Whisky lovers, both neophyte and barrel-aged, descended on the Maligne Range during Jasper in January for the inaugural meeting of the Jasper Whisky Social Club.  Brainchild of Spike Baker, Distiller and Barrel Manager for the Maligne Range , and Marc LeBlanc, owner of Liquor Lodge , the JWSC tapped...

Girls' hockey took centre ice over the weekend in Jasper. The second annual Female Hockey Day in Jasper brought to town female players, coaches, trainers and community leaders. Teams and their supporters came from Edmonton, Hinton, Valemount and in the case of the Wheatland Wranglers, all the way fr...

An Alberta storyteller whose roots will always be firmly planted in Jasper is coming back to her hometown to relay Some of the Facts . Author and creative writing instructor Beth Everest, the daughter of Jasper business patriarch Roy Everest, will read from her latest book at the Jasper Municipal Li...

Jasper council is considering a proposal to create a temporary pop-up business village on Connaught Drive. The pop up village would be potentially located in the 600 block of Connaught Drive, in the parking lot with the municipal public washrooms. Council heard that the village would give businesses...

Jasperites finally have some answers about interim housing. Details about the type, layout and anticipated location of Parks Canada-procured interim housing have been released by the Jasper Recovery Coordination Centre. According to the JRCC, approximately 100 duplex-style trailers, representing up ...

Community Futures West Yellowhead is reminding Jasper employers that they may be eligible for business recovery funding. Available through the Jasper Business Recovery Program , the grant money is available to businesses with 50 or fewer employees that are licensed in either the Municipality of Jasp...

Rent is rising in Jasper, and with it, tenants’ anxiety about being able to afford to live here. Last week, residents in the 36 units of the “Walk Ups” (1004 Patricia Street apartments) were sent notice that starting May 1, 2025, their rents were going up—from $1,500 to $2,000, in the case of one co...

For 30 years, Kevin Martin was one of the country’s top curlers and since the mid-1990s, his was one of a handful of household names in the sport. Although he amassed many championships, trophies and awards—including the gold medal which capped his career at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver—the...

The Jasper Winter Pentathlon is a made-in-Jasper event which brings together much of what makes the community great: diverse culture, outdoor recreation, connection to nature and community spirit. Teams of up to five participants compete for fastest time, and fittest costume, at the ACFA Jasper Wint...

A couple of weeks ago a grizzly was reported on the Pyramid Bench, playing in the ice and snow.  Grizzly prints in Jasper reported January 8, 2025. // Courtesy Jasper National Park More recently, an entire team of the powerful animals—the U18 Jasper Grizzlies—emerged to host what might be their fina...

Jasperites marched in solidarity against the lack of progress on interim housing January 24. Six months to the day after the homes of approximately 2,000 people living in Jasper burned in the largest wildfire ever recorded in Jasper National Park, hundreds of demonstrators showed their unity with di...

At 53 degrees north in January, dark comes quick. But during Jasper in January , that’s a good thing: since January 10, Jasper in January’s After Dark Series has been lighting up the night! In 2025, an incredible line up of artists, song writers, DJs, comedians and unique performers have graced vari...

Wild Aerial to screen during Jasper in January An aerial athlete and climate champion who lost her home and possessions in the Jasper Wildfire is bringing attention to the mountains’ fragile alpine environments via a celebration of all things winter. Together with filmmaker Trixie Pacis, Sasha Galit...

It’s been six months since Jasper was evacuated due to the threat of a massive wildfire roaring down the Athabasca Valley. On Friday, January 24, it will be exactly six months since thousands of Jasperites learned that their homes, businesses and everything in them burnt to the ground . And on Satur...

A skating trainer with a championship pedigree was back in the Jasper Arena recently, 25 years after he first got on the ice here. Gaston Schaeffer, a former Swiss junior champion figure skater who toured with the Ice Capades, Holiday on Ice and who coached in the 1988 Olympics, first came to Jasper...

There were 64 new Jaspers in Alberta last year. Alberta’s vital statistics, including all of the baby names from Alberta births, were published on January 20. Each year Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction, the provincial department responsible for vital statistics, publishes a list of Alberta’s t...

As Jasper National Park staff work to open the caribou conservation centre , another Parks Canada facility has been declared closed. The Palisades Stewardship and Education Centre (or Palisades Centre) in Jasper National Park was one of the first areas to be impacted by the Jasper Wildfire. This wil...

Curtain Call, Polar Circus, Weeping Wall…Patricia Street? One of these Rocky Mountain ice climbing classics is not like the other. However, thanks to the creative minds at Rockaboo Mountain Adventures and with support from Travel Alberta, ice climbing is rising up in downtown Jasper. Along with ice ...

Like thousands of snow thirsty Albertans, I will always love riding at Marmot Basin.  Despite our local mountain not always being in the same condensation conversation as resorts in B.C.’s snowy interior or on the wet coast, unequivocally, some of my most fun days on snow have been at Marmot. Openin...

U18 Bearcats contests highlight a weekend of Jasper Minor Sports matchups If you were at the Jasper Arena this past weekend for the first annual Jasper Hockey Days weekend, you might have felt a certain buzz. Was it excitement? Nostalgia? Happiness, pride, nervousness, camaraderie or rivalry? It was...