A third-generation Jasperite and life-long ski racer has his sights set on the top of the mountain. For the past 10 years, Jesse Kertesz-Knight has dedicated his life to becoming the best ski racer that he can be. This past spring, after posting impressive results in slalom and giant slalom, the 18-...

Right now, the face of progress in Jasper is a proposed high-density apartment complex that will push parking issues to the brink and house 144 prospective tenants in units so small that developers need special permission to build them. The Municipality of Jasper has hired contractors to tie in util...

The Jasper Community Housing Corporation was supportive of the release of land for private apartment rental development, according to meeting minutes obtained by The Jasper Local. At the June 17, 2021 Planning and Development Advisory Committee (PDAC) meeting, proponents of a high density “micro” un...

Shirley Dorin didn’t have any children, but she had hundreds of kids. The longtime community ambassador, staple of concessionary care and kindness, giver of treats, baker of butter tarts and rememberer of young people’s names passed away October 6.She was 70-years-old. Shirley had an uncanny knack f...

You won’t see Richard Ireland on the campaign trail. Even though, for the first time in two decades, Ireland is facing a serious threat to his six-term run as Jasper’s only mayor, the incumbent is not canvassing for residents’ votes, handing out fliers nor booking any advertising spots. Other than t...

Whichever way the election turns out, Jasper mayoral candidate Paul Butler says his single regret will be that he will no longer will have the opportunity to work alongside fellow 2021 candidate Richard Ireland. If Butler wins more votes than Ireland, Jasper will have a new mayor for the first time ...

National Truth and Reconciliation Day event an opportunity for learning together On National Truth and Reconciliation Day Jasper will have the opportunity to learn the Truth about what transpired a century ago when the Indigenous People practicing a traditional lifestyle here were evicted from the a...

A blockade protesting the planned harvest of 3,500 hectares of old growth caribou habitat has been erected 75 kms south of Grande Cache near the Berland River. Last week, land defenders erected a rudimentary barrier to stop West Fraser Forest Product workers from accessing the Moon Creek forestry ro...

As a youngster, Guillaume Roy wanted to be mayor of the small town he grew up in. “I’ve always liked to talk politics, share ideas and opinions,” said Roy, who grew up in Mascouche, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. The 28-year-old will have no shortage of opportunities to engage in political discourse....

A Grande Cache Metis organization is preparing to seek a prohibitory injunction to halt a Hinton-based logging company’s planned harvest of 3,500 hectares of critical caribou habitat. The Mountain Metis Nation Association, an umbrella organization of the Metis Nation of Alberta, says the Moon Creek ...