March 6, 2009 in Outdoors Grace Yancey might someday write a book about her childhood winters – the igloo playhouse, a breezy three-sided latrine and visitors from around the world at her Little House in …

March 6, 2009 in City Jessica Hay has no illusions about where she would be were it not for the scholarships she is receiving while attending Eastern Washington University.

March 6, 2009 in City, Idaho Lingering winter weather is expected to continue across the region through the middle of next week as a new northern cold front drops southward across the Inland Northwest on Saturday, …

  March 6, 2009 in Idaho Read the Coeur d’Alene Police Department log for March 3 to March 5, 2009.

  March 6, 2009 in Idaho Read the Bonner County law enforcement log for March 5, 2009.

  March 6, 2009 in City Read the Spokane Police activity and service logs for March 3 and 4, 2009.

March 6, 2009 in Idaho Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he is upholding a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, including in Idaho and Montana, …

March 6, 2009 in Region The suspicious death of a woman in the Moses Lake house where her boyfriend was killed has been ruled natural causes.

March 6, 2009 in Idaho Idaho’s unemployment is on the rise again. The rate was 6.8 percent in January, up two-tenths of a percentage point from just a month earlier.

March 6, 2009 in Nation/World Once again the old calendar on the wall says it’s time to change the clock, trading an hour’s sleep for more evening sunshine.

March 6, 2009 in Nation/World The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.

March 6, 2009 in City on Page A1 Spokane hospitals will not allow physicians to prescribe or administer lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients, opting out of a voter-approved initiative that allows the controversial practice. Executives … 1

March 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, has told network officials that he will not leave his television career to become the U.S. surgeon general, according to sources familiar …

March 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Joe Hazelwood, captain of the doomed oil tanker Exxon Valdez, is offering “a very heartfelt apology” to Alaskans for the disastrous 1989 oil spill in Prince William … 1

March 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The House on Thursday passed legislation that would allow bankruptcy judges to modify the terms of troubled home mortgages, overcoming fierce financial industry opposition. The bill, a package …

March 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 BRUSSELS – In its first overture to Iran, the Obama administration is pushing to convene a high-level meeting on Afghanistan this month that would include an invitation to Tehran, Secretary …