Jasper Municipal C ouncil to consider expanding Jasper Transit Parks Canada wants Jasper Transit services to extend to Maligne Canyon. In a February 9 letter to the Municipality of Jasper, Jasper National Park Superintendent Alan Fehr said that Parks Canada is trying to encourage alternative modes o...

To: Alan Fehr Superintendent, Jasper National Park Dear Mr. Fehr, I read in the Jasper Local that you have again refused the offer of a fully funded bridge over Simon Creek on the Athabasca Pass Trail. Oneexplanation for the refusal was to "ensure that the ecological integrity of the area will be ma...

The Icefields Parkway (Hwy 93N) is anticipated to close intermittently on Monday (January 29). Avalanche control work will shut down down a 20 km section of the Icefields Parkway between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. Parks Canada says warmer temperatures in Jasper and Banff National Parks are anticipated to in...

The sky was mauve, a pale bluish purple. A colour you only see in winter. Mauve, the colour of cold. This was the night the temperature was forecast to hit minus 30 degrees Celsius.  As we struggled up from the valley the forecast seemed spot on.     I caught the smell of woodsmoke and figured our b...

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...

Parks Canada is once again asking Jasperites to help remove bear attractants from the townsite. “Residents should take steps now to remove fruit and any other potential attractants from their properties,” a statement from Jasper National Park wildlife officials reads.  Already this summer, several i...

Dear Editor: A number of decisions in Jasper National Park, including not replacing the Simon Creek Bridge, make one wonder if senior management has lost sight of what a park is for. Environmental quality matters, of course. But so does public safety and public enjoyment of a park's natural beauty. ...

On June 21, Jasper National Park celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day. Hosting the 2023 celebration were the Secwépemc (Simpcw people), or People of the River. Simpcw are part of the Shuswap Nation and have deep ancestral and contemporary connections to the land now known as Jasper National Pa...

As grizzly bears are peeking, visitors' excitement for a wildlife encounter is peaking. But so are wildlife warnings in Jasper National Park.  It's spring. Grizzly bears and black bears are out of hibernation and gorging themselves on Jasper National Park greenery. Because that nutritious vegetation...

Photos by Patrick Barker for The Jasper Local An elk that fell through a partly frozen lake in Jasper National Park was given a new lease on life by Parks Canada staff. An elk fell through spring ice on Lac Beauvert April 17. // Patrick Barker On April 17 at approximately 5 p.m., a bull elk fell thr...