Local News

For the second year in a row, the Jasper Heritage Rodeo Association is asking for a break on the rental cost at the Jasper Activity Centre. The municipality increased the cost to $16,822 last year, bringing it up 240 per cent.

Putting Jasper on the eco-map Jasper is getting its first public charging station for electric cars.

High school update Progress continues at the Jasper Joint School Facility. According to a report provided to the Grande Yellowhead School Division, the exterior masonry block walls and ceramic bathroom floors have been completed.

Council will vote on the proposed capital budget for 2014—in the amount of nearly $4.6 million—at its April 1 regular meeting. The budget includes funding for the library and cultural centre—up to the $8.

N. Veerman photo The fifth year of Jasper Pride Weekend was the biggest party yet.

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

Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives If it wasn’t for a disgruntled railroad employee, who knows when Jasper’s children would have started school. In 1914, Webb B.

N. Veerman photo In the months leading up to a show, Claude Boocock uses her home as her own personal gallery, hanging her latest work on every accessible nail.

Submitted photo The trip from Alberta to Antarctica, to compete in the Antarctica Marathon and Half Marathon, starts with a 19-hour plane ride to Ushusia, the southernmost city in the world.

Creative commons photo Jasper’s ol’ Zamboni—which was almost the lone causality in the Jan. 26 arena fire—will live to see another day. This news comes after the machine was assessed for a third time.