Estevan Mercury

Despite losing to the Kindersley Klippers on Saturday night, the Estevan Bruins still have a shot at finishing in sixth place in the SJHL standings.

We're in the latter half of the winter, where it's shorter to go ahead to spring than to retreat back to fall if we even could. It's the home stretch, but it's perhaps the most miserable.

Two people are dead after a house fire Tuesday morning in Estevan.

For this local girl, there isn't much sweeter than spending a day outside on the hunt. Shayna Hamilton was recognized at the Estevan Wildlife Federation's awards dinner on Feb. 1 for the elk she shot while on her first hunt alone last year.

Forced to run the gauntlet against three tough opponents, the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins came home with one win from a weekend road trip.

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The candidates are starting to line up for the Conservative Party nomination in the Souris-Moose Mountain constituency. A third man - Torquay Mayor Mike Strachan - has announced he plans to seek the nomination and run in the 2015 federal election.

The Sun Country Health Region is celebrating the fruits of its labour. In a recent press release Sun Country announced that 15 new doctors who have arrived in the region since January of 2013.

There was no shortage of goals for either team on Thursday, as the Estevan TS&M Bruins and Regina Monarchs battled to a 6-6 tie in the provincial capital. Bruins defenceman Brayden Pachal scored with 2:24 to play to give the visitors a point.

It has become one of the biggest issues in Canadian politics and not surprisingly it dominated the conversation at the Saskatchewan Urban Municipality Association's annual meeting last week in Regina.