the area will be ma...

In the wake of the Christmas holidays, Jasper’s residential recycling depots are full-to-bursting with plastic packaging, flattened cardboard boxes and licked-clean cranberry sauce cans.  Unfortunately, in harmony with the bloated waste streams, a quick peek at local social media platforms shows tha...

Not all onboard with transit plan   Jasper municipal councillors have approved Jasper’s 2024 operating and capital budgets, but members of the local tourism bureau remain concerned for Jasper’s fiscal future.  After six marathon sessions to deliberate on what administration presented to them on Nove...

Despite asbestos issues, larger-than-anticipated demolition scope and "rats' nests" of wiring" to untangle, renovation is still more cost effective than total rebuild, project managers say A facility tour of Jasper’s under-construction recreation facilities has opened local officials’ eyes as to the...

Council will attend to unfinished budget deliberations on Tuesday, December 12. On December 7, the Municipality of Jasper provided notice of a Special Meeting of Council to address remaining agenda items from council’s regular meeting on Tuesday. At the December 5 meeting , councillor Rico Damota vo...

Proposed budget doesn’t recognize what businesses are facing: JPCC       Local business owners aired their grievances on the proposed budget to Jasper Municipal Council recently.  Representatives from the Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce were among a dozen or so people in attendance for council’s Dec...