Estevan Mercury

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Education's move to lengthen and also set a minimum standard for the number of hours spent on instruction in provincial classrooms has been fairly well received in most quarters.

The Editor: I don't think some people fully understand why there is an urgent need to have a CT scan available in our city.

A disturbance at a local business resulted in a call to the Estevan Police Service (EPS) on the night of Jan. 23. A 50-year-old man was subsequently arrested by police and was lodged in cells until he regained sobriety.

The Editor: The reason for a truck bypass is to take traffic away from a city. This proposed bypass for Estevan does just the opposite. I do not think the people realize that all streets in and out of the city will be dead ended at the bypass.

The Estevan Sherritt Coal Bruins were hoping that their recent strong performance against the Yorkton Terriers would translate into continued success in their provincial peewee AA series.

For the 35th year, Estevanites gathered at the Estevan Legion to pay tribute to The Bard. Assembling in the Legion Memorial Hall Jan.

Some of the biggest ductworks you're ever going to see crawled across southeastern Saskatchewan side roads last week on their way to Boundary Dam Power Station.

Following a May 2011 incident in which three people were kidnapped and assaulted by a group of seven local men and women, five will be serving jail time of between 10 and 30 months.

The CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins toppled the highest-scoring team in the SJHL on Friday, but couldn't build on that success the next night.

The merger of Spectra Credit Union with Saskatoon-based Affinity Credit Union has an added twist to it, but the premise and basis of the original proposal to amalgamate remains intact and unchanged.