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SaskPower has announced that all customers who lost electricity due to the winter storm that hit Saskatchewan Wednesday and Thursday have now had their services restored, as of 4:45 p.m. Saturday.

After one of the most brutal years for the Canadian oilpatch, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is forecasting a 14 per cent increase in upstream natural gas and oil investment in 2021.

SaskPower has provided an update on the efforts to restore power to people across the province. The Crown corporation experienced a large number of outages last night, from as far northeast as Nipawin and as far southwest as Maple Creek.

December was the best month of the year for the carbon capture and storage facility at SaskPower's Boundary Dam Power Station, capping what was a productive year for the project.

Community Futures (CF) Sunrise is kicking off the new year by offering some important learning sessions for local community leaders.

The City of Estevan and 8 Rivers Capital have been awarded a grant to undertake a feasibility study for commercial-scale NET Power facility deployment.

The Estevan Mercury continued to be the hub for information in the city in 2020. The newspaper’s website, www.estevanmercury.ca, was a popular destination for community members looking to keep up to date on news and sports in the region.

The community was eager to tackle its Christmas shopping locally this year, and that was good news for the businesses that are part of the Shop Estevan initiative.

Estevan city council took a long, hard look at the 2021 civic budget on Monday – a document that features a number of needed projects, but does not, at this time, include a property tax increase.

Husky Energy, which was acquired by Cenovus Energy, had been Saskatchewan’s top oil producer for the first 11 months of 2020. According to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Resources, from January to November, 2020, Husky produced 31.