I won't have anything for you guys except a Wild Card for the next 4 days. I'm going to kick back and enjoy the glorious sunshine that's visited us for some time now, making the long winter and the nonexistent spring nothing more than memories.…
J. Scott Applewhite/APA trio of humpback whales break the surface of the water as they work together in a group behavior known as "bubble feeding" off the coast of Cape Cod near Provincetown, Mass., recently. In a group activity unique to the endangered humpbacks, they…
... that she's trying to get ahold of Spokane Mayor Mary Verner to discuss the Coeur d'Alene Press editorial this morning -- you know, the one in which the Press slams Spokane people for trashing the Lake City weekend after weekend. Mayor Bloem told Huckleberries…
Kyle Mills/Lewiston Tribune, APDarion Wilson, 7, of Las Vegas, Nevada reacts as his LEGO robot makes its first turn through an obstacle course during Lewis-Clark State College's Kids' College Wednesday in Lewiston.National 'Gaurd': Evans, 73, is a woman on a mission. It began the day…
5:17 p.m. City Beach lifeguard reports that a park user is chasing a thief who's riding off on his Schwinn Predator bike toward Independence Point.5:13 p.m. Now, the reporting party is saying that the bus he saw stopped under the overpass was a charter bus…
Hartgen hired me in the summer of 1996 to work as The Times-News' city editor. The move was a big jump for me — partly because the city editor, the air traffic controller supervising a reporting staff, has the toughest and most stressful job in…
The St. Maries couple charged with severely abusing their 3-year-old toddler will face additional charges. The girl's mother, 26-year-old Christina Haynes, and her mother's boyfriend, 29-year-old Charles William Smith, initially faced charges of felony injury of a child. Haynes and Smith now face two counts…
" To the writer of this editorial....I thought I was the only person that felt this way. The only difference is that the locusts leave, Spokanites don't. I believe there has been some sort of unexplained event in the state of Washington that has dried…
Roman Polanski may be a criminal. He may be a pervert. He may be a spawn of Satan for all I know. Whatever else he is, though, he’s a hell of a filmmaker. “Chinatown” proves that. As does “The Pianist.” And so does “Rosemary’s Baby,”…
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s office has issued a 12-page opinion concluding that there was nothing illegal about the secret tax deals struck by the state Tax Commission with large multistate corporations, excusing them from paying part of their Idaho taxes. The deals were revealed…
On a more serious note, I must say I am appalled by what's going on. Even if taping is legal, when is it and when is it not ethical? For keeping track of the facts about a policy question, why not just announce that you'll…
The House voted more lopsidedly, 383-41, to override. As you might expect, all of the region’s Democrats voted to override. But so, it turns out, did five of the six Northwest Republicans - all from Washington and Oregon along with Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho.…
The worst summer job I had was picking raspberries. Bar none. My mom got sick of us kids fighting and whining all summer around the house and made us go pick raspberries at some hideous Spokane Valley raspberry farm. I only remember doing it a…
A stone at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery that honors the men and women of America's armed services includes the following typo: 'U.S. Coast Gaurd.' Who should pay to fix it?/Idaho Statesman. *Coast Guard*Cemetery*Company that made the monument*No one -- leave it alone
All the money in the world won't keep these people out of prison. Meyer, Nipp, Kennedy, Oliveria, et al. Their opposition to putting the spotlight on the LCDC is simply a cover for not wanting the spotlight on them. When all is said and done,…
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.