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A mining financier, Franco-Nevada Corp., announced it will buy a stake worth $400 million in the Weyburn Oil Unit, in a deal with Penn West Petroleum. The company said they have a deal with Penn West to acquire 11.

The Weyburn Police Service attended to 82 calls for the week of Nov. 4-10. At about 1 a.m. police were called to a report of a hit-and-run in the 500 Block of McGillivray Drive on Nov. 4.

Grade 9 students at the Estevan Comprehensive School were absent from the classroom on Nov. 7 while they took part in Take Our Kids to Work Day. Last Wednesday, Jack Tuttle spent the day as his dad's shadow.

She just celebrated her 90th birthday, and now Estevan artist Evelyn Johnson has joined an elite group of fellow artists whose work has been selected by a respected art adjudicator to advance to another level and provincial exposure.

The Weyburn Credit Union, along with credit unions across Saskatchewan, are responding to the devastation caused to families by Hurricane Sandy in the United States and the Caribbean.

The Weyburn Humane Society is seeking votes in the Shelter Challenge of 2012, organized by the Animal Rescue Site. With the help of local residents, the Weyburn Humane Society could win one of 68 prizes from the Animal Rescue Site.

The efforts to replace Estevan lone's OBGYN are proving successful. St. Joseph's Hospital executive director Greg Hoffort said Dr.

More than 300 people braved high winds, drifting snow and cold temperatures on Sunday morning to attend the annual Remembrance Day service in the Estevan Comprehensive School.

The Weyburn Police Association's bargaining committee went public with their grievances after an attempt to have conciliation for their contract talks with the City of Weyburn failed.

Band teacher, Tanya Cameron, conducts the Weyburn Comprehensive Grade 11 and 12 school band at the high school on Wednesday. The students are practicing daily in preparation for their upcoming Christmas concert on Dec. 18, at 7:30 p.m.