A rock slide has forced the Mounties to close a highway near Alberta's boundary with British Columbia. RCMP say they have shut down a portion of Highway 16, about 12 kilometres west of Jasper, Alta. Read More

One of the main routes through the mountains connecting Alberta and B.C. is currently impassable.RCMP confirm a rock slide early Saturday morning has forced the closure of Highway 16 in both ... Read More

Two female high school students from Hinton, Alta., were killed in a collision on Highway 16 Monday evening. The 17- and 18-year-old Harry Collinge High School students were also members of the Jasper ... Read More

The RCMP is controlling access to Highway 16 within the park in both directions. Earlier Wednesday, the Alberta government said Highway 16 would open to limited commercial traffic within the day. Read More

EDMONTON - WILDFIRE UPDATE - Alberta recorded just three new wildfires over the ... Visit 511.alberta.ca. Jasper Area - Highway 16, 40, 93A and 93 closures: Highway 16 westbound from the junction with ... Read More

Visibly exhausted from a night of work, which started with a hasty drive to Jasper National Park, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services (EFRS) firefighter, Roy Penner, estimated that a third of the town had ... Read More

A last-ditch effort to use controlled burns to reroute the fire to natural barriers like Highway 16 and the Athabasca River failed due ... would bring some relief. Alberta Forestry Minister Todd ... Read More

One of two wildfires threatening the townsite in Jasper National Park has reached the southern outskirts of the Alberta Rockies community ... the fire to large holding features such as Highway 16 and ... Read More

Parks Canada and the Jasper Fire Department responded in the late afternoon. Smoke was visible from Highway 16. After containing the wildfire, crews then focused on extinguishing the fire within the ... Read More