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After swimming 2.4 miles in the rushing waters of the Tennessee River in a downstream current that made her goggles leak, Angela Duncan-Naeth was glad to reach dry land again.

The Cariboo Cougars may have suffered only their third loss of the season to end the first half of the B.C. Hockey Major Midget Hockey League schedule in Richmond on the weekend, but they hope to rebound on Boxing Day.

Alyssa Connell and her Prince George Golf and Curling Club teammates can rightfully call themselves road warriors.

The UNBC men's basketball team hasn't played a game in nearly a month, but its about to warm up for the second half of the season in sunny Arizona. The Timberwolves are competing in the Arizona Christian University New Year's Classic from Dec. 29-31.

If you ask Taylor Beck, her new $300 hockey stick was worth every penny.

After being told they weren't good enough to play hockey for Team B.C. in February at the 2015 Canada Winter Games, three players from the first-place Northland Dodge Northern Cougars were asked to practice with the team over the weekend in Richmond.

The Prince George Spruce Kings came away with a point in a 5-4 double overtime loss to the Coquitlam Express Saturday night.

The streak has come to an end. The Cariboo Cougars ran the table for 13 straight wins in the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League but that stretch of good fortune came to an end Sunday morning in Delta.

Arthur Roots was just 16 when he competed in his first Canada Winter Games as a biathlete nearly four years ago in Halifax. He made it into the top-12 as an individual that year and won a relay bronze medal.

Prince George biathlete Megan Heinicke was perfect on the shooting range en route to a 14th-place finish in the World Cup 10-kilometre women's pursuit in Pokljuka, Slovenia on Saturday. Based on her 41st-place finish on Thursday in the women's 7.