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Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The province has taken a match to its old wildfire record. Alberta Wildfire has estimated that more than 1.4 million ha have already burned during the current wildfire season.

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Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Do you know your wildflowers? Ashley Hillman can help you spot Yellow Lady Slippers in the great outdoors.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Residents should prepare for an extended power outage as the wildfire in Yellowhead County threatens the substation that supplies power to Jasper.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] A fire ban is now in effect in Jasper National Park effective June 9 as the current heatwave elevates the fire danger to "extreme.

Peter Shokeir | [email protected] Plans are now in the works for a Pathway to the Park, which would connect the town of Hinton to the east gate of Jasper National Park.

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Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Industrial logging is one of the country's biggest climate polluters with more than 10 per cent of Canada’s total planet-heating emissions.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Construction is now complete on the Jasper to Mount Robson leg of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Scott Hayes | [email protected] Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It only took Parks Canada firefighting crews a few days to get the Portal Creek wildfire under control. Starting on Saturday, the blaze grew to 1.