Estevan Mercury

Well you have to hand it to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. They have surprised us in each and every one of their first five games of the 2012 CFL season. The trouble is it hasn't always been a pleasant surprise.

You've to hand it to B.C. Premier Christy Clark. It takes a lot of balls to do what she did just prior to last week's provincial premier's conference, and then throughout the meeting.

It was interesting to listen to a brief presentation made recently by Johannes Vervloed, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

I read the 50 Shades of Grey series. I kept seeing the cover everywhere, reading the hype online and without really knowing the subject matter of the series, I bought the trilogy on my eReader and added them to my summer reading list.

One of the most amazing things about the recent Canadian women's amateur golf championship in Lethbridge - besides the incredible 14-under-par score over four rounds posted by the champ, Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand - was the utter dominance by teena

There are a few things that journalists aren't allowed to do. Some of them are things nobody should really do, like accept a bribe. Other rules are just for reporters. Nobody else has to write under the standards of Canadian Press.

Many local athletes were active on the first day of competition at the Saskatchewan Summer Games in Meadow Lake on Monday, as baseball and swimming were two of the main sports being contested.

A 62-year-old woman is dead after she was hit by a truck while attempting to cross the street Monday morning. According to information from the Estevan Police Service, officers received a 911 call at 8:50 a.m.

Benson pitcher Kris Keating is nearing the end of his first season in the Western Major Baseball League. Keating has spent the last two school years with the Northern State University Wolves in Aberdeen, S.D.

The release of the police reported crime statistics for 2011 contained some mixed results for the city of Estevan.