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The Prince George Spruce Kings have signed two homegrown defencemen and have extended their horizons south of the border to add two more players for the 2014-15 B.C. Hockey League season.

Jake Virtanen showed Thursday why Hockey Canada wanted him for the national under-18 team.

The Prince George Pisces summer swim club wants people to know club activities are not limited to the warm-weather months only.

The Stanley Cup playoffs started on Wednesday. For countless folks around Prince George - and indeed across North America - that made Tuesday night hockey pool night.

Andrew Casey doesn't want to leave his dream job as head coach of the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club. That decision was made for him when his wife Erica, a family physician, accepted a one-year residency in emergency medicine in Winnipeg.

From Salmon Arm to the 2015 Canada Winter Games, 80 female hockey players have earned a chance to audition for Team B.C.

Brett Connolly did it six years ago, before he went on to the NHL. He was selected along with his under-16 hockey peers from around the province to play in the B.C. Cup tournament , and look where that got him.

Allison Bogle remembers a time when there were five men's sides in the B.C. Indoor Soccer League. That was back in 1994 when Bogle moved to Prince George after she graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Prince George Barracudas swimmer Sydney Lopez was all smiles Sunday after seeing her report card from the Dental Moose Meet. It was plastered with double-A's.

Frank LaBounty would love to break a tie when he visits Montreal later this month. In nine national wheelchair curling championships, LaBounty has won three silver medals and three gold medals competing with Team B.C.