The Grande Prairie Storm will have a familiar dance partner in the AJHL North Final. A 5-1 victory for the Whitecourt Wolverines led them to put the Fort McMurray Oil Barons away in five games. Now, the Storm will take on Whitecourt again for a chance to punch their ticket to the AJHL final; last season the two teams m...

Sport Excellence AwardsThe Sport Excellence Awards will be given out on Friday.The awards are being given out in 14 categories.The Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection says there are 45 nominees in those 14 categories.The awards cover accomplishments from 2025 in the area from Fox Creek and Slave Lake to the B.C. a...

Grande Prairie Storm forward Zachary Wilson was honoured as the 2025/2026 AJHL Most Dedicated Player and was presented with the Don McNabb Memorial Trophy.This honour is voted on by coaches and general managers from across the league and given to the player most dedicated to his team, with Wilson being a finalist last ...

Round 1 of playoffs belongs to the Grande Prairie Storm after beating the Lloydminster Bobcats in just four games. Wednesday's Game 4 saw the Storm score two power play goals and an empty netter to complete the sweep of the Bobcats with a final score of 5-3. Storm goalie Leland Gill was the Visiting Team Star of the Ga...

The Grande Prairie Storm now have a 3-0 lead in their playoff series with the Lloydminster Bobcats.The Storm won 6-3 Tuesday night (Mar.24) in Lloydminster.Connor Frost had two goals for Grande Prairie. Zachary Wilson scored a goal and had two assists. Colin Doherty had three helpers.The announced attendance was 1,274....

Peace Wapiti Public School Division is praising its students for their participation in the 2026 Arctic Winter Games.Sixteen PWPSD students competed in several different events for Team Alberta North while in Whitehorse, YT, from March 8-15.They were joined by Whispering Ridge Community School teacher Evan Senger as co...

TORONTO - Infielder Leo Jimenez is headed for Miami after the Toronto Blue Jays completed a deal on Sunday to acquire infielder Dub Gleed and international signing bonus pool space. The 24-year-old Jimenez played 18 games with the Jays last season, and...

PHOENIX - PHOENIX (AP) - Hyo Joo Kim beat Nelly Korda for the second straight week, pulling away around the turn Sunday and closing with a 3-under 69 for a two-shot victory in the Ford Championship. Kim was poised to break the LPGA Tour's scoring recor...

NEW YORK (AP) - Adam Sykora broke a scoreless tie early in the third period, Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves, and the New York Rangers defeated the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Sunday. Sykora, a rookie who was a second-round pick in 2022, scored his second go...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors made history in the first and second quarters of their 139-87 Sunday rout of the Orlando Magic and they didn't really know or care about it as it happened. Orlando led by as many as seven points but then the Raptors reeled...

SEATTLE (AP) - Sarah Wozniewicz gave Ottawa the lead, rookie Peyton Hemp scored her first goal, and Gwyneth Philips posted her first shutout of the season as the Charge blanked Seattle 2-0 on Sunday despite the return of Torrent's captain Hilary Knight...

TORONTO - Scottie Barnes had his 28th double-double of the season as the Toronto Raptors routed the Orlando Magic 139-87 on Sunday. Barnes had 23 points and a career-high 15 assists as Toronto (42-32) earned a crucial win in the Eastern Conference stan...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Nick Suzuki scored two goals and had an assist to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday. Suzuki fueled a three-goal second period for the Canadiens, who have won five straight...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bruce Cassidy is out as coach of the Vegas Golden Knights, who fired him Sunday in an abrupt late-season change and replaced him with John Tortorella. General manager Kelly McCrimmon announced the move a day after the team lost three i...

HOUSTON (AP) - Gary Woodland won the Houston Open on Sunday, an emotional moment that seemed so improbable 30 months ago when he had brain surgery, and even two weeks ago when he opened up about his frightening struggles with post-traumatic stress diso...

OGDEN, UTAH - It was another tough outing for Canada's Matt Dunstone at the world men's curling championship. Dunstone's team suffered a 9-3 setback to John Shuster of the United States in seven ends Sunday. After opening the competition with two conse...

TORONTO - Toronto manager John Schneider gave Jesus Sanchez a shot at the No. 2 spot in the batting order for his first start as a Blue Jay on Sunday afternoon. The recently acquired outfielder took advantage of the opportunity with a two-run homer to...

TORONTO - Troy Ryan made sure to make note of a thought he had mid-game Sunday. The cause? Forty-five seconds after captain Blayre Turnbull scored the Toronto Sceptres' first power-play goal in over two months to even the score, the team surrendered th...

TORONTO - George Springer, Jesus Sanchez and Kazuma Okamoto hit homers and Eric Lauer had nine strikeouts as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Athletics 5-2 on Sunday to complete a three-game series sweep. Springer turned on the first pitch Luis M...

TORONTO - Izzy Daniel had a goal and an assist as the Vancouver Goldeneyes snapped a two-game skid with a 3-2 win over the Toronto Sceptres on Sunday in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Hannah Miller and Mannon McMahon also scored for Vancouver ...

TORONTO - Toronto Sceptres forward Clara Van Wieren was suspended for one game by the Professional Women's Hockey League on Sunday following an incident Friday night versus the Boston Fleet. Boston won the game 4-0 but late in the third period Van Wier...

GÄLLIVARE - Another World Cup ski cross silver medal and overall championship for Canadian Reece Howden. Howden, of Chilliwack, B.C., finished just behind Italian Simone Deromedis in a photo finish Sunday. Edoardo Zorzi, also of Italy, was third. It ma...

A Grande Prairie athlete is in the top six in her sport across Canada.Indy Dorscheid finished sixth at the Women's Skeleton Canadian Championships held March 22 in Whistler, B.C.Dorscheid took part in her first-ever competition in late November.One-time world champion Hallie Clarke won the Canadian title. Jane Channell...

A Fairview team won a provincial hockey title on home ice over the weekend. The Falcons captured the U18 Female B title with a 3-0 win over Battle River in the gold medal game played Sunday, Mar. 22 at the Fairview FairPlex. Toni-Anne Welles made 22 saves for the shutout. Kylie Friesen, Kamryn Bissell and Meta Gardecki...

The Manning Comets are the champions of the North Peace Hockey League.The Comets completed a four game sweep of the Campbell Cup final with a 5-0 home ice win Saturday over the Dawson Creek Canucks.Braden Gamble recorded the shutout. Judd Blackwater, Edge Lambert, Josh Peters, Brendan Baumgartner, and Kye Whillans had ...

The Grande Prairie Storm grabbed a 3-2 win over visiting Lloydminster in Game 1 of their Alberta Junior Hockey League playoff series.A goal from Zachary Wilson at 13:18 of the first overtime period clinched the victory.The Bobcats led the game 2-1 until Max Leduc tied the contest with a goal at 18:53 of the third perio...

StormThe Storm host Lloydminster Friday to start the AJHL playoffs. More on the Storm can be found here.NPHLManning has a chance to win the North Peace Hockey League title on home ice Saturday night.The Comets won 6-2 Thursday night in Dawson Creek to take a 3-0 series lead.Game time Saturday will be 8:30 p.m.Provincia...

The Northwestern Polytechnic Wolves athletes may not have made podium finishes at the ACAC 2026 Indoor Track Championships, but they did come home with some bragging rights. The Wolves Women's 4x200m relay team, made of Alana Paziuk, Kelly Koop, Carly Frerichs, and Raelle Amboe set a new school record of 1:56.77 on Sat...