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Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Council has decided to keep its batteries charging up before pressing play on its e-bike sharing pilot project.

Jasper RCMP, with the assistance of a local resident, was able to thwart a bicycle theft ring on May 1, 2023. Three individuals are currently in custody with several charges pending as the investigation is unfolding.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The province delivered a $1,544,070 boost to the Municipality of Jasper’s project to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant.

Kristina Bergen | Special to the Fitzhugh As the first shades of green herald Spring’s return to Jasper Dark Sky Preserve, it's getting warm enough to spend some serious time studying the sky.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Backcountry users are being warned about a dramatic increase in temperatures that is expected to destabilize the snowpack and cause dangerous avalanches.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Rick Antonson has never really left the tourism industry, despite now enjoying a career as an author.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] The Municipality of Jasper will offer free passes for its recreation facilities to residents 75 and over beginning by June 1 and continuing annually thereafter.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter If Jasper National Park was a corporation, then its Annual Public Forum would be considered its annual general meeting with all Jasperites as shareholders. Supt.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The public can expect prescribed fires on the landscape once again.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A member of the public made the right call when they phoned in an elk in distress to Jasper National Park dispatch in the early evening of April 17.