Estevan Mercury

The Carlyle Cougars senior hockey team will begin play in the Big Six Hockey League at the start of the 2016-17 season if its bid for reinstatement is approved by the league's voting members at a late-April meeting.

Estevan could be welcoming between 14 and 20 Syrian refugees later this year if the committee charged with the task of completing the applications is given the green light of support.

The committee that is working to bring a STARS Air Ambulance helipad to the Galloway Health Centre in Oxbow moved one step closer to their goal on March 18 with a successful Dueling Pianos fundraising concert at the Oxbow Prairie Horizons School.

An early spring storm that rolled through southeast Saskatchewan on Tuesday delayed the Wawota Flyers’ first opportunity to clinch the Big Six Hockey League’s championship.

The CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins are on the brink of losing their SJHL quarter-final series with the Nipawin Hawks.

Cheers: Cheers to the Estevan Chamber of Commerce for initiating a campaign that will hopefully benefit both shoppers and businesses. #shoplocalEstevan Cheers to volunteer coaches. Your dedication to our children is much appreciated.

Life is never easy for small business owners, but it’s been particularly challenging in the last year-and-a-half. They’ve felt the pinch associated with the sliding oil prices.

Ricky Allen 1963 - 2016 Ricky John Allen, late of Estevan, SK passed away on Friday, March 11, 2016 at Arcola, SK at the age of 52 years.

The Editor: In a March 18, 2015, press release, the then Sask.

The Editor: It seems our Premier Brad Wall believes that private resource investments will benefit some interests in Saskatchewan more than public investments, where benefits could become available to all provincial residents.