The Western Star

Travelling long distances to carve up slopes throughout Atlantic Canada was a commitment budding alpine skiers in this province had to make if they wanted to find out where they stack up. That commitment has paid off for a group of athletes who ...

Mountain bikers on the west coast have some pretty neat trails to manoeuvre on the west coast of the province, but life is about to get better for them. The West Coast Cycling Association is moving ahead with a plan to build a mountain bike skills ...

Grand Falls-Windsor has no trails designed specifically for mountain bikers, but that’s about to change. The International Mountain Bike Association Canada (IMBA) came to town Sept. 22 to offer a free mountain bike trail building course, ...

The Deer Lake Figure Skating Club is up and running for another season at the Hodder Memorial Recreation Complex in Deer Lake. At the weekly Wednesday afternoon practice session Star 2 and Star 3 skaters worked to improve their spins, jumps ...

Ryan Parsons knows he has to throw strikes and that’s all he’s going to worry about this weekend. Parsons, a 17-year-old Level 3 student at Stephenville High, is the pitcher for the Stephenville Spartans entry in the 2018 provincial 4A ...

Growing up on the north shore of the Bay of Islands, Nick Park found a second home when he discovered the softball diamond. It was an outlet for him to have fun with his friends and keep himself busy in a community where there wasn’t a lot ...

Nathan Barker doesn’t smile or laugh too often when he’s caught up in the action on the basketball court with the Memorial Sea-Hawks. He’s all business, working feverishly in pursuit of putting up points and helping his team win ...

Gia Caul skates effortlessly up the ice in full stride at a quick pace. She carves up the ice, weaving in and out of traffic, trying to bury a goal for her team or be the playmaker on a nice setup on a goal by one of her teammates. Caul, the ...

Elementary students from the Humber Valley region converged on C.C. Loughlin in Corner Brook Wednesday for a Fun Run for boys and girls in the various grades. The Corner Brook school played host to a fun run for elementary students in the Humber ...

More hands mean less work. That’s the philosophy Wanda Wight is following as she tries to keep a developmental basketball program alive at Pasadena Place. For the past two years, the Town of Pasadena operated the Steve Nash Basketball ...