PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George's martial arts scene continues to show their strength, as three Judo clubs will be sending a combined 23 local athletes to the 2026 Judo Open National Championships. Hosted from May 14-17 in Calgary, AB, this National tournament is considered the most prestigious judo tournament in the cou...

PRINCE GEORGE - Two bowlers from Prince George have returned home after representing British Columbia at the national level. Kyra Thurston and Jacinda Trenholm took part in the national five-pin bowling championship in Winnipeg, MB earlier this month and brought back a result they can be proud of. The Nechako Bowling s...

PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Cougars have selected forward William Thompson with the 41st overall pick in this year's WHL Prospects Draft.Thomspon hails from North Vancouver and captained the North Shore Warriors U15 Prep Team last season where he compiled 50 points in 30 games. In three playoff games, he had seve...

NANAIMO - The Nanaimo Clippers beat the Prince George Spruce Kings 6-2 Wednesday night to sweep the third round BCHL series 4-0.Tai Ushio and Lucas Busch scored for the Spruce Kings who trailed 2-1 after the first period and 3-2 after the second period. Nanaimo pulled away in the third period with three more goals, inc...

TORONTO - Craig Berube is out of a job with the Maple Leafs. Toronto fired its head coach this morning after two seasons in charge. The move comes on the heels of the Original Six franchise missing the playoffs for the first time in a decade and foll...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens, to a man, were rather pleased with their overall performance for most of Tuesday's playoff game against the Buffalo Sabres at the Bell Centre. Nevertheless, when the final horn sounded, it was the Sabres emerging with...

MONTREAL - Stephane Vallieres remembers going to the old Montreal Forum at age 12 to watch the Canadiens play the Quebec Nordiques like it was yesterday. On Tuesday night, he was among about two dozen people in the cafeteria of the Old Brewery Mission ...

MONTREAL (AP) - Zach Benson broke a tie on a third-period power play on his 21st birthday and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Tuesday night in Game 4 to even the Eastern Conference semifinal series. Benson took a pass in the slot ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Pavel Dorofeyev scored his second goal of the game at 4:10 of overtime to give Vegas a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night, moving the Golden Knights a victory away from advancing to the Western Conference final. Game 6...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays had 49 comeback wins in 2025, the most in all of Major League Baseball. This year, they've been coming up short. Toronto erased a five-run deficit in the seventh inning but still fell to the Tampa Bay Rays 7-6 in 10 inni...

LAVAL - Marie-Philip Poulin is no stranger to big games, big moments or big goals. Her power-play goal 3:06 into the third period held up to be another game-winner for Captain Clutch as the Montreal Victoire edged the Minnesota Frost 2-1 in the fifth a...

TORONTO - Taylor Walls hit a single up the first-base line to score Cedric Mullins as the Tampa Bay Rays salvaged a 7-6 10-inning win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday. Jonathan Aranda added another run in the 10th when his sacrifice fly to deep ce...

LAVAL - The Montreal Victoire are heading to their first Walter Cup final as they defeated the two-time defending champion Minnesota Frost 2-1 at Place Bell on Tuesday in the fifth and deciding game of their Professional Women's Hockey League semifinal...

CALGARY - Alyssa Mitchell has invested in a majority stake of the Northern Super League's Calgary Wild. Mitchell is an American-based entrepreneur with family roots in Winnipeg, the women's soccer club said Tuesday in a release. She acquired a 41 per...

PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George's martial arts scene continues to show their strength, as three Judo clubs will be sending a combined 23 local athletes to the 2026 Judo Open National Championships. Hosted from May 14-17 in Calgary, AB, this National tournament is considered the most prestigious judo tournament in the cou...

VANCOUVER - Members of British Columbia's nurses union have voted overwhelmingly to strike, with union president Adriane Gear raising the prospect of a dispute while "the whole world is watching us" during the FIFA World Cup that begins next month. Al...

VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier David Eby says hosting seven FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver will have a remarkable economic impact on the province, although his government won't release the cost of staging the matches until at least the end of the month. E...

PRINCE GEORGE - Two bowlers from Prince George have returned home after representing British Columbia at the national level. Kyra Thurston and Jacinda Trenholm took part in the national five-pin bowling championship in Winnipeg, MB earlier this month and brought back a result they can be proud of. The Nechako Bowling s...

TORONTO - Meghan Agosta has entered the Professional Women's Hockey League draft six years after she last played for Canada internationally. The 39-year-old forward from Ruthven, Ont., represented Canada in four Olympic Games and won gold three times. ...

TORONTO - Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello said there was nervousness, and some excitement. But with Game 1 out of the way, it's time to settle in. The league's first team outside of the United States has turned the page on its historic WNBA de...

A Trudeau will be taking the floor in Ottawa on Tuesday, but not for politics. Xav Trudeau, the R&B artist and son of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will perform at the home opener for the Ottawa Blackjacks. The BlackJacks will kick off thei...

Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby will play for Canada at the world hockey championship in Switzerland More coming. The Canadian Press

MEMPHIS - Vancouver-born NBA player Brandon Clarke has died at age 29, the Memphis Grizzlies confirmed Tuesday. The Grizzlies did not provide a cause of death for the forward in their announcement on X. Clarke was drafted 21st overall in 2019 and playe...

TORONTO - The CFL will keep its 20-second play clock this season after all. CFL games will adopt a 35-second play clock in 2026 but return to a 20-second clock for the final three minutes of each half. It's a move the league's board of governors appro...

MADRID (AP) - Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez has called for new elections at Real Madrid and says he will seek another term after claiming he is the victim of a campaign to unseat him. He dismissed rumors that he was tired of the ...

NEW YORK - Bill Guerin of the Minnesota Wild, Chris MacFarland of the Colorado Avalanche and Pat Verbeek of the Anaheim Ducks are the finalists for the 2025-26 Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award, the NHL announced Tuesday. Guerin acquired Qu...

MONTREAL - The Buffalo Sabres are making a change in the crease after back-to-back lopsided losses in their second-round playoff series against the Montreal Canadiens. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen re-took his spot in the starter's net at morning skate Tuesday ...

Cycling Canada has applied the brakes to its elite women's track pursuit team. Cycling Canada will not enter a women's pursuit team at track cycling's world championship in October, even though Canada has qualified for the event, nor will it pursue qua...