Jasper resident Kim Stark wants town council to reopen the debate over bus parking in the downtown core. | File photo Fuchsia Dragon | reporter@fitzhugh.ca Is bus parking on Patricia Street a hazard or the perfect downtown drop-off? Parking in Jasper’s commercial core has sparked debate. Jasper resident Kim Stark sent a letter to the municipal council about the No Parking/Bus Zone on the 600 block of Patric ...

Fuchsia Dragon | reporter@fitzhugh.ca The Jasper library had a taste of wild last weekend at the launch of Denise Benison’s debut book, The Day We Went Into The Woods. More than 60 people went to the special event to hear the Jasper mom-of-two read her book and get a sneak peek of the next one. “It was great,” said Benison. “It was a bit wild in the kids’ section  - it was like a library party, it was ...

A survey showed 64 per cent of respondents left positive comments about the impact the free Fitness and Aquatic Centre pass had on their life Fuchsia Dragon | reporter@fitzhugh.ca Jasper’s youth have had free access to Jasper’s activity centre since the fall in an attempt to improve mental and physical wellbeing. And the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. A report was shown to the municipal council ...

Jasper National Park expects the area of red beetle-killed trees to plateau this year after nearly all of the insects were killed by last winter’s extreme cold. | File photo Fuchsia Dragon | reporter@fitzhugh.ca Jasper’s plague of pine beetles is nearly over as 98 per cent of the tree-killing bugs were wiped out by our bitterly cold winter. And once the red needles drop, new green forest will naturally rege ...

SpiritLeaf Cannabis plans to open near the end of July. It doesn’t have approval from the province yet, but town councillor and business owner Jenna McGrath has hers, and plans a June 28 opening in her existing Connaught Drive location. | F. Dragon photo Fuchsia Dragon | reporter@fitzhugh.ca Two cannabis stores are preparing to open in Jasper, but only one has the official go-ahead from the government. ...

Ryley William Miller pleaded guilty to assault after he punched another man twice in the head at the Atha-B. The victim had already been struck in the head with a glass. | File photo Fuchsia Dragon | reporter@fitzhugh.ca A man who abused a position of trust and assaulted a housekeeper has been sentenced in court. On August 29 last year, Adamson Cubol Adriano was working as a supervisor at a Jasper hotel whe ...

Craig Gilbert | publisher@fitzhugh.ca Neighbouring communities are sure to be green with envy. The Evergreens Foundation knows how to celebrate Seniors Week. In addition to a host of events held in Jasper and other member communities in the county this week, they opened up a brand new $600,000 commercial kitchen at the Alpine Summit Seniors Lodge June 6. Evergreens CAO Kristen Chambers explained that when A ...

Trail 3g Craig Gilbert | publisher@fitzhugh.ca These trail people: who are they, really? It seems like they’ve had an assist from Santa Claus this spring, able to leap piles of debris and fill otherwordly swamp slogs in a single bound. Magic Ridge, Trail 3h Or is that Superman, whose symbol also made a very Jasperian appearance on the weekend? Magic Ridge, Trail 3h It has to be both, unless the Friends of J ...

A Jasper town councillor said Tuesday three businesses gave him the gears over whether the new Hostelling International hostel would pay municipal taxes. The answer is no, unless town council passes a bylaw changing their status. | C. Gilbert photo Craig Gilbert | publisher@fitzhugh.ca Jasper town council may be preparing to change the equation for the new Hostelling International hostel under construction ...

Police found 10 beer cans, cocaine residue, meth and evidence of other drugs in a car that smashed into a truck pulled over on the shoulder of this stretch of Highway 16 in December 2015. | C. Gilbert photo Pre-trial custody credit bought Blaire MacLellan nearly a month of freedom Fuchsia Dragon | reporter@fitzhugh.ca A dangerous driver who smashed into a pulled-over truck while going at more than 100 kilom ...