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...

Four dudes, 1,200 kilometres, two golf courses, 6,450 yards and 506 strokes. Those were the numbers for the representatives from Jasper Jr./Sr. High School at the Alberta Schools Athletic Association’s (ASAA) 2023 Provincial Golf Tournament. Four dudes: Drew Kovacs, Casey Peel, Lincoln Radloff and A...

Jasper's Slow Pitch League crowned its champions on August 20 after a fantastic final series of games to close out the baseball season. The A-Finals championship game saw the Fit-Mitts edge out the Gangsters in a contest that came down to the last pitch. The B-Finals winners were the Bonestars and t...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is that sensation among overconfident newcomers that they have incredible natural abilities, mere moments after learning a new skill. That inflated confidence has been termed “Mount Stupid” that is quickly followed by the “Valley of Despair” once reality makes an appearance...

For all the routes he’s ridden, for all the countries he’s cycled and for all the trails he’s traversed, for Cory Wallace, when it comes to mountain bike training, there’s still no place like home. But before residents of Jasper, AB and citizens of McBride, B.C., puff up too big with pride, Wallace—...

Service disruptions at the Jasper Activity Centre and the Jasper Arena will impact access to the building, limit use of the facility and put the squeeze on local businesses this winter. Jasper Municipal Council heard yesterday (July 11) that the next phase of the Jasper Activity Centre Renovation Pr...

Early July 7, after having won their regional league, Jasper’s U13 boys’ soccer team pulled out of town to head to the rural provincial championships. They left the mountains and foothills behind, passed through cities and towns, and drove by canola fields and giant perogies before the team and thei...

In Jasper, the soccer season is short and intense. It’s a tiny two-month blip between the seemingly interminable hockey season and the madness of summer vacation. But it’s a season that many of the players look forward to all year—if you’ve ever walked by the schoolyard at lunch hour in the winter, ...

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 ...