Estevan

The Weyburn Field Office for Whitecap Resources Inc. hosted the provincial Minister of Energy and Resources, Colleen Young, Thursday morning, as she toured the facility and gleaned information about innovation in the oil and gas sector happening here in the Weyburn area.  

A road will be closed today as crews are working on the sewer systems.

The 1800 block of Pettigrew Road will be closed with no through traffic.

The public is asked to avoid the area while construction work is being done.

With harvest season underway in the Redvers area, fire safety remains a top priority for farmers and motorists alike. Brad Hutton, fire chief for Redvers Fire and Rescue, shared practical advice to prevent field and equipment fires during this busy time of year.

“Some equipment is obviously gonna have big headers on it or squatters, and it'll just be slow-moving,” Hutton said. “Patience on the farmers' part and also just motorists using the highways is always a good thing.”

The Canadian economy lost jobs for the second month in a row as the unemployment rate climbed to its highest level since May 2016, excluding the pandemic period.

Statistics Canada said Friday the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.1 per cent in August, its highest level since August 2021, as the economy lost 66,000 jobs for the month.

The report follows the July labour force survey that showed a loss of 41,000 jobs and an unemployment rate of 6.9 per cent.

The Om Yoga Festival is set to take over Rotary Park-Woodlawn Regional Park in Estevan this weekend with a full lineup of activities, workshops, and community connections.

People in Carlyle may have received a brief, unplanned outage for natural gas services yesterday as SaskEnergy was working nearby.

In the town of Carlyle on the afternoon of September 4, SaskEnergy was conducting maintenance work on the Carlyle Town Border station, which resulted in the outage.

The service has since been restored; however, SaskEnergy Technicians are now going door-to-door to assist customers in relighting and safely restarting their appliances and performing system safety checks.

The Estevan Police Service posted a few recent calls they received mid-week from the local community.

One report described a female yelling in a parking lot of a business in the east end of the city. Officers spoke with the individual, and she was cautioned about her behaviour before being sent on her way.

Officers were present for a well-being check on an elderly family member. Members made contact with the person and determined that he was safe and well.

The NextAcre Real Estate Grain Rush is back for harvest season 2025, and the latest stop brought Discover Estevan, Sun 102, Country 106.1, and CJ1150 out to Benson to meet with Honan Farms.

Tristan from Honan Farms said the crew is about a third of the way through harvest, with peas and durum wrapped up. “It would be nice to have a warm meal in the combine right about now,” he shared, adding that the durum crop was a bit of a challenge this year because of weeds and wet conditions.

Estevan Minor Hockey is gearing up for another busy season with returning board members, dedicated coaches, and a series of events aimed at engaging the local community.

Stephen Truman, the president of Estevan Minor Hockey, says the board has largely returned from last season, with a few new faces in the younger divisions and some shuffled roles to help the organization run smoothly. “Returning faces help keep everyone familiar with the goings-on of EMHA and make things run smoother,” Truman noted.

The Estevan area is proving to be a key site in understanding what life looked like after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Royal Saskatchewan Museum curator of paleontology Ryan McKellar and his team spent part of their summer working along coal seams near Estevan, uncovering tiny pieces of amber, fossilized tree resin, that date back roughly 60 to 62 million years.