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Alberta recorded a modest decline in homicides with 115 reported in 2023, down from 119 in 2022.

The Mayor’s Special Award is the highest possible recognition that can be bestowed by the Municipality of Jasper. Each year, council receives nominations and reviews all submissions, and the mayor has the honour of presenting them.

"How many times has this topic been an election issue or the subject of a high-level report to council? Yet it seems we’re about to kick empty air again."

Canada Post is resuming operations after a month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers left letters and parcels in limbo.

The Jasper-Yellowhead Historical Society has also launched an Adopt an Animal campaign to support the museum and archives post-wildfire.

"Caribou herds need at least 65 percent of their range to be undisturbed to have a shot at survival. Currently, six of Alberta’s caribou ranges have less than 10 percent undisturbed habitat remaining, and some – like the Little Smoky Herd – have less than one percent remaining."

While mail is set to begin moving again on Tuesday as Canada Post employees return to work, key "structural issues" at the centre of the month-long strike remain outstanding heading into the next phase of negotiations.

"Don’t forget to visit the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum’s Festival of Trees Christmas Wonderland, which continues until Dec. 22."

The ripple effect of the wildfire that devastated the town of Jasper last summer could continue to reverberate through Alberta's tourism sector in 2025, industry insiders say.

During these outbreaks, 2,352 patients and 660 health care workers tested positive for COVID.