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Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Any owner of the new Apple iPhone 14 should take heed of their device’s new setting that triggers emergency calls to local responders.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Jasper RCMP provided a report for the final quarter of 2022 to municipal council during its regular meeting on Feb. 7. Sgt.

On Feb. 2, 2023, Canmore RCMP and Banff RCMP began an investigation into an incident that occurred in Dec. 2022 of unlawful possession of a firearm. As a result of a joint investigation between Canmore and Banff RCMP detachments, on Feb.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Chances are very good that people much prefer to hear about avalanches than to be trapped in them.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter That bridge on Snaring Road sure has seen better days; those days are coming back for it. Supt. Alan Fehr confirmed that both the Snaring Road Bridge and the H.J.

Ann Thomas | Special to the Fitzhugh Welcome to your new Jasper Seniors Society News column, which will appear every two weeks courtesy of the Jasper Fitzhugh . We have a new executive to introduce.

Jason Stockfish | [email protected] The local branch of the Association Canadienne Française de l’Alberta (ACFA) hosted its annual Jasper Winter Pentathlon Hivernal at Mildred Lake on Feb. 4.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For six out of the first 14 days of September 2022, Jasper’s air quality went above 80 micrograms of particulate matter sized 2.5 microns or less in width per cubic metre.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The place, for lack of better phrasing, was as busy as a beehive.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Parks Canada has announced that it will be launching reservations for the 2023 visitor season beginning March 13.