Estevan Mercury

I don't know why, but sometimes I get into crazy conversations and it happened again. I can usually confine my crazy communications efforts to this office where we toil. We have enough off-the-wall characters around here to keep me amused for hours.

The Olympics have a strange kind of power. Those five rings, and the things they represent, can compel us to spend hours watching athletes we've never heard of, from countries we often know little about, perform in sports we'd normally never watch.

Learning to walk is one of the first skills we all develop as a child, but Brittany Orsted had to learn to do it all over again. The Estevan teen recently returned from her jaunt to Toronto as a participant in the Miss Teen Canada World competition.

With most of the industrial activity around Estevan centring on coal mining and oil drilling, residents of the southeast are used to depending on what's under their feet.

A miserable season for the Southeast Legacy Twins ended in much the same fashion on the weekend, as the baseball club crashed out of the provincial midget AAA championship in Saskatoon with an 0-3 record.

St. Joseph's Hospital is in a better position to help Estevan and area residents thanks to a significant new purchase. The hospital announced on Thursday it has purchased two new anesthetic machines for its operating rooms.

So why aren't we using the water? We have acres of potable water at our beck and call in the form of the Rafferty and Alameda reservoirs, and yet we are doing precious little with it in terms of investment, development and recreational pursuits.

An Estevan man will serve jail time after leading police on a high-speed chase on Highway 39 that ended in a head-on collision.

A number of alcohol-fuelled disturbances and incidents absorbed most of the time and interest of Estevan Police Service (EPS) personnel during the past weekend.

While there may not be any visible signs of progress on the Estevan truck bypass file, rest assured there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes as provincial Highways and Infrastructure and other government agencies push the project further alo