Category Archives: Local Sports

Tickets available for Saturday's Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame induction gala in Red Deer
Tickets are still available for the 2025 Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame gala and induction ceremony, which goes down this Saturday, July 19 at the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre.The Hall will honour ...
Jul 17, 2025

Red Deer athletes win 51 medals at Special Olympics Alberta Summer Games
Red Deer athletes returned from the 2025 Special Olympics Alberta Summer Games with some hardware.Held from July 11-13 in Grande Prairie, a total of 71 athletes, coaches and support personnel took par...
Jul 16, 2025

Hockey scouts with ties to Red Deer to be added to Wall of Honour in Okotoks
The Western Canada Professional Hockey Scouts Foundation will add 29 names to its Wall of Honour at the second annual Induction Dinner.On July 29 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Viking Rentals Centre in Okot...
Jul 12, 2025

Bob Rutz named head coach of U18 AAA Red Deer Optimist Chiefs
The U18 AAA Red Deer Optimist Chiefs will have a new head coach behind the bench starting this fall.Bob Rutz, who has over 20 years of coaching experience, will take over the reigns from former head c...
Jul 07, 2025

112th Women's Amateur Golf Championship concludes in Leduc
The 112th Alberta Women's Amateur Golf Championship wrapped up in Leduc on Friday with a pair of local athletes featured in the tournament.Calgary's Carys Code claimed the title after shooting eight-o...
Jul 07, 2025

RDP Queens basketball names Dante Dinter as new head coach
The Red Deer Polytechnic Queens basketball team has a new head coach. Dante Dinter has been hired on ahead of the 2025-26 Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) season. Most recently, he served a...
Jul 04, 2025

Calgary Stampede chuckwagon announcer celebrating 40 years in the booth
Forty years ago, Les McIntyre entered the announcing booth for the first time at a small rodeo in Trochu, Alberta, and never looked back.The longtime chuckwagon announcer at the Calgary Stampede is ce...
Jul 03, 2025

2025 Ponoka Stampede Champions
Benchmark Commodities Ltd. Outfit
It's the heat everyone has been anxiously waiting for - the $75,000.00 Tommy Dorchester Championship final heat at the Ponoka Stampede - where Chanse Vigen, Evan Salmond, Jamie Laboucane and Logan Gor...
Jul 02, 2025

Red Deer Rebels select two players in CHL Import Draft
The Red Deer Rebels have selected a forward and a defenceman in the 2025 Canadian Hockey League (CHL) Import Draft to add to the team's depth. On Wednesday morning, the Rebels selected Czechia forward...
Jul 02, 2025

Cross-Canada run for mental health to make pit-stop in Lacombe
A former B.C. law enforcement officer currently running across Canada for mental health dollars and awareness will be in Lacombe this coming weekend.The 'Sach-In Motion' run is taking the Ontario-born...
Jul 01, 2025