The Northwestern Polytechnic Wolves women's hockey team will make its regular season debut at home on Thanksgiving weekend. The Wolves will host NAIT October 9 and 10 at the Design Works Centre. Some home exhibition games will be played in September. The Wolves will host Lloydminster AAA for two games on September 19 a...

Two players from the Peace have been named to Football Alberta's U16 Female team. Running back Tylene Lewis of Sexsmith and defensive lineman Gabrielle Shaw of Valleyview will both play at the U16 Western Showcase. It is set for July 13 to 19 in Calgary. Alberta's games are set for July 15 and 18. Lewis and Shaw both p...

Baseball ProvincialsThe U16 Baseball Alberta Girls League Provincials will be held Friday through Sunday at Evergreen Park.The host Reds will play Grande Cache in the tournament's opening game at 9 a.m. Friday.Games continue at noon and 3 p.m. with the Reds playing the Rocky Sun Devils at 6 p.m.On Saturday, games start...

Alberta's U16 boys and U18 girls football teams will both have some local representation. Grande Prairie's Reid Hebert is part of the U16 boys Team Alberta that will play in the 2026 Football Canada Western Challenge in Winnipeg. It will go from June 30 to July 5. Hebert is a defensive lineman and plays high school fo...

Canada's women's volleyball team finished 3-1 in Week 2 of Volleyball Nations League play in Bangkok, Thailand. Canada beat Poland 3-2 on Sunday. The only loss came to the host side, 3-1 on Saturday. "After yesterday, I saw a team that entered in the court hungry and they wanted to win so much! This is the victory...

There are some games in the Wheatbelt Baseball League tonight (Monday, June 22).Rycroft will visit Sexsmith.Game time is 7:15. Grimshaw will be in Manning for a doubleheader that starts at 6:30 p.m.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Erling Haaland scored the deciding goal in the 86th minute and Norway won a knockout game at the World Cup for the first time, advancing to the round of 16 with a 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast on Tuesday. Three defe...

LONDON (AP) - Serena Williams is back on Wimbledon's Centre Court for her first singles match in nearly four years. The 44-year-old Williams was given a standing ovation Tuesday as she walked onto the grass court where she won seven of he...

NHL free agency opens Wednesday for the annual Canada Day sprint. This year's crop is thin on elite talent - especially when it comes to younger players - but there are still plenty of options as general managers look to build or round out rosters. The...

Donning the Maple Leaf was a conscious decision for many of the athletes representing Canada at this summer's FIFA World Cup. Like much of the country, the team is composed of people whose families came from abroad, and many of the players had offers f...

SURREY - The Metro Vancouver city of Surrey has announced it is going ahead with the development of a 10,000-seat arena that will become the new home of the Western Hockey League's Vancouver Giants when it's complete. The city and the Surrey City Devel...

TORONTO - Toronto Tempo guard Marina Mabrey has been named the WNBA's Eastern Conference player of the week. Mabrey tied the WNBA single-game scoring record with 53 points Thursday in a victory over the Los Angeles Sparks. She also matched the league...

LONDON - Canada's Gabriel Diallo advanced at Wimbledon with a walkover in his first-round match Tuesday against France's Benjamin Bonzi. Bonzi was trailing 1-6, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 3-1 when Bonzi took a medical timeout before withdrawing from the match....

LeBron James will not be back with the Los Angeles Lakers and plans to play a record-extending 24th NBA season elsewhere. His decision is perhaps the biggest domino that will fall during the NBA's offseason player movement window, alongsi...

The Latest from the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada 3:00 p.m. Erling Haaland scored his fifth goal at the 2026 World Cup, and so far his biggest, to send Norway into the Round of 16 with a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast. The Manchester City star calmly slotted...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia judge has confirmed a trial will start in February for two minor hockey players accused of sexually assaulting teammates during a hazing ritual last fall. Neither of the accused appeared Monday in provincial youth court in Truro...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people. The court's six-justice conservative majority, which ha...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people. The court's conservative majority, which has repeatedly...

The Northwestern Polytechnic Wolves women's hockey team will make its regular season debut at home on Thanksgiving weekend. The Wolves will host NAIT October 9 and 10 at the Design Works Centre. Some home exhibition games will be played in September. The Wolves will host Lloydminster AAA for two games on September 19 a...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canada to face Morocco in Round of 16 at World Cup Canada will face Morocco in the Round of 16 at the World Cup after the North African giants defeated the Netherl...

VANCOUVER - It was almost 28 degrees in Vancouver last Wednesday, but Alex Garcia was still determined to wear two soccer jerseys at the city's FIFA Fan Festival. On the outside was the green one of his native Mexico - but on the inside, Canadian red. ...

VANCOUVER - Ticket prices for Thursday's round-of-32 World Cup game in Vancouver have plummeted since it became clear Canada wouldn't be playing there - but it's a whole different ball game in Toronto. Fans there will get to see two highly rated teams,...

Heavy rainfall in Wainwright led to the finale of the Wainwright Stampede's Championship Sunday to be cancelled. This is the second time in three weeks professional chuckwagon racing has seen the championship being awarded to the driver with the best three-day aggregate time rather than through a Championship Final Hea...

The Peace Country Female Athletic Club has been given some league honours. It has been named the first recipient of the Program of the Year Award by the Alberta Female Hockey League. The organization says in a social media post that this is "a testament to the dedication of our players, coaches, volunteers, famili...

The conditions were right on Friday night at the Wainwright Stampede for Grande Prairie native Chanse Vigen to break a longstanding track record and win the day money.The second night of professional chuckwagon racing saw Vigen cross the finish line with a time of 1:01.98 from barrel two in the 12th heat, beating the 4...

Cranberry Lake RodeoThe 44th annual Cranberry Lake Rodeo is set for Friday through Sunday at the grounds near DeBolt.Events start with the ranch rodeo at 5 p.m. Friday, followed by the All-Pro chuckwagons at 8 p.m.The schedule for Saturday and Sunday starts with the local rodeo starting at 11 a.m., with the wild horse ...

The Piranhas Summer Sizzler Swim Meet will be held Friday and Saturday at the Eastlink Centre.City Hall says the aquatics area is still open to the public, but there are some things that won't be available.On Friday, the dive tank and towers will not be available from 2-9:30 p.m.The FlowRider is off limits from 2-9 p.m...

Bezanson has put up another sign that pays tribute to someone who grew up there and went on to do big things. A post on the Discover Bezanson social media page, says that a sign honouring the late Daren Zenner has gone up along the same road where the sign that salutes rodeo cowboy Dusty LaValley is also located. Zenne...