Pride in Jasper was flying high on June 6 as the Jasper Junior/Senior High School’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) celebrated the start of Pride Month. A flag raising ceremony which hoisted the rainbow colours in front of the high school also included speeches and snacks. Speakers included 11-y...

On a day when hundreds of cyclists with the Jasper Gran Fondo were racing all over Jasper National Park’s blacktop, one lone rider was racking up kilometres with a different mountain in mind. Dean Anderson had no racer’s pinny. He wasn’t part of any peloton. And there was no participation medal for ...

There’s a new series of concerts coming to town. On Sundays evenings, starting June 18 and running all summer, live music will reverberate over the grassy field at Jasper’s Commemoration Park . The free, acoustic concerts are being spearheaded by Jasper’s Marie-Pierre Flipo-Bergeron, known by her st...

A wildfire in Jasper National Park which started after a black bear cub climbed a power pole and was electrocuted is now under control. On Saturday, June 3, at 4:40 p.m., Parks Canada staff reported smoke between Highway 93A and the Athabasca River, approximately 10 kilometres south of the Jasper to...

Dressed in Sunday red, balanced perfectly on her follow-through and watching her golf ball arc above a stand of aspens on the hardest ranked hole at Stanley Thompson’s Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club, 27-year-old Lydia Ingman is in her element. From dead centre of the pinched fairway on “Tekarra’s Cut,”...

Jasper National Park has lifted its fire ban as of today, May 24. Parks Canada says recent rain, combined with cooler temperatures in the forecast, have reduced the likelihood of human-caused wildfire ignition. The fire ban in the townsite has also been lifted, according to the Municipality of Jaspe...

Jasper National Park staff were scrambling to rebook hundreds of campground reservations after damaged facilities at Wabasso and Whistlers Campgrounds disrupted visitors’ long weekend camping plans. In preparing for the camping season at Wabasso Campground earlier this week, Parks Canada staff disco...

West Yellowhead’s NDP candidate Fred Kreiner has elected not to participate in Jasper’s scheduled all-candidates forum. “I’ve decided and the NDP party has decided that our efforts are better used knocking on doors and talking to people,” Kreiner told The Jasper Local on May 15. The Jasper Park Cham...

As grizzly bears are peeking, visitors' excitement for a wildlife encounter is peaking. But so are wildlife warnings in Jasper National Park.  It's spring. Grizzly bears and black bears are out of hibernation and gorging themselves on Jasper National Park greenery. Because that nutritious vegetation...

Jasper National Park is issuing a fire ban. The ban is effective Thursday, May 11. Parks Canada announced the fire ban in partnership with the Municipality of Jasper. “The fire ban will help firefighting resources be more readily available where they are needed most and reduce the likelihood of any ...