Local News

Between March 29 and April 4 the RCMP responded to 57 calls. On March 29 there was a 911 call of an individual hearing gun shots fired in the Carlyle area. RCMP patrols were made and stop checks were performed.

A group of Grade 10 girls listen as First Nations cultural advisor Barb Frazer talks about the beading they were just doing on moccasins, as well as about some natural items that First Nations people use in their everyday lives.

On the night of March 28, Estevan Police Service (EPS) personnel spent several hours busily engaged in the process of arresting and protecting inebriated citizens.

A new Emergency Flood Damage Reduction Program has been announced for spring 2013 by the Water Security Agency, to help residents who are faced with threats of flooding.

The City of Estevan is continuing its push to have the provincial government pay for 60 per cent of the cost to repair damaged local streets.

Weyburn city council is warning residents of imminent increases in school taxes due to the provincial property reassessment process. City-wide, the total increase to school taxes will come to nearly $1.

The members of the Spectra Credit Union have thrown their support behind a proposed partnership with the Affinity Credit Union and Advantage Credit Union. Spectra held its annual general meeting Monday night at its Estevan headquarters.

Trenna Keating, a former Weyburn local, takes the role of Doc Yewll in a new science fiction series "Defiance".

With the two-year anniversary of the flood that devastated their community nearing, Roche Percee has a plan to revive the village and move forward.

They are not pushing the panic button quite yet but March's heavy snowfalls have increased concerns about the potential of a flood in Southeast Saskatchewan.