Council will attend to unfinished budget deliberations on Tuesday, December 12. On December 7, the Municipality of Jasper provided notice of a Special Meeting of Council to address remaining agenda items from council’s regular meeting on Tuesday. At the December 5 meeting , councillor Rico Damota vo...

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Proposed budget doesn’t recognize what businesses are facing: JPCC       Local business owners aired their grievances on the proposed budget to Jasper Municipal Council recently.  Representatives from the Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce were among a dozen or so people in attendance for council’s Dec...

Dear Editor, This year, our school children are riding a white bus that is not following provincially legislated school bus rules, because it is, according to the Municipality of Jasper, a public transit bus providing select ridership for a special school route. This new town school route and servic...

Tourism Jasper has serious concerns about the Municipality of Jasper’s proposed 2024 budget. Representatives from the Destination Marketing Organization tabled a statement on the potential increases to Jasper’s tax requisition during the November 28 Committee of the Whole meeting . “We feel we must ...

One of Jasper’s favourite Christmas events is underway. The 23rd annual Festival of Trees celebration, presented by the Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives , is a chance for businesses, organizations and individuals to contribute to the community, all while giving holiday shoppers the chance to do...

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...

Administration requesting five new staff positions; utility rate plan paying off; paid parking generated $1M in 2023 Jasper councillors recommended supporting most of the proposed 2024 municipal budget that town administrators presented to them on Tuesday and Wednesday (Nov 21 and 22). The $36.4 mil...

Jasper RCMP members responded to a call of a deceased male under the ice at Lake Annette in Jasper National Park yesterday (November 21). On November 21, Parks Canada assisted RCMP in a recovery operation after being alerted to a body under the ice on Lake Annette.  RCMP are investigating. "Our hear...

The driver of a Jasper Transit bus that was involved in an accident was determined to not be at fault, investigators say. At approximately 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 29, a 24-passenger Ford SuperDuty transit bus crashed on Highway 16 eastbound approximately two kilometres from the Jasper townsite. Th...