Supply chain issues for required materials contribute to latest delay Jasper Aquatic Centre renovations have hit another hurdle and the Municipality of Jasper will have to delay the re-opening of the facility by approximately six weeks. Unforeseen supply chain issues with the future change room’s pa...

The Municipality of Jasper is looking to build a home for public transit. The MOJ’s Tuesday, February 27 Committee of the Whole meeting saw councillors approve, by a 4-3 margin, a motion to direct administration to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to build Jasper’s first ever public transit fleet...

Paid Parking is Jasper’s cash cow that keeps growing The Municipality of Jasper's administrative team is suggesting to council that Jasper can get more out of its paid parking program. CAO Bill Given is putting forward that Committee of the Whole recommend council expand the town's paid parking prog...

Two of Jasper’s most responsive, health-giving and helpful citizens have been recognized for their ongoing contributions to the community.  Advanced care paramedic Rob Prinz, and food services professional Glenda MacDowell, with her consummate duty-of-care for residents, visitors and anyone else who...

Not all onboard with transit plan   Jasper municipal councillors have approved Jasper’s 2024 operating and capital budgets, but members of the local tourism bureau remain concerned for Jasper’s fiscal future.  After six marathon sessions to deliberate on what administration presented to them on Nove...

Despite asbestos issues, larger-than-anticipated demolition scope and "rats' nests" of wiring" to untangle, renovation is still more cost effective than total rebuild, project managers say A facility tour of Jasper’s under-construction recreation facilities has opened local officials’ eyes as to the...

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...

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...

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 ...

Jasper Municipal Council is keeping a 51-year relationship with its Japanese Twin City alive. Despite some councillors wanting to skip the trip this year, a majority of voices around the Committee of the Whole table on Tuesday, May 9, voted in favour of sending a delegation to Hakone, Japan, in 2023...