Tourism Jasper endorses legacy project that will drive visitation, recruitment and the local economy Jasper Municipal Council has passed a motion to approve a project budget of $10 million for upgrades and renovations to the Jasper Activity Centre. The scope of the upgrades include expansion of the ...

Scottish weather greeted early-season golfers but a week after opening day (which was May 7), members and guests saw that last winter’s insulating snowfall has helped make course conditions at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course as good as they’ve been in decades. Ranked consistently as Numbe...

Photos by Jasper Local contributor Matt Quiring Six teams, hundreds of fans, dozens of ridiculous story lines and exactly zero NHL scouts converged at the Jasper Arena for the Jasper Hockey League’s Super Sunday on March 20, 2022. The C Final matchup saw the Outlaws and goalie Cassie Allen and the s...

Six teams, dozens of ridiculous storylines, hundreds of fans and exactly zero NHL scouts will converge March 19 for The Jasper Hockey League’s Super Sunday event. With the Jasper Arena serving as the battleground, Super Sunday will play host to three games: the A, B and C finals. Team seeding is bei...

A Rocky Mountain rider is the top dog of the desert. Jasper’s Andrew Bovard is back from a marathon mountain bike race in Utah, where after riding his bike for more than a full rotation of the earth, he was crowned the 2021 male solo champion of the 25 Hours in Frog Hollow Race . “I still can’t feel...

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-...

Jasper municipal councillors were grinding out the details on a potential new skatepark location and administration was trying to keep the conversation on the rails as comments bordered on the blunt side March 23. At council’s most recent committee of the whole meeting the town’s director of operati...

Under a cloudless, sun-drenched sky and framed by glaciated peaks in every direction, on March 10 a small group of skiers and snowboarders slid into Marmot Basin history . Taking in the new vantage point. // B COVEY For years—decades, even—local riders had looked up to the highest point at Marmot Ba...

The Jasper Arena is ready for ice, as soon as … you know Wayne Hansen of Prologic Construction was the senior supervisor of the recent arena and curling rink (shown here) upgrades. // BC COVID has brought team sports to a halt, but over at the Jasper Activity Centre, the break in action has given co...

When Gage LeBlanc tries something new, the 15-year-old goes big. BRING ON THE BUMPS // Gage LeBlanc stars in the upcoming All-Round Champion, a Reality TV series premiering on TVOntario. Catch the series starting on January 6. // BOB COVEY The first time LeBlanc tried freestyle skiing, for example, ...