On August 9 Jasper residents and visitors will have the chance to shop for fruit, baked goods, home cooking, veggies, preserves, art, plants and more…and help disadvantaged families in Guatemala while doing so. The annual Summer Fair at the Jasper Activity Centre takes place from 4-8 p.m. This year,...

More than 30 families in Jasper are using the food bank as a regular part of their family’s food budget, an increase of 500 per cent from pre-pandemic usage. The issue was brought up at a recent community conversation between members of municipal council, Jasper Local Food Society representatives an...

Gregory is dead. Long live Gregory Guest columnist: Joe Urie To those peacock provocateurs, Jasper’s Joe Urie asks: Where is the outrage for the national park’s native species that are destroyed every year? “News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the p...

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Dozens of students, volunteers, parents, teenagers and adults—young and otherwise—helped members of OUTJasper make Jasper’s downtown more vibrant and inclusive June 25. Mychol Ormandy, executive director of OUTJasper, was visibly moved by the show of support from the community. “Their support means ...

Hoots, hollers, cheers and tears were emanating from the Lobstick Lodge for the debut of Jasper Theatre Productions ‘ outrageous new show, From Jasper, With Love. On June 26, in anticipation of the production’s June 28 public premiere, a local audience filled the seats of the Lobstick’s Skyline Loun...

Jasper Rotary Club members were serving up borscht (beet soup), holubtsi (cabbage rolls), varenyky (pierogies) and heaping helpings of goodwill towards the newest members of the community June 18. The Jasper Welcomes Ukraine fundraiser featured a dinner, silent auction and performances by two talent...

On heels of Education Minister’s visit, one Jasper school board will pilot, one won’t Conseil scolaireCentre-Nord , the school board that Jasper’s École Desrochers belongs to, will pilot parts of the Alberta government’s draft K-6 curriculum next school year. Tanya Saumure, chair of the board of sch...

Two grizzly bears that had been habituated to using the Jasper townsite have been captured and relocated to a remote part of Jasper National Park. The three-year-old siblings, which were “skinny and food-stressed,” according to Parks Canada human-wildlife conflict specialist Steve Malcolm, were capt...

The Razorback Prescribed Burn on the Pyramid Bench has been delayed. Conditions did not come into prescription. From Jasper National Park May 25, 2022 Fires are important for our forests. Prescribed fires are planned burns that are managed by our fire specialists. They help improve the health of the...