The Teepee Creek Stampede Association says the World Professional Chuckwagon Association will be back for the 2026 edition of 4 Days in the Wild.The WPCA wagons that were not part of the Calgary Stampede last year raced at Teepee Creek.The WPCA schedule says they will be in Teepee Creek from Jul. 10-12 this year, which...

Hockey Canada announced Tuesday it is expanding the group of those involved in its ongoing learning and development program, entitled 'The Shift Forward: Evolving Hockey Culture.'The program was piloted for the 2025-26 season with five members, including Atlantic Canada's four provincial hockey bodies, and Hockey North...

The Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection's Sport Excellence Awards were given out Friday night at Evergreen Park.An email from the organization says that the following are the 2026 Recipients:Female Athlete of the Year - Ferris Sandboe, strongmanMale Athlete of the Year - Oliver Dawson, swimmingOutstanding Official...

Wanham's Quinn Pelland and her team in the Spanish women's volleyball league pulled off an upset to open the playoffs.Pelland's CV Harris side, the eighth-place finisher in the regular season, beat the first-place side, Ciutadella, 2-0 in their best-of-three opening round playoff series.CV Harris won the second match 3...

The North Division Final of the Alberta Junior Hockey League's Inter Pipeline Cup AJHL Playoffs is set to get underway this Easter weekend in Whitecourt. The Grande Prairie Storm will hit the road for Game 1 at JDA Place on Friday, Apr. 3. Game 2 will be played on Saturday, also in Whitecourt. The series comes to Bonne...

The Grande Prairie Storm will have a familiar dance partner in the AJHL North Final. A 5-1 victory for the Whitecourt Wolverines led them to put the Fort McMurray Oil Barons away in five games. Now, the Storm will take on Whitecourt again for a chance to punch their ticket to the AJHL final; last season the two teams m...

CALGARY - Maggie Connors had a goal and an assist for the Toronto Sceptres in a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Charge in a PWHL Takeover Tour game Wednesday in Calgary. Claire Dalton scored her first career goal for the Sceptres and captain Blayre Turnbull ha...

DENVER (AP) - Marcus Pettersson scored with 5:39 remaining, Brock Boeser had a hat trick and the last-place Vancouver Canucks blew a four-goal lead before beating the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche 8-6 on Wednesday night. The Canucks, who entered the g...

TORONTO - Precious Achiuwa had 28 points and 19 rebounds as the Sacramento Kings ended a four-game losing streak with a 123-115 win over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday. DeMar DeRozan added 28 points for Sacramento (20-57), which came into the game ti...

DENVER (AP) - Colorado's Nathan MacKinnon became the first NHL player this season to reach 50 goals when his liner from up top beat Vancouver goaltender Kevin Lankinen early in the first period on Wednesday night. He celebrated the goal with a little e...

LAVAL - Hayley Scamurra scored twice and Ann-Renée Desbiens made 18 saves as the Montreal Victoire blanked the Vancouver Goldeneyes 3-0 on Wednesday night to clinch a playoff berth in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Desbiens, last season's goal...

Tiger Woods formally turned down the Ryder Cup captaincy Wednesday as he steps away from golf activities, and a Florida judge approved his motion to leave the country to seek treatment. The developments come one day after Woods entered a not guilty ple...

TORONTO - The Toronto Tempo have acquired the 26th pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft from the Chicago Sky. The Tempo will not pick from Chicago's unprotected list at Friday's expansion draft in return. Toronto also holds the sixth, 22nd and 36th picks at the...

TORONTO - If you look up "unbothered" in the dictionary, there's likely a photo of Kevin Gausman. Gausman turned in another gem for the Blue Jays but earned a second consecutive no decision to start the season as Toronto fell to the Colorado Rockies 2-...

TORONTO - Pierre-Luc Dubois was still trying to figure out NHL life. Helmet firmly fastened under his chin, the Columbus Blue Jackets rookie stepped on the ice for warm-ups ahead of his eighth professional hockey game in October 2017. The Los Angel...

HILTON HEAD - Canada's Leylah Fernandez cruised into the third round of the Charleston Open tennis tournament with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Uzbekistan's Polina Kudermetova on Wednesday. Fernandez, seeded ninth at the WTA 500 hardcourt event, converted four ...

HAMILTON - The L.A. Summer Games offer twins Tyson and Jalen Philpot a chance to return to their football roots. Flag football will make its Olympic debut in 2028, with Canada chasing a spot in the inaugural event. The receivers from Delta, B.C., are e...

The Teepee Creek Stampede Association says the World Professional Chuckwagon Association will be back for the 2026 edition of 4 Days in the Wild.The WPCA wagons that were not part of the Calgary Stampede last year raced at Teepee Creek.The WPCA schedule says they will be in Teepee Creek from Jul. 10-12 this year, which...

TORONTO - Pinch-hitter Tyler Freeman's RBI single in the 10th inning helped the Colorado Rockies complete a 2-1 comeback win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday afternoon. Troy Johnston had an RBI single in the eighth inning to tie the game 1-1 for...

Hockey Canada announced Tuesday it is expanding the group of those involved in its ongoing learning and development program, entitled 'The Shift Forward: Evolving Hockey Culture.'The program was piloted for the 2025-26 season with five members, including Atlantic Canada's four provincial hockey bodies, and Hockey North...

NEW YORK - Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov, Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Erik Karlsson and Boston Bruins centre Pavel Zacha have been named the NHL's three stars of March. Kucherov led the league with 26 points (nine goals, 17 assists)...

The Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection's Sport Excellence Awards were given out Friday night at Evergreen Park.An email from the organization says that the following are the 2026 Recipients:Female Athlete of the Year - Ferris Sandboe, strongmanMale Athlete of the Year - Oliver Dawson, swimmingOutstanding Official...

Sport Excellence AwardsThe Sport Excellence Awards will be given out on Friday.The awards are being given out in 14 categories.The Grande Prairie Regional Sport Connection says there are 45 nominees in those 14 categories.The awards cover accomplishments from 2025 in the area from Fox Creek and Slave Lake to the B.C. a...

Grande Prairie Storm forward Zachary Wilson was honoured as the 2025/2026 AJHL Most Dedicated Player and was presented with the Don McNabb Memorial Trophy.This honour is voted on by coaches and general managers from across the league and given to the player most dedicated to his team, with Wilson being a finalist last ...

Round 1 of playoffs belongs to the Grande Prairie Storm after beating the Lloydminster Bobcats in just four games. Wednesday's Game 4 saw the Storm score two power play goals and an empty netter to complete the sweep of the Bobcats with a final score of 5-3. Storm goalie Leland Gill was the Visiting Team Star of the Ga...

The Grande Prairie Storm now have a 3-0 lead in their playoff series with the Lloydminster Bobcats.The Storm won 6-3 Tuesday night (Mar.24) in Lloydminster.Connor Frost had two goals for Grande Prairie. Zachary Wilson scored a goal and had two assists. Colin Doherty had three helpers.The announced attendance was 1,274....

Peace Wapiti Public School Division is praising its students for their participation in the 2026 Arctic Winter Games.Sixteen PWPSD students competed in several different events for Team Alberta North while in Whitehorse, YT, from March 8-15.They were joined by Whispering Ridge Community School teacher Evan Senger as co...

A Grande Prairie athlete is in the top six in her sport across Canada.Indy Dorscheid finished sixth at the Women's Skeleton Canadian Championships held March 22 in Whistler, B.C.Dorscheid took part in her first-ever competition in late November.One-time world champion Hallie Clarke won the Canadian title. Jane Channell...