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2 days ago | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Regional service is intended to support wildfire-displaced Jasperites unable to live in the townsiteThe new transit service will provide five round trips per day between Jasper and Hinton as well as seven round trips per day to Marmot Meadows, the interim housing site south of town. Couns. Ralph Melnyk and Helen Kelleher-Empey both excused themselves due to conflicts of interest, and Coun. Kathleen Waxer was not in attendance. To achieve quorum, Coun.
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1 week ago | 
cdnfirefighter.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
May 28, 2025, Mercoal, Alta. – Firefighters are combating an out-of-control wildfire southeast of Hinton that was 284 hectares in size as of Tuesday (May 27). The wildfire, which was previously 393 hectares, is located six kilometres west of Mercoal and 16 kilometres southwest of Robb, east of Jasper National Park in the Rocky Mountain foothills.
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1 week ago | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
“It’s a really incredible time to visit Jasper, to bear witness to a large natural disaster and to see what it means for the ecology of the park and to understand it is part of the natural cycle of the ecosystem here in Jasper.”Although the landscape may look different in Jasper National Park this summer, the offerings largely remain the same.
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3 weeks ago | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Vicious Cycle’s pop-up location opened on May 1; eight more businesses are expected to move in over the next two months until an official launch on the Canada Day long weekend. Vicious Cycle is the first business to open its temporary location at the new pop-up village for businesses displaced by the Jasper wildfire. The pop-up shop opened on May 1, with around eight more businesses expected to move in over the next two months until an official launch on the Canada Day long weekend.
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3 weeks ago | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Jasper council opts not to reduce 2025 budget
Mayor Richard Ireland emphasized that if the province had not promised to provide financial stabilization funding, council would have been forced to review and likely amend the budget. On Tuesday (May 13), committee of the whole directed administration to bring forward the 2025 tax rate bylaw reflecting the approved 2025 budget.
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3 weeks ago | 
princegeorgenow.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Meg Markulin was 38 weeks pregnant and expecting to give birth any day when the wildfires began burning through Jasper National Park last summer. Because she had a two-strand umbilical cord rather than the usual three blood vessels, there were concerns about her going into labour. “They had monitoring here at the hospital, and during one of the sessions I was doing, which was the Thursday before we got evacuated, I was having contractions, and his heart rate had dropped,” Markulin said.
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1 month ago | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Alberta Politics, Federal politics, Local Government, News
Straight up: We asked, some answered.
Yellowhead’s federal election candidates answer 7 Questions about their 2025 campaign in their own (typed) wordsEditor’s Note: The Jasper Local reached out to the three mainstream candidates running for political office in Yellowhead. We are presenting the campaign teams’ answers in the order we received them. We did not reach out to all candidates.
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2 months ago | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Council votes to keep pop up businesses on Connaught
Pushback on the proposed Patricia St. location swayed council to keep with administration’s original proposal. The pop up business village is expected to launch on the May long weekend.
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2 months ago | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Pop-up business village now proposed for Patricia St.
Temporary village intended to host businesses displaced by wildfireSimultaneously, council is deliberating on allowing Rockaboo Mountain Adventures to keep its 15 metre-tall climbing wall in the same parking lot year-round, for three years. Council heard the case for placing the pop-up village on Patricia Street, rather than a parking lot in the 600 block of Connaught Drive, at its Tuesday (March 25, 2025) meeting.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
jasperlocal.com | Peter Shokeir |Jasper Fitzhugh
Grande Yellowhead School Division workers vote to strike
The union has not yet provided 72-hour strike notice or indicated when it might do that. One hundred and sixty support staff voted 82 per cent in favour of strike action. The results were counted on Friday (Feb. 28). “The average school support worker in Alberta makes $34,500,” said Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Alberta President Rory Gill in a news release. “Many workers have gone ten years without a wage increase.
