There is one game in the Northwest Junior Hockey League playoffs Wednesday night.Dawson Creek travels to Peace River. The Navigators lead the best-of-five series 2-0.Last night, Fort St. John beat visiting Fairview 7-3 to take a 2-1 series lead. Game 4 Friday in Fairview.In the North Peace Hockey League last night, Fal...

NWJHLThe Wheat Kings are the first team to advance to the second round of the Northwest Junior Hockey League playoffs.A 5-4 Sunday in Beaverlodge completed a three-game sweep for the Wheat Kings.The NWJHL playoffs resume Tuesday with Fairview in Fort St. John. They are tied 1-1.Wednesday, Dawson Creek in Peace River. T...

The Grande Prairie Storm are on a four game win streak following a double-defeat of Calgary this weekend at Bonnetts Energy Centre. The Storm hosted the Canucks on Saturday and Sunday. Grande Prairie swept the series with scores of 4-2 and 4-3, respectively.GP now sits second in the AJHL North Division and league with ...

StormThe Storm hosts Calgary Saturday night at 6 in the Alumni Game and Sunday afternoon at 2 in the Billet Appreciation Game.Grande Prairie is in second place in the AJHL's North Division, three points behind first-place Whitecourt.The Wolverines have two games in hand.NWJHL The rundown of NWJHL games this weekend ca...

The Strike Group North West Junior Hockey League has started the first round of playoffs. The County of Grande Prairie Wheat Kings kicked off their series against the Beaverlodge Blades with a 5-3 win Wednesday (Feb. 4) night. The Wheat Kings are 1-0 in the series heading into weekend play. Other series have the North ...

NWJHLThe Northwest Junior Hockey League playoffs started Wednesday night.The Wheat Kings won 5-3 in Beaverlodge. Game 2 will be played Saturday at the County Sportsplex.The Fairview-Fort St. John and Dawson Creek-Peace River series both start Friday. Sexsmith and La Crete starts Saturday.StormThe Storm won 3-2 in overt...

DOHA - It's off to the semifinals at the Qatar Open tennis tournament for Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko following yet another upset victory. The 19-year-old from Toronto earned a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 quarterfinal win Thursday over second-seeded Elena Ry...

HAMILTON - The Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed veteran receivers Kurleigh Gittens Jr. and Shemar Bridges on Thursday. Both players became CFL free agents Tuesday. Gittens Jr. spent the last two seasons with the Edmonton Elks while Bridges returns for a thir...

DUNEDIN - Jose Berrios has apologized to his Toronto Blue Jays teammates and the fans for his absence during last year's run to the World Series. Berrios spoke to media at the second day of the Blue Jays spring training camp. He was put on Toronto's in...

MILAN - The Canadian men's hockey team have opened the Milan Cortina Olympics with a 5-0 win over Czechia. Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring, Connor McDavid had three assists, and goaltender Jordan Binnington made 26 saves for the shutout. More com...

MILAN - Emily Clark scored twice for Canada in a 5-0 win over Finland in Olympic women's hockey Thursday. Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press

Canada's Eliot Grondin has won a silver medal in the men's snowboard cross at the Milan Cortina Olympics. The 24-year-old finished just behind Austria's Alessandro Haemmerle to claim his third Olympic medal. More to come. The Canadian Press

LONDON (AP) - Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said Thursday that he's sorry if some have been offended by anti-immigrant comments. The billionaire co-owner of Manchester United faced criticism by both political leaders and fans a...

LIVIGNO - Canadian freestyle ski star Mikael Kingsbury has won a silver medal in the men's moguls event at the Milan Cortina Olympics. The 33-year-old from Deux-Montagnes, Que. sailed to his fourth Olympic medal, just behind Australia's Cooper Woods. M...

MILAN - Canada has landed on the podium for its fifth and sixth medals - both silver - at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Day 6, both on the hills of Livigno and both in narrow misses for the gold. Snowboarder Eliot Grondin secured the latest medal for C...

Chris Bassitt is staying in the AL East. The Baltimore Orioles agreed to an $18.5 million, one-year contract with the right-hander Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the deal. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymi...

TORONTO - Jakob Poeltl's return didn't exactly go to plan. The Austrian big man played his first game Wednesday after missing 24 with nagging back pain against the Detroit Pistons, but his Toronto Raptors struggled in a 113-95 loss against the Eastern...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors will enter the all-star break on a sour note. Toronto hardly came close in a 113-95 loss to the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night at Scotiabank Arena in both teams' final contest ahead of the an...

There is one game in the Northwest Junior Hockey League playoffs Wednesday night.Dawson Creek travels to Peace River. The Navigators lead the best-of-five series 2-0.Last night, Fort St. John beat visiting Fairview 7-3 to take a 2-1 series lead. Game 4 Friday in Fairview.In the North Peace Hockey League last night, Fal...

BALTIMORE - Free-agent right-hander Chris Bassitt is joining the Baltimore Orioles on a one-year deal, leaving the Toronto Blue Jays after three seasons, according to multiple reports Wednesday. ESPN's Jeff Passan was first to report the agreement, whi...

MILAN - Canadian figure skaters Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have finished third in ice dancing at the Milan Cortina Olympics. More to come. The Canadian Press

TUMBLER RIDGE - RCMP say nine people were killed in shootings Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., including the lone suspect who died by suicide. Five of the victims were under 13 years old. Mounties also changed the death toll from 10, saying they origina...

The North Peace Hockey League's Grande Prairie Athletics are set to kickoff the first round of playoffs tonight (Thursday, Feb. 5) against the Falher Pirates. The A's will host the first matchup at the Design Works Centre. Puck drop is set for 8:30 p.m.The rest of the schedule is as follows:Game 2 - Feb. 10 - Falher Me...

Hockey Alberta and the Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame Committee announced Wednesday the class of 2026.The class will be inducted Saturday, July 18 at the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre in Red Deer, which is the new home of the Hall."Each year brings a new chance to honour the people who have shaped hockey in Albe...

NWJHLThe NWJHL playoffs start Wednesday night when the Wheat Kings travel to Beaverlodge.Face-off time will be 8 p.m.Game 2 will take place Saturday at the County Sportsplex.Two other series will start on Friday, with Fairview in Fort St. John and Dawson Creek in Peace River.Saturday, Fort St. John will be in Fairview ...

The Grande Prairie Storm climbed three spots in this week's Canadian Junior Hockey League top 20 power rankings.They jumped ahead three spots from last week, now sitting at 17th, as one of only two AJHL teams included in the list; the Whitecourt Wolverines sit at 9th, up from 14th the week prior.They now look to contin...

January 31 will mark Curling Day in Canada.Curling rinks across the country are hosting events.There are also a bunch of curling stories being shared on the Curling Day in Canada website.One of those is about a women's recreational team from Grande Prairie called the Road Trip Team.The team started going to bonspiels a...

The Grande Prairie Storm split their home series with the Camrose Kodiaks this past weekend.Friday night's match-up (Jan. 30) treated fans to some free hockey as overtime and then a shootout were required to crown a winner, as the Kodiaks took that game 4-3.The next night (Saturday, Jan. 31), the Storm came out with ve...