Besides the Summer Luau Beach Volleyball Tournament Saturday and Sunday at the newly expanded South Bear courts, there is a long list of local sports events this weekend: Football The Peace Country Cowboys open the Alberta Football League season Saturday on the road against the Calgary Gators. This will be a rematch of...

The number of beach volleyball courts at a Grande Prairie facility has doubled.A recent expansion at the beach volleyball facility at South Bear added four new courts. Grande Prairie Beach Volleyball league volunteer Patrick Bueckert says the city contributed $200,000 a year ago; which is half of the cost. The league h...

UPDATE: The WPCA says heavy rain has forced Friday night's races to be postponed.The racing is scheduled to continue Saturday evening, Sunday afternoon, and Monday evening.After a successful season opener at the Grande Prairie Stompede, the World Professional Chuckwagon Association resumed Thursday for the first evenin...

Grovedale's Carter Kettyle has earned a roster spot with the Edmonton Elks. He is one of four Canadian receivers on the Elks roster. Kettyle played high school football with St. Joe's and is one of two former Celtics picked by the Elks in this year's CFL draft. The other one, offensive lineman Matthew Ljuden, was rele...

The Alberta Junior Hockey League held its AGM and Board of Governors meetings in recent days. Following the gatherings, several new initiatives were announced for the 2026/27 season.Regular season formatPer the league: The AJHL will maintain its structure of two divisions for the 2026-27 season - the Bunge AJHL North D...

Lawn BowlingCity Hall will host drop-in lawn bowling Tuesday at Muskoseepi Park as part of Seniors Week. It will go from 1-3 p.m. Registration is not required.People are advised to dress for the weather.For more information, email programming@cityofgp.comPresentation with Renee SonnenbergThe Grande Prairie Regional Spo...

The unofficial results from Stompede posted to Rodeo Canada's website show that two Peace Country competitors won their events. Jennifer Neudorf and her horse Roxette stopped the clock in 15.79 seconds in the barrel racing during the rodeo slack on Wednesday. Neudorf is originally from Grande Prairie but now lives near...

Obrey Motowylo and his sons, Ethan and Hayden, are the 2026 Grande Prairie Stompede champions to start the professional chuckwagon racing season. In the $40,000 Championship Final Heat, Motowylo ran a penalty-free time of 1:15.27 to capture the GP crown for the second straight year. He crossed the finish line 95 one-hu...

A local lacrosse team in its first year of existence is on a roll. The Junior B Peace Country Honey Badgers are 7-1 so far in their inaugural season and have won six straight games. They are in second place in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League standings behind only 7-0 Red Deer. The team includes 20 players from in an...

A local lacrosse team in its first year of existence is on a roll. The Junior B Peace Country Honey Badgers are 7-1 so far in their inaugural season and have won six straight games. They are in second place in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League standings behind only 7-0 Red Deer. The team includes 20 players from in an...

It was a cloudy Saturday evening for the fourth night of professional chuckwagon racing at the 2026 Grande Prairie Stompede. At the end of the night, it was Jason Glass that secured the day money with a penalty-free run of 1:15.63. His time was 14 one-hundredths of a second quicker than Layne Flad, who finished second ...

The third evening of the World Professional Chuckwagons at the Grande Prairie Stompede had the reigning world champion, Chanse Vigen, cross the finish line the fastest for the second night in a row in front of his hometown crowd. The track was a little heavier than the previous two days after some Friday (May 29) after...

Harmon Valley RodeoThe Harmon Valley Ag. Society will host the Wildrose Rodeo Association at the Harmon Valley Rodeo Saturday and Sunday at the Harmon Valley Fairgrounds.The rodeo will start at 1 p.m. on Saturday and noon on Sunday.Rodeo slack at 7 p.m. on Saturday.Wheatbelt Baseball LeagueIn the Wheatbelt Baseball Lea...

Hometown chuckwagon driver Chanse Vigen posted the fastest time of the night at the Grande Prairie Stompede. It was 30 degrees Thursday (May 28) night out at Evergreen Park and excellent track conditions to boot. Vigen claimed top spot of the evening after a penalty free run of 1:14.68 in the tenth and final heat. Vige...

The professional chuckwagon season officially got underway Wednesday (May 27) night with the running of the Grande Prairie Stompede Championship. Obrey Motowylo entered this year's edition as the defending Grande Prairie Stompede Champion, while former Grande Prairie resident Chanse Vigen began defense of the World Chu...

Stompede will mark the start of the chuckwagon racing season this year, as has been the tradition for many years. Obrey Motowylo won the WPCA championship last year at Stompede. Local product Chanse Vigen has won the World Chuckwagon Championship for three straight years. A father and son from Grande Prairie will be r...

The final auction of the 2026 World Professional Chuckwagon Association season was held in Grande Prairie Tuesday (May 26) evening for the Teepee Creek Stampede.Fifteen drivers and three Wildcard Wagons had their tarps up for bid for the second consecutive WPCA canvas auction for the event.The overall total brought in ...

It is Day 1 of Stompede. The rodeo slack will start at noon today (Wednesday, May 27) at Evergreen Park. Main performances on Thursday through Sunday will start at 12:50 p.m. each day. Two cowboys from the Peace lead their event in the Canadian Pro Rodeo Association standings heading into Stompede. Auzyn Corr of Grande...

The WPCA tarp auction for the Teepee Creek Stampede will be held tonight (Tuesday, May 26) at the Jackpot Grill & Bar. Doors open at 5 p.m., supper at 6 p.m., and the auction at 7 p.m. Bidders can register through the Teepee Creek Stampede website.The Teepee Creek Stampede Association announced in April that the WP...

Oliver Dawson's two super final silver medals at the AP Race London International swim meet in London are not the only hardware brought home by Grande Prairie swimmers. Marley Monson won a pair of gold medals. Monson won the 100 metre breaststroke B final in a time of 1:09.86, a time that would have been good for ninth...

Grande Prairie's Oliver Dawson continues to break his own and other Canadian records in the pool after competing overseas in the AP Race London International 2026. The 18-year-old is steadily climbing the world rankings, as he broke two longstanding Canadian records at the meet and will bring home two silver medals.The...

A basketball player originally from Grande Prairie has been invited to try out for a national team.Deng Ngor is among the 18 players invited to a tryout camp for Canada's U18 Men's National Team.The final 12 selected will represent our country at the FIBA U18 AmeriCup June 1-7 in Leon, Mexico.Eight trams will take par...

The Peace Country Female Athletic Club will be transitioning away from the Storm logo and colourway next season.As part of a new partnership with Northwestern Polytechnic, the PCFAC will now don the Wolves' logo, along with their pink and navy colour scheme.According to the Club's director Tanya Chomyc this move "...

Hythe Motor SpeedwayThe season will open at the Hythe Motor Speedway on Saturday with the Wescar 100 Special Event.Qualifying starts at 2 p.m. Racing will start at 3 p.m.Tickets are available through the Speedway's website. Show & ShineThe 12th annual Webster Community Hall Show & Shine is set for Saturday.Car ...

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...