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The Wheatbelt Baseball League has their schedule out for the 2026 season. New for this season is teams being split into two divisions. The North Division will have the Peace River Stampeders, Grimshaw Huskies and Manning Mets.

There’s a new women’s hockey team coming to the region as Northwestern Polytechnic will have a collegiate team starting this fall. Dr. Vanessa Sheane, the President and CEO of the school, says the starting of this team

They’ve been out of the league since 2014, but now the Slave Lake Wolves have returned to the NWJHL. Team President Alex Pavcek says they’ve already got some strong support from several former players who are involved

The NWJHL is looking at possibly having an expansion team in Slave Lake. League officials have had some meetings with interested parties in the community on that topic and have told us that they believe that they

The Western Hockey League begins their post-season this week and there could be a few players from the Peace and Mackenzie regions who make a name for themselves. We’re going to look at some of the local

After coming up short in the finals last season, this season saw the Manning Comets manage to win the North Peace Hockey League championship. Assistant Coach Greg Pasichnuk says they were able to get some big contributions

After their second NWJHL championship in three seasons, the La Crete Lumber Barons are getting ready for another appearance at the Alberta Junior B Provincials. Dion Knelsen, the head coach of the Barons, says they will leaning

The Mighty Peace Basketball League is coming back for another season this spring. League president Nic Gagnon says they’ve already received a strong response from players interested in playing this season. “We actually have two new teams

The finals matchup is set in the North Peace Hockey League and it pits the top two teams in the regular season against each other with the Dawson Creek Canucks facing the Manning Comets. Both teams have

We’ve got our finals matchup set in the NWJHL, and it’s one the feels very familiar. For the third straight season, it’s the La Crete Lumber Barons facing the Fort St. John Huskies for the league championship.

The North Peace Hockey League continuing their post-season, as they’re now into the semi-final round. All of the higher seeded teams were winners in the first round. Dawson Creek beat Fort St. John in five games, Manning

We’re into the second round of the NWJHL’s playoffs. Four teams remain in the battle for the league championship. Three of the four first round matchups ended up in sweeps, La Crete over Sexsmith, Grande Prairie over

The North Peace Hockey League is beginning their playoffs this week. Eight teams have advanced to the postseason and will be looking to get the Campbell Cup for the league championship. The regular season ended with the

The NWJHL regular season is done, now it’s time for the playoffs. All eight teams will be competing for the championship with the winner representing the league at the Junior B Provincials happening in April in Lloydminster.

The NWJHL is coming up on the end of their regular season and they have announced the nominees for their league awards. Every team in the league has one player up for each of the awards, MVP,