Local News

After a long career at the Jasper Education and Employment Centre (JEEC), outgoing executive director Ginette Marcoux is leaving her work at the top of her game and with the organization in good shape.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Their names might be new to the Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce (JPCC), but their faces are undoubtedly very familiar to all in the local business community.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] The Fitzhugh is the one making the news this week. As of October 2023, Jasper’s local newspaper will be published by St. Albert-based Great West Media.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] The Jasper Fitzhugh has won three awards in the 2022 Better Newspaper Competition (BNC) Awards, two for photography and one for advertising.

Although he is far away from his family in Jasper and around Alberta, Tristen Brown is thinking of home. More specifically, he is thinking about Indigenous housing.

Hinton RCMP has received reports of possible trafficking of foreign workers in the area.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Canada’s first astronaut to go to space will be speaking at the Forest Park Hotel on Oct. 12 as part of this year’s Jasper Dark Sky Festival.

Canada's tragic legacy of the Indian residential school system and the Sixties Scoop affects thousands of people every day.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The gallery was full when members of three different guiding organizations formed a delegation at last week's Jasper municipal council meeting requesting a letter of support.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Hinton offered a sneak peek of its new affordable housing, which consists of 10 modular units, during an open house on Sept. 20.