Estevan Mercury

The target was to raise just over $90,000 over four or five years but the St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary team did it in two. That kind of dedication was in full view on Dec.

The debut novel from Estevan’s Rhonda Stock looks at a time in Saskatchewan’s history that draws on the contrasts of the modern Prairie boom. For Dust and Devils , the setting is important, like any take on historical fiction.

The Editor, The Saskatchewan Green Party applauds a move by the Wall Government to add gender identity protection to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. This is an idea that the Saskatchewan Greens have always championed.

The Editor, Statistics Canada’s 2008–2009 Canadian Community Health Survey found that 19 per cent of seniors aged 65 or over felt left out, isolated from others, or that they lacked companionship.

Was it bemusement or befuddlement? I wasn’t sure.

It might not have been quite as bad as we feared. Nevertheless, Finance Minister Ken Krawetz’s mid-year update of the 2014-15 budget offered signs that things aren't quite as rosy as his Saskatchewan Party government has been suggesting.

City council will be deliberating the upcoming budget sometime early in the new year, and the implications of that document will be great. We’ve seen a lot of change in just a few years. There are few places as prosperous as the Energy City.

On Dec. 2 at about 11 a.m. Estevan RCMP were called to a serious collision on Highway 47 roughly four miles north of the city. A southbound semi hit a pickup truck that had proceeded westbound across the highway from a grid road.

Estevan Police conduct tactical entry following a disturbance in central part of city