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Although an outdoor rodeo would be ideal, and it could quickly solve all of the issues surrounding the use of the Jasper Arena, it seems unlikely that one will occur this summer.

Council passed the buck to Parks Canada, April 15, when it voted to support an outdoor rendition of the Jasper Heritage Rodeo with a $10,000 grant. That decision was made despite the fact that Parks hasn’t yet approved a location, let alone the idea.

From housing prices to the push for street performers, laws governing development and expansion are an inescapable and omnipresent part of life in Jasper.

T. Nichols photo The controversial Glacier Skywalk is ready to host its first paying customers.

Tom Wright, the long-time owner and operator of Jasper Rock and Jade, was a "mentor and father figure" to current owners Anna Murray and Neil Byatt.

R. Fletcher photo Despite a successful 2013, the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives faces some significant challenges this year, according to the president of the Jasper-Yellowhead Historical Society, Herb Robinson.

Submitted photo In a mere 19 days, 36 of Jasper’s youth travelled through Germany, Poland and Czech Republic, seeing everything from the Berlin Wall to the Auschwitz Memorial Museum.

T. Nichols photo “The thing about tackling is it’s 90 per cent heart and 10 per cent skill,” Marshall Corbett said, as the semi-circle of high schoolers kneeling around him nodded.

Parks Canada Fire Management update Jasper is a fire adapted landscape. The plants and animals living here are adapted to fire because, for thousands of years, wildfires naturally and frequently burned through our valley bottoms.

Jorge Polio photo “Don’t mind my voice,” Sarah Smith rasps over the phone, “I’ve got a bit of a thing going on.” Sitting in her pyjamas and slippers at her London, Ont. home, the singer/songwriter explains she is battling a sore throat.