More than a dozen community groups have come to Jasper Municipal Council in search of financial assistance in 2024. Over the last two weeks, ahead of their annual budget deliberations, Jasper councillors have heard from a variety of organizations, institutions and individuals asking for municipal su...

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...

Cory Wallace is a world 24 hour solo mountain bike champion again. The Jasper athlete defended his title at the World Endurance Mountain Bike Organization (WEMBO) World Championships on November 4-5, held this year in Armidale, Australia. It’s Wallace’s fifth time standing atop the elite men’s podiu...

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...

Moose are huge! With a dark-brown body, super long legs, large head with an elongated nose, generous lips and big ears...there is just no mistaking a moose.   Males (or bulls) can weigh up to 600 kilograms (1,300 pounds) and grow a heavy set of antlers every year which are shed after the mating seas...

On Remembrance Day, look at the old veterans gathered at your local cenotaph, standing proudly, or seated with a warm blanket on their lap. Try to imagine what they experienced many decades ago when they were young, and the world was at war. The great invasion to kick the Nazis out of France took pl...

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 Combine one part outdated regulations with two parts perfunctory dialogue 2.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

Jasper’s U11 Bears opened the season amid the chaos of missing dressing rooms , cancelled games due to ammonia leaks , and playing home games out of Hinton. Missing their home turf, the Bears were set to wrap up their tiering games on Heritage Classic weekend. Tiering games, played at the start of t...

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...

The driver of a Jasper Transit bus involved in an accident was released from hospital after a short stay and is recovering. At approximately 3:20 p.m. on Sunday, October 29, a 24-passenger Ford SuperDuty bus crashed on Highway 16 eastbound, approximately two kilometres from the Jasper townsite. The ...

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...

Parks Canada law enforcement wardens have initiated a poaching investigation after two bighorn sheep carcasses were discovered in Jasper National Park. On Tuesday, October 17, wildlife officials and wardens responded to a visitor’s report of a bighorn sheep’s carcass found near Jasper Lake, off High...

Two First Nations have signed an agreement with Parks Canada to carry out a traditional hunt in Jasper National Park. The two nations, whose traditional territories overlap the Rocky Mountains, are reawakening their relationship with each other and the landscape, said Stoney Nation spokesperson Barr...

For those of you who enjoy wishing on a star, October is a double-header for meteor showers, which means twice as much fun for meteorite lovers in Jasper Dark Sky Preserve this Fall. While you can see a few solid streaks of light in the skies above Jasper throughout the year, the prime wish-making e...

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...

A few years ago, I was helping Jasper National Park’s conservation biologist, Brenda Shepherd, conduct a survey for Black Swifts at Athabasca Falls. Black Swifts nest in canyons and even behind waterfalls. They leave the nest before sun up and don’t return until nightfall. Surveying for Black Swifts...

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...