The Jr. B Peace Country Honey Badgers wrapped up their inaugural season, finishing 3rd in their division.For their first season in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League, the team says they blew all expectations out of the water, having their season come to an end in a tightly contested semi-final series.The club thanked a...

Around 350 athletes from nearly two dozen communities around the Peace are representing Zone 8 at the Alberta Summer Games. Strathcona County is the host community this year. The games got going with the opening ceremony Thursday night (July 16). Zone 8 has a gold and a bronze medal so far, both coming in athletics. Th...

Fairview Amateur Rodeo The Fairview Amateur Rodeo goes this weekend at the Waterhole Rodeo Grounds. On Friday, local team roping starts at 6 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, local barrel racing starts at 10 a.m., with the WRA rodeo starting at 1 p.m. The full schedule can be found here. Manning RodeoThe 74th Manning Rodeo...

The Northwestern Polytechnic Wolves women's hockey team continues to add to its coaching staff. The team has announced that Tanya Chomyc has been hired as the team's skating and player development coach. Chomyc won a USports women's hockey title as a player with the University of Calgary. She has also served as directo...

The Town of Magrath is looking at expanding its recycling program to include curbside pick-up starting October 1.The new service will be managed by Circular Materials, a non-profit producer responsible for the transition to an EPR model - EPR standing for Extended Producer Responsibility.The Town says residents can exp...

A five-person contingent from the Peace will be competing at the upcoming National High School Finals Rodeo. It will start on Sunday, July 19, and run through Saturday, July 25, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Pacen Hemingson will compete in bareback, Sawyer Lacey in breakaway roping and pole bending, Virgil Paley in saddle bro...

WINNIPEG - Now that Cole Perfetti has secured his long-term financial future by signing his first big-ticket contract, the Winnipeg Jets forward understands the real work is just beginning. The 24-year-old spoke publicly Monday for the first time since...

BERLIN (AP) - The Women's Tennis Association is introducing one-off mandatory gene-testing for all players effective from Tuesday - a requirement to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The WTA updated its women's eligibility policy to include gen...

CHICAGO (AP) - Connor Bedard never wavered. Whenever the young center was asked about his future, he always responded with similar variations of the same message. All the way to his $75 million, five-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. "I've sai...

MADRID (AP) - Spain's World Cup-winning soccer team returned home on Monday and an estimated crowd of almost two million was on hand to greet the squad through the streets of Madrid. The 26 players and their coaching staff met with the country's royals...

ZURICH - Canada remained No. 30 in the latest FIFA men's world rankings released Monday, while World Cup champion Spain climbed back to No. 1 after its title victory. Spain moved up one place to replace Argentina, which slipped to second after Sunday's...

Customers paid a lot more for travel services last month, particularly in Toronto and Vancouver - the country's host cities for the World Cup - Statistics Canada said Monday. The cost of traveller accommodation in June rose 10 per cent overall, and abo...

CALGARY - Hockey Canada has announced its coaching staff for the 2027 world junior hockey championship, with Drew Bannister, Brad Lauer, Jim Hulton and Ryan Getzlaf joining head coach Misha Donskov's staff as assistants. Canada's hockey governing body ...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police have described how controlling the air around World Cup sites during the tournament became a key part of their mission, with officers using drones to manage crowds while dozens of civilian drones were "jammed" and brought d...

REGINA - Saskatchewan Roughrider player Jayden Dalke was driving on the wrong side of a divided highway - with alcohol and cannabis in his SUV - when the vehicle slammed into another, killing himself and a second driver, Mounties said Monday. They al...

EDMONTON - Brooke Henderson draws a direct line between her recent success on the golf course to her happiness off of it. Top-three finishes in her last two majors - including a monster final round at the Evian Championship put her in a playoff - has c...

Kevin Keegan, the two-time Ballon d'Or-winning soccer star who captained and coached England and won the European Cup with Liverpool, has died. He was 75. His death was announced Monday by former club Newcastle, where he had been both a p...

The Jr. B Peace Country Honey Badgers wrapped up their inaugural season, finishing 3rd in their division.For their first season in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League, the team says they blew all expectations out of the water, having their season come to an end in a tightly contested semi-final series.The club thanked a...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens have hired Derek Lalonde as an associate coach, the team announced Monday. The 53-year-old spent last season as an assistant with the Toronto Maple Leafs after serving as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings from 2022-2...

OTTAWA - Dru Brown couldn't contain his big smile as he walked off the field at TD Place Sunday night. The 29-year-old quarterback engineered an impressive fourth quarter comeback before leading the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (4-2) to a 36-34 overtime victo...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Kylian Mbappé is now the owner of World Cup Golden Boots. Spain then won all the individual player awards Sunday, denying Lionel Messi not only a second World Cup title but also more personal hardware. ...

TORONTO - Luster proved Sunday she deserves consideration to run with the boys in the $1-million King's Plate. Jockey John Velazquez moved Luster from second into the lead just after the half-mile mark of the $750,000 Woodbine Oaks. From there, the 3-5...

It was quite a weekend for Grande Prairie steer rider Ryder Topolinski. After winning the junior steer riding at the Calgary Stampede on Saturday, Topolinski had a score of 71 at Sunday's steer riding go round at the Teepee Creek Stampede to take first place. He also competed at the Bowden Daze Rodeo Friday night, winn...

The Wheatbelt Baseball League playoffs start tonight (Monday, July 13) with Game 1 of the North Division semi-final.Grimshaw in Manning will start at 7:15.Game 2 will be played on Wednesday.Tomorrow (Tuesday, July 14), Sexsmith will be in Rycroft in Game 1 of the South Division semi-final.Game time will be 7:15 p.m.Gam...

A veteran coach from Grande Prairie is joining the new Northwestern Polytechnic Wolves women's hockey team. A social media post from the Wolves says Kelly McLeod has been hired as an assistant coach. The post says McLeod has over 15 years of coaching experience, a lot of that in women's hockey. He also put in a dozen y...

In an exhilarating and historic finale at the 2026 Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby, chuckwagon driver Jamie Laboucane driving the Panorama Advisory Group outfit, along with outriders Hayden Motowylo and Kale Lajeunesse, captured the Championship in the final heat on Sunday, defeating two-time champion Jason Glass by a...

The Championship Finals of the Teepee Creek Stampede were contested under cloudy skies, warm 21°C temperatures, and very good track conditions on Sunday evening. When the dust settled, Luke Tournier driving the Dynamic Energy Group Inc. outfit, along with outriders Mitch Weber and Britt Irvine, captured the Teepee ...

Grande Prairie's Ryder Topolinski has won the junior steer riding crown at the Calgary Stampede.Topolinski had an 83 on Saturday to take first place in the final four. Gunner Armstrong of Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, was second with an 82.50Topolinski topped the aggregate with a combined score of 239 and won $5000.Also on...