A local family’s Wildest Dreams came true last week. Violet and Barrett Beckmann are two of millions of Taylor Swift fans (known as Swifties, if you haven’t been Out of the Woods in a while). The Beckmanns are also two of thousands of Jasperites who, thanks to a once in a century wildfire in July, h...

Dear Editor Thank you for the article highlighting the effort of Jasper school children taking care of and decorating the grave stones of those that gave their lives to allow us the freedoms we enjoy. ( Students honour veterans with No Stone Left Alone, November 11, 2024) My home town was liberated ...

Jasper students were helping keep alive the memory of fallen veterans who dedicated themselves to service. Students Jenna Fortin, Willow Lent and Naim Tremblay were some of the students who took part in the No Stone Left Alone 2024 program. // Bob Covey With help from the Jasper Royal Canadian Legio...

To members of the Cree Nation , the buffalo has deep and significant spiritual meaning. “At a core level, the Cree people in Alberta were buffalo people,” says Jasper’s Matricia Bauer. “Buffalo was their food, their celebrations, their instruments, their tools, their way of life.” But even though he...

Is Alberta’s Minister of Forestry and Parks camouflaging the hunting of “problem” grizzly bears as a wildlife safety measure? Back in June, Minister Todd Loewen, a renowned big game hunter and shareholder in a Valleyview-based outfitting business, signed a ministerial order that, to this retired bio...

More Jasperites are signing on to the Bulk Debris Removal (BDR) program in an effort to reduce costs and improve efficiencies for the clean-up of residential properties destroyed in the Jasper Wildfire Complex. However representatives from the Jasper Recovery Coordination Centre are encouraging stil...

Parks Canada and the Municipality of Jasper are making Jasper’s rebuilding process simpler. Yesterday the joint agencies released new, streamlined policy to guide the community’s recovery. “This is an important step forward in recovering from … the hardest challenge we have faced together,” said Jas...

“Hope is not just the future, but also the present.” Canada’s Governor General was in Jasper this week, bringing a message of hope, admiration and empathy to the community after it was devastated by fire in July. Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon said the people she met during her Octob...

When the Derksen family lost their home in the Jasper wildfire, they knew that chances were slim that the precious reminders of their lives were spared from the flames.  Photos of the Derksens’ home on fire, with the iconic, yellow and brown “Jasper BrewPub” VW bus parked outside, were some of the f...

The Jasper wildfire was a fiery furnace, temperatures reaching almost 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt copper and gold.  With such atomic obliteration, will we ever see the forest come back within our lifetime, certainly within mine? In four days in August I would have my answer.  There ...

Cory Wallace doesn’t play competitive hockey these days, but the former Jasper Wolves winger recently scored a double hat trick on his mountain bike. In September, the 37-year-old Jasperite chalked up his sixth consecutive WEMBO 24-hour Solo World Mountain Bike Championship , outlasting two extremel...

The production of 250 modular homes is being fast-tracked by the Alberta government to support Jasper residents who lost their homes in the July 24 wildfire. Yesterday (October 21), alongside Mayor Richard Ireland, West Yellowhead MLA Martin Long and Evergreens Foundation CAO Kristin Chambers, Minis...

The Jasper wildfire incident temporarily halted work and necessitated additional cleaning, particularly in the Aquatic Centre. Wildfire-caused delays are pushing the completion of renovations to Jasper’s recreation facilities into December. The municipality had previously projected thatthe $20-milli...

This week, contractors have started site-servicing at the parcels which will host interim housing units. Interim housing for Jasper residents who lost their homes in the Jasper Wildfire Complex is one step closer to realization. The Municipality of Jasper’s Director of Recovery, Michael Fark, provid...

Margot Finley’s Uncle Charlie’s house was one of the more than 350 structures destroyed by the wildfire that swept through Jasper, Alberta on July 24, 2024.  But “structure” is a terribly empty word for what's gone, Margot writes. At a dinner last winter I learned that our waiter had spent time in J...

Record dryness, extreme heat, high winds, and a lightning storm. This summer in Jasper National Park, all of the ingredients of a recipe for disaster were in place. Now, two and a half months after that disaster came to pass, another set of circumstances— misinformation, toxic politics and facts-sta...

Jasper seniors faced with losing their dedicated lounge space are not taking the prospect sitting down. As post-wildfire recovery work in Jasper ramps up and the Jasper Recovery Coordination Centre shores up resources to assist in Jasper’s anticipated years-long rebuilding process, local officials a...

The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, together with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Travel Alberta, want to help bring the community back together. After re-opening their doors on October 1 , and on the heels of a giant clothing, toy and household item swap held at the main lodge on October 4 and 5, t...

UPDATED: Monday, October 7 The Skål Club of the Canadian Rockies, in partnership with Skål Canada, has brought together all sectors of the tourism industry to support Jasper. The Skål Club of the Canadian Rockies last month launched a global online silent auction, with all proceeds to be donated to ...

As local officials shore up millions of dollars worth of resources to help the community recover from the July 24 wildfire, a small team of advocates has been ensuring hundreds of workers in Jasper don’t slip through the cracks On July 22, when the community was evacuated due to the imminent threat ...