Local Sports

If getting there is half the battle, consider Team Ontario's work in the Canada Winter Games men's hockey tournament 50 per cent complete.

As an energy-producing province, Alberta's oil is the driving force.

With the Canada Winter Games winding down, the Prince George Spruce Kings return to the comforts of home for games tonight and tomorrow night at the Coliseum, their final two games of the regular season.

Team Nunavut has come farther than any other team to the Canada Winter Games in Prince George.

Ontario and Nova Scotia finished at the top of their respective pools in Canada Winter Games women's curling. As their reward, they get byes into tonight's semifinals, set for 7 at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club.

Olivia Boys-Eddy and Mackenzie Boys-Eddy of Ontario edged a team from Quebec to win gold in pairs novice figure skating at Lakewood Dental Arena on Thursday. The Boys-Eddy siblings were awarded 72.

Raphael Couturier pulled an abrupt 180 and skied backwards across the finish line, seven seconds ahead of the second-place finisher at Otway Nordic Centre on Thursday.

Badminton 9 a.m. Mixed team competition - quarterfinals 5 p.m. Mixed team competition - relegation, semi finals Northern Sport Centre Women's curling 12 p.m. Crossover, quarterfinals 7 p.m.

Squash has always been a unfriendly spectator sport. Most squash courts are in club facilities and have solid white walls on three sides and a glass enclosure at one end, which includes the doorway entrance.

Kevin Gauthier had an encounter with a polar bear Thursday in Prince George, and lived to tell the tale.