Estevan Mercury

Like many others in southeast Saskatchewan, the City of Estevan is waiting to hear how much of the damages and costs incurred during the floods of 2011 will be covered by the Provincial Disaster Assistance Plan.

The Kaukie Monster lived up to his name.

The Sloan family is another in a long list of rural Saskatchewan residents frustrated by last year's flooding and how it's been dealt with.

Fresh on the heels of the wildly successful Hedley concert, the City of Estevan has announced another top-selling Canadian pop act will be performing at Spectra Place.

Ambitious financial target for this year's event

Now I have one more reason not to be part of the Twitter community: I don't want to be, as David Bowie might once have put it, a junkie junkie. Twitter, I have learned, is one of the most addictive things in today's culture.

If you grew up on a farm previous to the 1980s, the term summerfallow was as common to you as wheat. Every farmer factored summerfallow into the farm crop rotation, often 50 per cent of the land left fallow to "rest" while the other half was cropped.

Maybe this will be the year for Justin Morneau. By this time next year, perhaps the 30-year-old New Westminster, B.C., native will be holding a Major League Baseball trophy for comeback player of the year.

He said The microwave is a modern gastronomical miracle. I have never lived in a world without a means to quickly blast cold food with energy and heat it up so it's edible.