PRINCE GEORGE - For three consecutive women's world championships, Switzerland has reigned as champions after defeating South Korea 7-6 at the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship in Prince George.Switzerland has now won seven of the last ten championships.Meanwhile, South Korea fought their way to the final as a co...

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Canada's Kerri Einarson claimed the bronze medal at the world women's curling championship on Sunday with an 8-7, extra-end win over Sweden's Anna Hasselborg. Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni and South Korea EunJung Kim were scheduled to play for gold later in the day. Einarson dropped a 9-6 decis...

.PRINCE GEORGE- Major sports teams have mascots to represent their teams as well as keep fans engaged in the game. Well did you know curling Canada also has a mascot who is one of the best in the business? This is Slider. You may have seen him roaming around the CN Centre entertaining fans, helping them cheer on Canada...

PRINCE GEORGE - Kerri Einarson's Team Canada secured their spot as one of the top six teams on Friday morning following their 8-5 victory over Germany at the World Women's Curling Championships.Einarson improved to 9-3 by the end of the day, defeating the Czech Republic in their final match of the round robin.With the ...

PRINCE GEORGE - Update: Japan will forfeit its final round-robin game against Korea this afternoon, due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns. The remaining players did test negative but have decided out of an abundance of caution and for the health and safety of other players, the team will not play against Korea.Korea will no...

PRINCE GEORGE - Canada's Kerri Einarson drew closer to a playoff berth in the women's world curling championship with a 9-3 win over the United States on Thursday.The host country improved to 7-2, however, they later suffered their third loss of the tournament in their evening match against Korea. The Canadians went to...

PRINCE GEORGE - Heather Rogers hails from Calgary.However, at the World Women's Curling Championships, she isn't wearing the maple leaf on any of her clothing. While she is wearing red and white, it's not for Canada. Instead, it's for Team Denmark.Ahead of the 2021 World Women's Curling Championships in the Calgary bub...

PRINCE GEORGE - It took a strong effort to hault the late momentum from Sweden as Canada's Kerri Einarson held them off to win 10-8 at the World Women's Curling Championships Wednesday morning.Einarson led 8-2 after five ends, but Sweden's Anna Hasselborg fought back to take the game to a 10th end.Canada (5-2) also pic...

PRINCE GEORGE - With the World Women's Curling Championships happening in Prince George, the city has welcomed visitors from far and wide.Walking the concourse of the CN Centre, whether Canada happens to be playing or not, you may find yourself having your eye caught by an interesting character.60-year-old Dee Hopley h...

PRINCE GEORGE - It appears Team Canada is getting a handle of the ice at the CN Centre, evening out their performance and creating some consistency.Canada's Kerri Einarson won her second game in a row at the World Women's Curling Championships with a 10-4 win over Japan on Tuesday.The victory pulled the host country ev...

PRINCE GEORGE - Every event that comes to a community, sporting or otherwise, that brings visitors has an impact on the economy of that community. Its acronym is called STEAM, an acronym for Sport Tourism Economic Assessment Model. And it involves a very complicated formula. "It's a huge formula that tries to enco...

PRINCE GEORGE - "We were literally set up and ready to go two years ago when the world changed. It's cool now that we're back. It's almost like we're bookending it," says Nolan Thiessen, Executive Director of Marketing and Fan Experience for Curling Canada. Finally back. And that is very good news for curling...

PRINCE GEORGE- Now you may not have tickets to see the Woman's World Curling Championship but that doesn't mean you can't take in the atmosphere. This weekend just beside all the curling action is the hangout place you'll want to be. "The Patch" a tradition since 1982.In 1982 when the Brier was held in Brando...

PRINCE GEORGE - Team Canada improved to a 3-2 record at the World Women's Curling Championships with an 8-4 victory over Denmark on Monday inside the CN Centre.Kerri Einarson's crew faces Japan (4-1) in its lone game scheduled for Tuesday.Denmark scored two in the fifth end to lead 3-2, but the Canadians countered with...

PRINCE GEORGE - The World Women's Curling Championships returned back to Prince George and, after two years of waiting, the first rock was thrown Saturday, March 19 as the opening draw got the entire tournament underway. Kerri Einarson had mastery of draw weight from the get-go and the skip kept filling the four-foot r...

PRINCE GEORGE-32 lucky girls got their chance to meet some olympic medalists all while trying out a sport ahead of the World Women's Curling Championship.Girls Rock! was presented today at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club. A training camp, hosted Curl BC and Women Curling Leaders Circle It's meant to not only te...

PRINCE GEORGE - "Well the objective of curling is to deliver the rocks down to the other end of the ice and score the most points by getting them into the house. The circles," explains Don McDermid, General Manager of the Prince George Golf and Curling Club. And there are two circles or houses. One at each en...

PRINCE GEORGE - Just two years ago, Kerri Einarson and the rest of Team Canada were holding a media availability at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club ahead of the 2020 World Women's Curling Championships.That tournament never happened with the rise of COVID-19 and the World Curling Federation pulling the plug jus...

PRINCE GEORGE - Two years later than they had hoped, Kerri Einarson and her Canadian championship team from Gimli, Man., will wear the Maple Leaf in Prince George, B.C.Einarson, vice-skip Val Sweeting, second Shannon Birchard, lead Briane Meilleur, alternate Krysten Karwacki, team coach Reid Carruthers and national coa...

PRINCE GEORGE - It was two years ago in March. The ice was ready and the teams from around the world were in the town, the international television crews were set to put Prince George in the spotlight. And then? Nothing. The Championships were cancelled due to COVID. But the event is back on the table and the news of 1...

PRINCE GEORGE - March 12, 2020. The ice was calibrated, teams were rolling into town from around the world and then? The World Women's Curling Championships were cancelled. It was the first major event to be cancelled because of COVID. But the events are coming back with a vengeance. Council recently approved some fina...

PRINCE GEORGE - In just three days, a champion will be crowned at the 2022 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay, Ont., and that team will instantly turn its thoughts to Prince George.The Scotties winner, of course, will be the home team at the 2022 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Women's Curling Championship, pre...

PRINCE GEORGE - There is a science to ice. No matter the sport, there is a difference in the ice. Curling is no different. "You try and get the ice somewhat flat with a series of misting and flooding. you build it up to a certain level and we actually paint it white. That's what gives it a nice, bright white appea...

PRINCE GEORGE - The CN Centre will be a vastly different place in two weeks."This will be a beehive of activity," says Glen Mikkelson, General Manager of the CN Centre. "Our ice makers will be busy making the curling ice. In fact, they're going to working 24 hours a day for about for or five days, gettin...

Despite giving up two points in the final two ends, Kerri Einarson's Manitoba rink prevailed at the 2020 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Moose Jaw Sunday night as they earned an 8-7 win over Rachel Homan's Ontario rink in the National final.Going into the 9th end Einarson's Manitoba rink led 7-3. However, two in the 9...

It's not every day Olympic medalists are in the City of Prince George, and Friday morning students at Harwin Elementary School were taught the basics of curling from Canadian Olympian Karri Wilms and Sochi Silver medalist Tom Brewster."It's really nice to be involved with things like this," stated Brewster.&q...

PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George is hosting the World Women's Curling Championship and it happens to fall in the same year that curling turns 100-years-old in Prince George. With that the Learn to Curl program is encouraging to get more youth involved in the sport, to continue to expand the game, hoping to make it another...

PRINCE GEORGE - There is a science behind every curling rock that has graced a sheet of ice. "They're referred to as a curling stone and they're actually made out of granite," explains Don McDermid, General Manager, Prince George Golf and Curling Club. "They have multiple pieces. The handle, the stone it...