Storm The Storm closed out the regular season with a pair of wins at home over the weekend. They beat Drayton Valley 4-1 Friday and 8-1 Saturday. The announced attendance was 1777 on Friday and 1979 on Saturday. The Storm will open the playoffs at home against Lloydminster this coming weekend. Game 1 will start Friday ...

The La Crete Lumber Barons are this years NWJHL Champions after completing a sweep of the Fort St. John Huskies.The Lumber Barons captured the win Saturday night (March 14) with a score of 6-2 in the fourth game of the final series.With the win, the team finished playoffs with a 11-1 record and became NWJHL Champs for ...

StormThe Storm host Drayton Valley Friday at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday at 6:00 p.m. to close out the regular season.More on the Storm can be found here.NWJHLThe Northwest Junior Hockey League final continues this weekend. La Crete will be in Fort St. John Friday, Saturday and Sunday.The Lumber Barons lead the series 2-0.G...

The Grande Prairie Storm led all Alberta Junior A teams in attendance this season, their third season in a row leading the AJHL. With still two home games left in the regular season, the Storm's total attendance sits at 36,376, with an average of 1,455 fans; that is 2,765 more than Lloydminster, which came in second in...

NPHLDawson Creek has advanced to the North Peace Hockey League final.The Canucks beat visiting Spirit River 5-2 Tuesday night to take the series in seven games. It was the first time the home team won a game in the series.Dawson Creek will be home to Manning Saturday in Game 1 of the Campbell Cup final. Face-off at 8:3...

A post on the Team Skrlik social media page says, "our team has decided to go our separate ways." The post says the decision was made "after a lot of reflection." The Skrlik foursome won the Alberta women's title in 2023 and 2025, and also played in this year's Scotties as one of the pre-qualified ...

WINNIPEG - Provincial amateur sports organizations in Manitoba may soon be required to track demographics and show efforts to make their sport more inclusive. A bill now before the legislature would require bodies that govern sports to obtain demograph...

PHOENIX (AP) - Bringing the heat in spring training is supposed to be about hard-throwing pitchers, not triple-digit temperatures like those that will impact Major League Baseball spring training games in Arizona for several days this week. Because of ...

VANCOUVER - Canadian Football Hall of Famer Tom Brown, a three-time CFL all-star who won a Grey Cup with the B.C. Lions in 1964, has died, the team said Monday. He was 89. A two-time winner of the CFL's top lineman award, Brown played in 97 regular-sea...

GOLDEN, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A British Columbia helicopter-ski company says that a snowboarder has died in the Kootenay region after falling in to a tree well. Great Canadian Heli-Skiing, based in Golden, B.C., says in a statement the person was...

Storm The Storm closed out the regular season with a pair of wins at home over the weekend. They beat Drayton Valley 4-1 Friday and 8-1 Saturday. The announced attendance was 1777 on Friday and 1979 on Saturday. The Storm will open the playoffs at home against Lloydminster this coming weekend. Game 1 will start Friday ...

JUPITER - George Springer hit a leadoff home run as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Miami Marlins 5-4 on Monday in a six-inning Grapefruit League game at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium. Springer also scored on a wild pitch in the third inning before Dault...

EDMONTON - A hockey-loving town in southern Alberta that lost its only two ice rinks in a Zamboni explosion says it will cost millions to rebuild. Derrin Thibault, Taber's chief administrative officer, says council recently agreed to spend about $6 mil...

Jeff Gustafson returned to his office Monday. The Kenora, Ont., angler was back in his Lund 2075 Pro-V bass boat on Alabama's Lake Guntersville for some fun fishing in not-so-fun conditions - 3 C temperatures with wind, cloud and wet snow. However, it ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Both the WNBA and players' union feel progress is being made toward a new collective bargaining agreement, but they both say there's still work to be done to get a deal to the finish line. The talks come ahead of the 2026 season, which ...

TORONTO - When a young soccer player asked Jonathan Osorio if Canada was going to win the men's World Cup, his answer was direct. "Yes," said Osorio during a question-and-answer period Monday at a children's soccer camp in Toronto's Downsview Park. The...

CALGARY - Kerri Einarson's curling team passed a tough test in the women's world championship to maintain an unbeaten record Monday. Einarson's foursome out of Manitoba's Gimli Curling Club was a 9-6 winner over Denmark's Madeleine Dupont, who was a to...

Brendan Bottcher is returning to the skip position with a new-look rink that will be based in Alberta. He will team up with third Jacob Horgan, second Tanner Horgan and lead Geoff Walker on a squad that boasts a mix of youth and championship pedigree. ...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is among several communities in Canada awarded funding through the 2026 Kraft Hockeyville program just weeks after a mass shooting attack in the town where eight people were killed and dozens more hurt. Thirteen pr...

The La Crete Lumber Barons are this years NWJHL Champions after completing a sweep of the Fort St. John Huskies.The Lumber Barons captured the win Saturday night (March 14) with a score of 6-2 in the fourth game of the final series.With the win, the team finished playoffs with a 11-1 record and became NWJHL Champs for ...

NEW YORK - New York Rangers forward Alexis Lafrenière was named NHL first star of the week on Monday. He led all NHL players with seven points (five goals, two assists) last week. Lafrenière had two game-winning goals to help the Rangers win all four ...

EDMONTON - The World Cup of Hockey will be held in Canada and Czechia in 2028. Edmonton's Rogers Place, Calgary's under-construction Scotia Place and the O2 Arena in Prague will host the best-on-best competition, the NHL and NHLPA said in statements Mo...

The Kurt Balderston and Glenys Bakker rinks won the Masters men's and women's provincial championships Sunday, Mar. 8 at the Grande Prairie Curling Centre.Bakker defeated Cathy Borys 10-2 in the women's final.Balderston's Grande Prairie rink beat the Mickey Pendergast team from both Calgary and Red Deer 7-6 to take the...

StormIt is the final week of the regular season for the Storm.They are in Devon Monday, Mar. 9 and Tuesday, Mar. 10,.Both games start at 7 p.m.The Storm then host Drayton Valley Friday, Mar. 13 and Saturday, Mar. 14 to close out the regular season.NPHLThe North Peace Hockey League semi-final between Spirit River and Da...

The All-Star teams have been named at the Brier, and a couple of guys with connections to the Peace are on the First Team.The group includes Team Alberta skip Kevin Koe and Team Gushue lead Geoff Walker.Koe is a former resident of Grande Prairie. Walker is from Beaverlodge.The First Team also includes Team Manitoba-Dun...

The Storm lost their second game of the week to the Wolverines Friday night, dropping a 4-2 decision in Whitecourt.Treysen Miller and Will Harris had the Storm goals.Whitecourt won 2-0 in Grande Prairie Tuesday night.The second-place Storm now trail the first-place Wolverines by seven points in the North Division stand...

The Arctic Winter Games will begin on Sunday, Mar. 9, in Whitehorse, Yukon, and run through the end of the week. The games, held every two years, were last hosted by Alaska in 2024, and saw Team Alberta North take third overall with 122 total podium finishes. The team says they now want to take that momentum into 2026....

StormThe Storm are in Whitecourt Friday night. Face-off time is set for 7 p.m.The Wolverines won 2-0 in Grande Prairie Tuesday night and are five points up on the second-place Storm in the North Division.Grande Prairie has a game in hand.NPHLSpirit River won 4-3 in Dawson Creek Thursday night to take a 3-2 lead in thei...