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...

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...

Wanham's Quinn Pelland and her teammates with the Canadian women's team have opened Week 2 of Volleyball Nations League play with a 3-1 win over the Netherlands.Canada lost the first set 25-20 before winning the next three 25-19, 25-17, and 25-20. Week 2 is being played in Bangkok, Thailand. Canada will next play Bulga...

One Mighty Peace Football League player will be part of Team Alberta at the upcoming U17 Western Showcase. Dimitri Klassen is an offensive lineman with St. Joe's. The showcase will take place from July 3 to 10 in Vernon, with Alberta playing on July 7 and July 10. The showcase will include a team from each of the four...

FootballThe Peace Country Cowboys host the Cold Lake Fighter Jets Saturday in their Alberta Football League home opener.Kick-off time will be 7:15 p.m. at CKC Field.Admission cost is $5 per person or $10 for a family. Minor football players get in free.The Cowboys are 0-1 after opening the season with a 52-7 loss on th...

Professional chuckwagon racing has resumed following washout conditions earlier this week in Bonnyville, where the final race day was postponed and eventually cancelled. The World Professional Chuckwagon Association's third stop of the 2026 season kicked off last night (Thursday, June 11) at the Medicine Hat Exhibition...

The new development team for Biathlon Canada includes an athlete from Grande Prairie. Liam Tinworth is one of 11 competitors named to the squad. The Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection says on its social media page that Tinworth got his start at the Wapiti Nordic Centre and now trains in Canmore. He first competed...

Logan Gorst has been crowned the Bonnyville Chuckwagon Champion following washout conditions at the track on what was to be Championship Monday in Bonnyville.As a result, the championship was awarded based on the best three-day aggregate time rather than being decided in the Championship Final Heat.Gorst, driving the F...

Basketball was invented by a Canadian, and we may soon have ownership over the sport again, following the first-ever FIBA U18 Men's AmericaCup title for the Great White North.After a historic showing in the tournament, Canada capped it off with a 67-65 win over the USA last night.Grande Prairie's own Deng Ngor secured ...

It will be Logan Gorst, Chanse Vigen, Darcy Flad, and Rae Croteau Jr. In the championship final at the World Professional Chuckwagon Association stop in Bonnyville.The final is being run Monday evening because heavy rain forced the postponement of Friday's races.Croteau Jr. had the fastest time of the day on Sunday, fo...

The World Professional Chuckwagon Association is running again in Bonnyville after Friday's races were postponed.Jamie Laboucane, Chad Fike, Logan Gorst, and Jason Glass had the four fastest times during Saturday's races. Chanse Vigen was ninth, Mitch Sutherland 15th.Logan Gorst leads the aggregate, followed by Vigen, ...

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...