Prince Albert Raiders fans have rejoiced over the last 12 hours after their hometown team took out the reigning WHL Champion Medicine Hat Tigers with a 7-6 victory in Game 6 Sunday night. The team is also celebrating on the bus ride home, but still knowing there is work to do.The Raiders took the win in dramatic fashio...

Prince Albert's Ali Diehl continues to make big waves in the pool.At the World Para Swimming Championship Series in France (May 1-3), she won a gold medal and a bronze in two separate 100-metre breaststroke events.The gold was in the Female U18 category, while the bronze medal was in the Open Women category.Adding to t...

For the first time since 2019, the Prince Albert Raiders are Eastern Conference Champions.They punched their ticket to the WHL finals Sunday night with a 7-6 win in Game 6 against the Medicine Hat Tigers.Riley Boychuk scored two goals on the night including the game winner, while Aiden Oiring, Braeden Cootes, Daxon Rud...

The Prince Albert Sports Hall of Fame (PASHOF) gained eight members during its annual induction banquet on Saturday night.Family, friends, local dignitaries, and supporters packed into the Ches Leach Lounge at the Art Hauser Centre to watch the Class of 2026 be welcomed into the Hall, which included three athletes, two...

Youth hockey players in Prince Albert are feeling inspired by the Raiders and their success this season.The club is deep into their Western Hockey League (WHL) playoff run, currently sitting on a 3-2 series lead over the Medicine Hat Tigers after taking Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals 6-3 at the Art Hauser Cent...

With the series reduced to a best-of-three, it still felt like the Prince Albert Raiders had the momentum in their series with the Medicine Hat Tigers headed into Game 5. Even though the series was tied at 2-2, the Raiders had dominated through the last two games and were coming off a win as the series returned back to...

Changes are coming to the Canadian Football League (CFL), beginning next year with season starting at the earliest date in its history.The newly-announced changes include updates to the season schedule and changes to the league's playoff format.In 2027, the season will begin on Victoria Day Weekend, "anchoring the...

The Sandy Lake Chiefs were the last team standing at the 2026 Senators Cup over the weekend. The high-level Indigenous tournament, hosted by the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC), saw the Chiefs claim top spot in the championship's 10th annual instalment, where the team claimed the Senators Cup and the $30,000 grand p...

After the thrill of Game 1's dominant 8-3 win for the Prince Albert Raiders, hopes were high in HockeyTown North as the Raiders hosted the Medicine Hat Tigers for Game 2 on Saturday. The reality of the two best teams in the Eastern Conference set in however and the Tigers made their statement, tying the series up with ...

After a full week and a half of tension had built up in Prince Albert, Friday night the Prince Albert Raiders finally got their first crack at revenge against the Medicine Hat Tigers from last year's playoffs. This time it was the Raiders with home ice advantage in the series, and a full sellout crowd of 3,299 people p...

La Ronge Ice Wolves' defenceman, Ryder McKinnon, has been named the 2026 RBC Community Ambassador for the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.McKinnon, who had a $1,000 donation made in his name for being a finalist, now has an additional $2,500 to go to Pre-Cambrian School in La Ronge, courtesy of RBC. He works part-tim...

The WHL Commissioner will be in the building for Game 1 of the third round series between the Prince Albert Raiders and the Medicine Hat Tigers. Dan Near has been travelling to different rinks in the league during the playoffs, and he arrived in Prince Albert the morning before Game 1. Even with a heavy layer of snow ...

Youth soccer players eager to get back on the pitch for another soccer season will have to wait another week-and-a-half. The season was originally slated to kick off on May 1 in Prince Albert but with the recent dump of snow, the new opening day for the youth season has been pushed back to May 11, according to P.A. You...

A four-person panel made up of current and former professional hockey players, one being a Stanley Cup champion, helped kick off Senators Cup weekend in Prince Albert.Festivities for the 10th annual installment of the Indigenous tournament, hosted by the Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC), got underway on Thursday afte...

The current playoff run the Prince Albert Raiders are on has had a lot of similarities to previous playoff matchups the Raiders have been on. The first two opponents the Raiders have faced this year were the same two opponents the Raiders faced in the 2019 championship run, but after the second-round sweep of the Saska...

Completing a four game sweep on the road against the Yorkton Terriers, the Flin Flon Bombers have broken a curse that has lasted for 33 years. This was the fourth appearance in the SJHL Finals for the Bombers in the last five years, and finally they broke the streak with a 2-0 win on the road and their second Canterra ...

Prince Albert Raiders forward, 18-year-old forward Braeden Cootes, has been named the winner of the Brad Hornung Memorial Trophy as the WHL's Most Sportsmanlike Player. It's the first time in 59 years that a Prince Albert Raider has won the award that also bears the names of players like Seth Jarvis, Sam Reinhart, Mark...

A native of Air Ronge, Sask., has had quite the successful first season of post-secondary hockey.Former La Ronge Ice Wolves forward and current member of the Niagara University Purple Eagles, Jacob Cossette, has been named to the ACHA (American Collegiate Hockey Association) M1 All-Independent Rookie Team."The rec...

The opening date for Cooke Municipal Golf Course will not be anytime soon. Like many other courses in the area, the province's fourth oldest golf club is at the mercy of mother nature this season as a series of late season snowstorms have piled on the powder, pushing back their opening to later and later dates. Executi...

Awarded the prestigious title of grand champion, Prince Albert's Sean Kelly has proven age is just a number.The 58-year-old competed last weekend at an open martial arts tournament in White Fox and finished first in Kata (Open Hand Form), Point Sparring and Weapon Sparring. He also placed second in Weapons Form.Speakin...

The Eastern Conference Final starts in just a few short days for the Prince Albert Raiders, and the hype in the city is already palpable. With tickets going on sale at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, some fans were already lined up and waiting at the door as early as 7 a.m.Lonny Olson was one of the first people in line around 7:15...

Since 2013, fans of the Prince Albert Raiders have seen the #9 Modano banner hanging in the rafters of the Art Hauser Centre while they cheer on their favourite team. Coming to the city as a 16-year-old, Mike Modano would play three seasons with the Raiders between 1986-89, putting up 294 points in the span of 176 game...

While it ended in only four games, Prince Albert Raider fans got exactly what they wanted out of their second round sweeping defeat of the Saskatoon Blades. Now in the third round of the playoffs, the top four teams in the league during the regular season are all that remain. For the Eastern Conference Championship, th...

Up against the best division two volleyball teams in the province, the U14 Toppers Inferno squad lived up to their name, scorching the competition and finishing with a gold medal.Sask. Volleyball provincials were held over the weekend in Saskatoon and Warman for the U14 women, U15 men and U17 women divisions. Inferno c...

The Prince Albert Predators will head back to the MacDonald Cup later this summer to defend their Western Canadian Championship only this time, they won't have to travel anywhere.On Sunday, it was announced that the Jr. B lacrosse club was awarded hosting rights for the tournament, which will be played at the Art Hause...

The Willow Cree Chiefs will have to find a new league to play in for the next hockey season. The club, based in Beardy's & Okemasis' Cree Nation near Duck Lake, had their most recent application to re-enter the Twin Rivers Hockey League (TRHL) rejected this past week after their first bid was denied last spring. Ch...

It may not seem like it with the fresh snow that has hit the ground, but the spring football season is just around the corner. Prince Albert Minor Football has their registration for their spring programs open with their first practice scheduled for April 27. President of the Prince Albert Minor Football Association (P...

For the ninth time in WHL history, the Prince Albert Raiders had met their arch rival Saskatoon Blades in the second round. The Raiders only allowed one goal in the first three games to take a commanding 3-0 series lead, setting up an elimination Game 4 on Wednesday night.The Raiders came out of the gates early with so...

The targets on the Prince Albert Predators' backs couldn't be bigger as a new season kicks off in less than a month. The club is preparing to defend their Prairie Gold Lacrosse League (PGLL) championship for the fourth consecutive season, as well as their back-to-back Western Canadian MacDonald Cup championships. The P...

After earning a 2-0 series lead on home ice, the Prince Albert Raiders saw their second round series shift to Saskatoon on Tuesday for Game 3. For the second straight game, the Raiders shut the Blades out for a 4-0 win, and a 3-0 lead in the series.The Blades came out of the gates with some fire to try and show just ho...