Tongue firmly cheeked on this April Fools Day, Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho posts: "While driving this morning near Bayview I came upon a large herd of famous North Idaho bison taking a stroll on the road. They were on their annual migration to the ancient…
Item: Report finds midwife use keeps pace with Idaho birth rates/Idaho Statesman More Info: The portion of births being assisted by midwives in Idaho is keeping pace as the number of births rises. Midwives were on hand for 5.4 percent of the 24,185 babies born…
Christopher Anderson/Spokesman-ReviewMackenzie Mortluck (left) and Alyssa Beck help plant 2,722 pinwheels Tuesday, April 1, 2008 in Spokane, Wash. outside Sacred Heart Medical Center. The pinwheels represent all the babies born at Sacred Heart Hospital last year. *Newspaper April Fools joke about Tamarack Resort not funny…
The flap between Navy and the local Buck knife giveaway to Iraq War vets has caught the attention of the conservative Web giant, WorldNetDaily. Now, the story is No. 2 on the site, titled: Navy prevents town from honoring vets: 'Who's in charge here? Dumb…
Courtesy/Miss USATracey Brown of Post Falls, Miss Idaho USA 2008, poses in her evening gown during Registrations and Fittings for the Miss USA competition at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada last week. She will compete for the title of Miss…
Colleen Handle/AP Photo/USGS Alaska Science CenterIn this undated photo provided by the USGS Alaska Science Center shows a black-capped chickadee, the most affected birds of "long billed syndrome". "Long-billed syndrome” has been recorded in about 160 birds by a Skagit County researcher, mostly in Western…
Robert F. Bukaty/Associated PressWorkers wash the dirt off the National Aquatics Center, also called the "Water Cube" in Beijing. The building's exterior is sheathed in a Teflon-like plastic membrane. The center will be the venue for swimming and diving events during the 2008 Beijing Olympic…
In case you’ve missed the thousands of Internet stories posted about Thomas Beatie of Bend, a local who was born female but is legally male, you can hear Beatie tell the tale Thursday on the Oprah Winfrey show. The reason Oprah is bringing a guest…
Dana Brinnon and William BrinnonVideo: Capt. Ben Wolfinger discussing case/Krem2Story: Rathdrum homicide suspect remains in intensive care/Taryn Hecker, SR
HBO was told that Police Chief Wayne Longo was the CPD Blue below. But Wayne sez it wasn't himA Berry Picker waiting at the Kootenai County Courthouse to testify in a divorce settlement case was amazed by what she saw Monday morning. Seems a CPD…
After much introspection, and discussions with my wonderful family, I have decided to legally change my name to AntiDesignated Hitter in anticipation of a future run for elected office. Are there more important issues facing our nation? Perhaps. Yet I can think of no other…
A 46-year-old Rathdrum man who allegedly killed his wife Monday evening and then attempted to kill himself remains in intensive care today at Kootenai Medical Center, police said. William V. Brinnon lost an eye due to the self-inflicted gunshot wound, but he is expected to…
Item: Cd'A Home Schooler Wins Regional Spelling Bee/RuralNorthwest.comMore Info: Eighth-grader Rachel Pinkerton of Coeur d'Alene outspelled 38 other fourth- through eighth-graders from the five northern counties of Idaho to become the champion speller in the fifth annual North Idaho Regional Spelling Bee March 29 at…
Get the Flash Player to see this video.Kathy Plonka/Video JournalOscar Mooney spent 25 years working the same five-mile stretch of Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River. Rain or shine, ice or fog, the tug captain delivered logs to local sawmills. It's a chapter of…
The press should be totally exempt from all taxes and laws, should not vote, should eat only special food made just for them, drink water from a proprietary glacier, and live in a restricted area where they police themselves. This way, the press will be…
Us poor white trash, hillbillies, rednecks that live out in the boonies, are not a threat to you spokaloo Falls folk. I, myself, trailer trash, have a car that would pass these tests. Having said that, There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of people that live…
Greg Wahl-Stephens/AP PhotoConservative Talk Radio Hostess, Victoria Taft, asks her listeners to consider temporarily switching their party affiliation from Republican to Democrat in order to vote for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Oregon Primary, as she broadcasts from her KPAM studio in Milwaukie,…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
