2025 marks the 89th annual Ponoka Stampede. While it’s favored by many athletes, fans, and stock contractors, the recent announcement has athletes elated, as they’ve announced an increase in added ...

Each year, many rodeo contestants look forward to the iconic Ponoka Stampede. With 2025 marking the year of the largest payouts in history and the addition of breakaway roping to the performances, the ...

This isn't Trevor Jones's first rodeo. For 50 years, the family business of Jones Boys Saddlery and Western Wear in Ponoka, Alta., has been custom fitting cowboy hats and boots and outfitting locals ...

Taylor Cherry and Lynns Honor ("Lenny") had already sealed their names inside the record books with a major win this spring at Royal Crown Canada, but the past month has solidified how remarkable ...

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PONOKA — If you want to talk about a dominator in rodeo, Kaycee Feild is your man. The Utah bareback rider hasn’t let anyone knock him off the world champion pedestal for the past three years, and ...

During the Independence Day week, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's top hands traveled extensively. The time of the season is called Cowboy Christmas, when there is an abundance of ...

EDMONTON - Jake Vold had no idea what to expect. The Ponoka bareback rider had been on only three bucking horses — none in a sanctioned rodeo — since he tore up his left elbow at this summer’s Calgary ...

Editor’s note: RCMP originally stated the woman who died at the Ponoka Stampede was 30. The woman was in fact 34 and the story has since been corrected. A woman died while practicing for the opening ...

For one week each year, the Town of Ponoka balloons to more than 10 times its size to celebrate all things rodeo. “It’s something that’s a part of my life, and part of everybody’s life here. It’s ...