The 2026 Wheatbelt Baseball League season will start tonight (Wednesday, May 20). The County Brewers will host the Grimshaw Huskies. The first pitch will be at 7:15 p.m. at the County Sportsplex. The Brewers say on social media that this will be the 87th season for the Wheatbelt Baseball League.Future GamesThe Sexsmit...

The only graduate of the Grande Prairie Thrashers lacrosse organization to make a provincial team is getting ready to represent Alberta on the national stage again.Sixteen-year-old Coehn Bolin will be playing box lacrosse at nationals this year in Halifax after playing at field lacrosse nationals last year, also in Hal...

The rodeo team at Northern Lights College has collected a bunch of accolades. The team captured the Canadian College Rodeo Association Varsity Team Championship at the Canadian College Finals Rodeo held in early May in Rimbey. Three competitors also won individual titles. That includes Ben Coombes in bareback, Landon ...

The inaugural season for Northwestern Polytechnic's Women's Hockey team will be played at Grande Prairie's Design Works Centre.The unveiling of the Wolves logo on the Weyerhaeuser Arena's ice marked a new opportunity for women student athletes in northern Alberta.The Wolves will be the seventh team in the Alberta Colle...

Final starts Friday The Western Hockey League final starts tonight (Friday, May 8) in Everett, Washington. The Silvertips will host the Prince Albert Raiders. Zachary Shantz from Sucker Creek is with Everett. He has 10 points, including four goals, in 13 playoff games after recording 65 points in 66 regular-season game...

Softball tryouts for the Zone 8 team for the Alberta Summer Games are set for Saturday, May 9.They will start at 11 a.m. at the Parkside Diamonds. Players must pre-register. More information and registration are available through the Softball Alberta website and social media pages.

KELOWNA - Kelowna Rockets owner Bruce Hamilton isn't thinking about legacy. He is still trying to live in the moment, with the Rockets hosting the Memorial Cup for the first time since winning on home ice in 2004. That tournament produced some of his f...

PARIS (AP) - Jannik Sinner won't have the crowd on his side when he starts his quest for a career Grand Slam at the French Open this weekend. Sinner was on Thursday drawn a French opponent in the first round - Clement Tabur, ranked a career-high 165th....

MONTREAL - Formula One's travelling circus has arrived in Montreal - a little earlier than usual. Rather than its traditional mid-June slot, the Canadian Grand Prix is set for this weekend on Île Notre-Dame. And for the first time, the race overlaps wi...

RALEIGH - The Montreal Canadiens are on the road once again, this time for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final. Montreal will take on the Carolina Hurricanes tonight, looking to make their first Stanley Cup final appearance since 2021. The Canadien...

Weeks before global soccer fans are due to descend on Toronto and Vancouver for the World Cup, some Uber drivers were trying to score better working conditions during the tournament. At a routine meeting, they told the ride-hailing giant they're worrie...

NEW YORK (AP) - Trey Yesavage outpitched Cam Schlittler in a marquee matchup between young aces, and the Toronto Blue Jays edged the New York Yankees 2-1 on Wednesday night. Following a rain delay that lasted more than two hours, the right-handers trad...

Wednesday's Scoreboard NHL Playoffs Western Conference Final | Best-of-Seven Series Vegas 4 Colorado 2 (Vegas leads series 1-0) --- PWHL Playoffs Walter Cup Final | Best-of-Five Series Montreal 4 Ottawa 0 (Montreal wins series 3-1) --- World Men's Hock...

OTTAWA - By all accounts, Carla MacLeod didn't need to be behind the Ottawa Charge bench this season. No one would have blamed the head coach for wanting to step away after sharing she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in late November, but MacLeod...

DENVER (AP) - Dylan Coghlan scored his first playoff goal to get Vegas rolling, Carter Hart made 36 saves and the Golden Knights opened the Western Conference Final by holding off the Colorado Avalanche 4-2 on Wednesday night. Trailing 3-0 in the third...

OTTAWA - Just over a year ago, Marie-Philip Poulin stood in Ottawa searching for answers after her Montreal Victoire fell short in the playoffs. On Wednesday night, the Victoire captain finally got her moment of redemption. Poulin and her Victoire te...

CALGARY - The University of Alberta swept the U Sports awards with volleyball player Abby Guezen named female athlete of the year and sprinter Ryder Rattee male athlete of the year Wednesday. It's just the second time a single university claimed both h...

Toronto Raptors forward Collin Murray-Boyles has been named to the NBA's all-rookie second team. Murray-Boyles is the 13th player in franchise history to receive all-rookie honours and first since Scottie Barnes in 2021-22. The 20-year-old averaged 8.5...

NEW YORK (AP) - José Berríos underwent a full Tommy John surgery on his right elbow Wednesday, sidelining the veteran Toronto Blue Jays starter well into the 2027 season. The Blue Jays hoped Berríos - who missed Toronto's World Series run last fall wit...

NEW YORK - Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios will miss the rest of the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. The procedure was performed Wednesday, a team spokesman said. Elbow ligament replacement surgery typically requires at least a ...

The 2026 Wheatbelt Baseball League season will start tonight (Wednesday, May 20). The County Brewers will host the Grimshaw Huskies. The first pitch will be at 7:15 p.m. at the County Sportsplex. The Brewers say on social media that this will be the 87th season for the Wheatbelt Baseball League.Future GamesThe Sexsmit...

Former CFL player Arland Bruce III was awarded $25,000 in damages by an arbitrator earlier this month after suffering a concussion in a 2012 game. The amount is significantly lower than the $310,000 Bruce had been seeking. In a May 6 decision, arbitrat...

An important fundraiser is taking place today (Friday, May 8) at the Community Knowledge Campus. The 3D Children's Charity is hosting its ball hockey and soccer tournaments. Students from all the local school districts compete to help raise money for other kids facing a serious medical challenge. The last scheduled ga...

Another canvas auction for a stop along the World Professional Chuckwagon Association's 2026 season has raised a historic dollar figure for the chuckwagon drivers competing in the Ponoka Stampede. The auction was held May 1 for the Stampede's 90th Anniversary edition. It brought in $904,500 for 32 drivers and four wild...

Two football players originally from this area, who played on the same university team, are continuing their careers after getting picked in the 2026 Canadian Football League Draft. The Edmonton Elks selected the University of Alberta's Carter Kettlye in the third round, 21st overall.The 6'1" wide receiver from Gr...

Another team is to be added into the Strike Group North West Junior Hockey League next season. The Junior B hockey league is welcoming the return of the Slave Lake Wolves, after the team dissolved from the NWJHL in 2014.At their annual general meeting held on April 27, a motion was passed by NWJHL board members to acce...

A member of the Grande Prairie Wrestling Club won two silver medals at the 2026 Canadian Wrestling Championships held over the weekend at the Design Works Centre. Jaren Alaimoana took second in the men's U19 110-kilogram category in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Teammate Hayden Cooke had fourth and sixth-p...

Two girls from the Peace Region have the right to call themselves national champions. Both Taylor Wasylchew and Kasey McLeod of Grande Prairie, were a part of the U18 Red Deer Chiefs' 4-3 overtime win yesterday(Saturday, April 25) in Dieppe, New Brunswick, where they took down the Ontario representative, the Stoney Cre...