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...

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...

The guy they call Lightning Luke had the fastest time on Night 1 of WPCA chuckwagon racing at the Teepee Creek Stampede.Luke Tournier had a time of 56.13 seconds to take first on the night. He was followed by Cody Ridsdale, who finished 1.65 seconds back D.J. DeSutter and Dale Young round out the top four.Wagon racing ...

It was a hot Thursday night down in Calgary with perfect track conditions for the seventh running of the 2026 Rangeland Derby. Jamie Laboucane held onto his top spot in the aggregate standings.Laboucane was the day money winner after posting the fastest run with a time of 1:10.18. Following in second was Jason Glass, t...

Grande Prairie's Oliver Dawson is coming home from the Canadian Swimming Trials in Montreal with three gold medals. Dawson won the 100 metre breaststroke Thursday at the trials after earlier winning the 50 and 200 metre breaststroke events. Also at the trials, Marley Monson finished sixth in Thursday's final of the wom...

Fastball Provincials Pirates Minor Fastball is hosting the U13D and U15D girls provincials Friday through Sunday at South Bear. Two Pirates teams are taking part in the U13 D side, along with teams from Manning and Grimshaw. Games start at 9 a.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Playoffs start at 9:15 a.m. Sunday, with...

Two-time Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby champion Jason Glass is on a hot streak after winning back-to-back nights of chuckwagon racing in "cowtown."Day 6 of the Rangeland Derby saw perfect track conditions and a packed crowd at Calgary's Stampede Park.Glass captured the fastest time of the night with a time...

The 108th edition of the Teepee Creek Stampede kicks off Thursday, July 9!TP Stampede Association President Tanner Sorken says he is looking forward to a great weekend. Sorken says the schedule looks to be the same compared to years before, but the new skyboxes are now complete. "We weren't able to finish them las...

The racetrack was in pristine condition Tuesday (July 7) night at the Calgary Stampede grounds and a scorching 25 degrees at the Rangeland Derby's fifth running of the World Professional Chuckwagon Association. At the end of the night, it was Jason Glass, a two-time Rangeland Derby champion, who crossed the finish line...

Night 4 of the 2026 Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby was under mostly sunny skies and a warm 22°C, and once again, track conditions were very fast.At the end of the evening, it was Jamie Laboucane driving the Panorama Advisory Group outfit that captured his second Kirk's Trail Tire Wheels on Fire Fast Time of the N...

One cowgirl originally from Grande Prairie and three wagon drivers with connections to the Peace will be competing at the Calgary Stampede. Jennifer Neudorf is among the invitees in the barrel racing. She is in Pool B, which will start on Monday and run through Wednesday. Neudorf won the barrel racing title at Stompede...

Registration for Grande Prairie's annual triathlon closes Sunday, July 5 This is the second year it will operate under the Grande Prairie Triathlon name, as it continues to offer an inclusive race for athletes of all ages from 3 years old to 99 and over. The triathlon is happening July 12; athletes must have a Triathlo...

A soon-to-be 67-year-old from Grande Prairie is setting provincial records in powerlifting for his age and weight classes. Raimo Paananen had a 125-kilogram squat lift, an 85-kilogram bench press and a 160-kilogram dead lift at the Alberta Powerlifting Championships, June 12 to 14, in Calgary. Paananen competes in the ...

A Peace Country rodeo tradition more than 100 years old is scheduled to resume on Canada Day. The Rio Grande Rodeo will run through Friday. The Open Rodeo is set for Wednesday and Thursday at 1 p.m., with the slack at 9 a.m. The Little Britches Rodeo starts at noon on Friday. The flat races go Wednesday and Thursday at...

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.

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...