This piece was originally published in the February issue of The Tomato Food and Drink magazine Nine months after wildfire devastated Jasper, 86-ing at least a dozen well-loved cafés and restaurants in a town that loves to dine, the service industry is rising up again. It’s not quite cork-popping ti...

Local pride is flying high in anticipation of the annual Jasper Pride and Ski Festival. As it’s done for 16 years now, the festival is once again flaunting Jasper’s diverse and welcoming community. From April 4-13, Jasper Pride will bring in flocks of unique visitors to the community and surrounding...

One of Jasper’s best-loved eateries is giving a new meaning to the phrase “take-away.” After the space they leased was destroyed by last year’s wildfire, owners of the popular Patricia Street Deli are moving their operation out of the mountains and into the city. “Out of the ashes comes opportunity,...

Pushback on the proposed Patricia St. location swayed council to keep with administration's original proposal. The pop up business village is expected to launch on the May long weekend. The Municipality of Jasper is sticking with the Connaught Drive parking lot as the location for its pop-up busines...

Temporary village intended to host businesses displaced by wildfire The Municipality of Jasper is considering an alternative location for the proposed pop-up business village this summer: in the public parking lot in the 400 block of Patricia Street. Simultaneously, council is deliberating on allowi...

Michael Fark, the Municipality of Jasper’s Director of Recovery, has been selected as the 2025 Liberal candidate for Yellowhead. While as of March 27 the party hadn't officially announced his nomination, Fark confirmed to The Jasper Local that he is the expected candidate. The writ was dropped on Su...

A new alpine facility will be built at Robson Pass, in B.C.’s Mount Robson Provincial Park. The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC ) has the go-ahead to construct a two-storey, 12-person alpine hut near iconic Berg Lake , at the doorstep of mighty Mount Robson. “We’re super excited,” said Keith Haberl, the ...

If you could bottle community spirit, two things are for certain. One : inside that bottle you’d have the same stuff that helps keep the lights on at the Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives . And two : the volunteers at the JYMA would recycle the bottle for a refund. For the last four years, retir...

Canada’s newly-minted Prime Minister is announcing a mint for Jasper’s rebuild. Prime Minister Mark Carney today (Thursday, March 20, 2025) announced a $187 million investment to help repair and rebuild critical infrastructure in Jasper National Park. The funding, provided to Parks Canada over two y...

Calling all local youth with aspirations to free-ski or snowboard…The Jasper Freeride Club wants to ride with you! Jasper Freeride Club members have the chance to ski at different club competitions in Alberta. // Supplied This weekend (March 22 and 23) and again on April 12-13, Jasper Freeride is ex...

Pre-game tributes honour fallen Jasperites The JFI Bonestars are Jasper Hockey League champions again. The regular season leaders disappointed neither their fans nor the bookies as the far-and-away favourites fought off the underdog Outlaws—who were returning to the A-Final once again on the strengt...

Despite the 2024 Jasper wildfire, Pursuit is forecasting a strong recovery of leisure travel in Jasper for 2025. At its March 11 shareholders meeting, David Barry, President and CEO of Pursuit Attractions and Hospitality, reported strong fourth-quarter earnings in 2024, despite the company losing ne...

Jasperites were on the airwaves last week. Listeners to terrestrial radio heard a pot-pourri of Jasper recovery stories and successes on CBC Radio One on Friday, March 14 when the popular morning show Edmonton AM broadcast live from Andromeda Coffee on Patricia Street.  Some of the behind the scenes...

A Utah-based artist whose favourite subjects to paint are rugged, rough-hewn and rigorous, figures he’ll have plenty of inspiration in Jasper this weekend. Stewart Anstead is an acrylics painter who incorporates mixed media in his works to evoke nostalgia, and to explore human interaction with natur...

The Municipality of Jasper is seeking input on the local rental market amid housing challenges. In the wake of recent reports of double digit rent hikes and updates to lease terms that may impact families, the MOJ is reaching out to tenants and landlords. “Housing was already a challenge in Jasper b...

UPDATED: The Icefields Parkway (Hwy93N) has been reopened. The parkway was closed on Saturday, March 8 through to Monday, March 10 . A winter storm was forecast to hit Jasper and Banff National Park March 9-10, bringing as much as 45 cm of snow, according to Parks Canada. "If the full force of this ...

Jasper’s fire-stalled economy has been given another big boost to help it crank over. Yesterday (March 6, 2025), the federal government announced $2.2 million in funding to provide temporary retail locations for local businesses, to advance affordable housing, to help enable efficient construction i...

The union has not yet provided 72-hour strike notice or indicated when it might do that. Workers with the Grande Yellowhead Public School Division may soon join a province-wide strike for higher wages and more education funding. One hundred and sixty support staff voted 82 per cent in favour of stri...

Jasper’s youth were all over the ice and the slopes last weekend (March 1-2), putting pucks in nets and picking up cowbells. Let’s start with the Jasper Junior Olympics . The annual race at Marmot Basin is one of the largest youth ski races in North America, featuring 350 athletes from 5 to 11-years...

A Jasperite has been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal. Municipal councillor Helen Kelleher-Empey was presented with the honour on February 28 by Yellowhead Member of Parliament Gerald Soroka. Along with her council duties, Kelleher-Empey is a board member of the Evergreens Foundation , ...