Organizers, artists and partakers of the 2024 UpLift! Mural Festival are soaring on the thermals of another successful celebration of art in Jasper. The festival, now in its third year, has brought more vibrancy to walls around the community. And because Parks Canada has softened its stance on forma...

Changes will send chills through municipal councils and create a lot of grief for MLAs  It has been very interesting to watch over the past week how Premier  Danielle Smith ’s United Conservative Party government has unrolled its suite of changes to municipal governance and local election laws, and ...

Jasper National Park has implemented area closures to give grizzly bears, black bears and calving elk room to roam. Grizzly bears are in the Jasper valley bottoms. Area closures along Trail 7 are in place to give them room. // Simone Heinrich Trail 7 along the south and east borders of the Jasper Pa...

Jasper’s outfitter lifestyle stars in entertaining, enlightening read Geologist Patrick McLaren has created a solid bedrock on which to recount his charming memoirs. Magic Travels: The Unlikely Adventures of a Geologist is McLaren’s first book. The title presents an unassuming facade, but what lies ...

Brian and I glanced at each other nervously, then raised our binoculars back to our eyes and continued scanning the horizon. Nothing. We had been dropped off in the middle of a vast black spruce bog in Wood Buffalo National Park. We were to have lunch while our helicopter pilot flew back to the fuel...

Guests of the Jasper SkyTram got an unexpected helicopter ride down from the top of Whistlers Mountain after high winds shut down the tramway for the afternoon.  On Tuesday, May 7, one of Jasper’s pre-eminent visitor attractions was hit with strong wind gusts, contributing to factors which ultimatel...

Victims were sleeping while thieves stole electronics, bikes and keys to vehicle Three suspects connected to a recent break-and-enter at a family home in Jasper have been arrested by RCMP officers.  On April 26, Jasper RCMP received a report of a break-and-enter at a residence in Jasper. The victims...

Jasper National Park has reopened the Maligne Lake Road after avalanche control monitoring. The closure was lifted at 3 p.m. today (May 2). It began May 1 at 12 p.m. and was in place in the wake of 25 cm of snow that fell between Tuesday, April 30 and Thursday, May 2. The storm, which increased the ...

More than 1,300 racers descended on Jasper April 27 for the annual Jasper Canadian Rockies Half Marathon, organized by MultisportCanada. Participants signed up for the half marathon (21 km), 10 km, 5 km or 1 km "fun run." One of those participating in the fun run was 96-year-old Kate Schurer, from N...

Parks Canada and Alberta Fish and Wildlife are reminding industry partners about the hazards of intervening in life-and-death situations involving wildlife. On March 11, Alberta Fish and Wildlife’s Hinton office received an atypical call from CN dispatchers after a bighorn sheep was injured on the r...