Estevan Mercury

The nominations are now in and the judging has begun for the 13th annual Women of Today Awards.

The Estevan elementary school system, and the Westview School community in particular, were left reeling this week when the news hit them that a pre-teen student had died, apparently by her own hand, on Sunday.

The news that South East Cornerstone School Division was going to receive less money from the province than last year indicates to us that the Ministry of Education still has a lot of homework to do before unleashing its new province-wide funding for

A 46-year-old man was arrested and charged with committing a number of offences when he was picked up by members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) during the day of April 5.

Looks like variety night once again for this column, boys and girls, because there was so much happening that I find worthy of caustic commentary. Students at a university in Maryland were instructed to "unplug" for a day as part of a social survey.

More than 50 young hockey players displayed their game over the weekend at the Estevan Bruins spring camp.

The Estevan Bruins spring camp was a glimpse of a team that is going to be very different from years past. The makeup of the Bruins in the 2011-12 season is not only going to be younger, but also a fast, highly skilled group of hockey players.

An increase in the amount of water being released from Boundary Dam is expected to cause some flooding in low lying areas along the Souris River.

A pair of drug dealers were sentenced in Estevan provincial court on Monday. Fernand Richard Dallaire, an Estevan resident, provided a guilty plea to drug charges and gave a joint submission to the court recommending three months of incarceration.