On Hockey Day in Canada, the Jasper U11 Bears celebrated Canada’s national winter sport by going on their longest road trip of the year, to the Land of Whispering Hills (according to the road sign). Sharing the same river as our little mountain town, Athabasca, Alberta is home to historic brick buil...

As of Monday, Jasper was third in league standings with 25 points (leader at 30) with 3 games in hand The Jasper U15 Bearcats won two out of three home games this past weekend, showing that even with a short bench they can out-skate bigger, brawnier opponents. The Bearcats went 2-1 this weekend, wit...

The Jasper U15 Bearcats are coming off a winning weekend on the road, having had their way with Whitecourt (12-7) and eking out two victories against Mayerthorpe (5-2; 4-3). Now the squad is heading back to their home court, and they're looking for fan support. UPDATED: The action starts this Sunday...

It’s December and I’m swinging a golf club. This isn’t a “bros trip” to Scottsdale or Vegas, and I’m a couple decades away from retiring on Vancouver Island. The Stanley Thompson-designed 18-hole course at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club has gone into hibernation and it’ll be a good six mon...

The Jasper Arena’s temporary dressing rooms got their first tournament test of the 2023/24 hockey season last weekend. On December 16 and 17 the Jasper Junior Grizzlies U11-U13 Girls hosted their Hockey in the Rockies tournament. Teams from Fort Saskatchewan, St. Paul and Edmonton made the trip to J...

The Jasper Bears left town on Saturday morning bound for Edson, but that was just the start of a 1,250 km weekend road trip. Silly? Yes.But that’s life on the western edge of the North Eastern Alberta Hockey League . The Bears started slow in their first game in Edson, spotting the Sabres a goal jus...

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’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...

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 ...

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...