Huckleberries Online is beginning to show signs that it's all the way back from the blogware switch-over of last December that knocked page-views and unique views for a loop. Early in the year, the blog numbers were off by as much as 40%. By mid-summer,…
Freda Carda, right, helps her daughter Ayla, 5, figure out what to do with her first few minutes of the new school year at Charles Wright Academy in University Place, Wash, Wednesday. Throughout the state, enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools has declined 8…
A helicopter herds two wild horses towards the corrals during a roundup at the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range near Lovell, Wyo., today. Story here. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Casey Riffe)Coeur d'Alene police blotter summary/SRPolice: Claims against 13YO rape victim are lies/KREMLarge flu out break looms…
Our president has planned a speech for the nation’s school kids next Tuesday, the first day of school for our district. My first thought was cool, my third graders can hear the president extol them to work hard and do their best. He’s a great…
Eventual winner Pat Bertoletti, left center, of Chicago and second-place finisher Joey Chestnut of San Jose battle it out in the Best in the West Nugget World Rib Eating Championship in Sparks on Wednesday. Bertoletti ate 5.8 pounds of ribs in 12 minutes to narrowly…
5:09 p.m. Silverwood security if following an individual who tried to pass a counterfeit $100.4:59 p.m. Hayden R/P reports that a woman showed up on his doorstep, claiming to be the victim of a sexual assault.4:55 p.m. Post Falls police have contacted an impaired individual…
Dick Panabaker, the former Kootenai County commission chairman and former Hayden mayor, has filed his candidacy papers for the Hayden City Council seat now held by Anson Gabel. Panabaker is one of two candidates who have filed papers for council Seat 2. The other is…
Jeff Ward, president of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans, tells Huckleberries that his organization invited Walt Minnick to address a meeting on health reform before the Democrat congressman announced his own townhall meeting at North Idaho College. In an e-mail this afternoon, Ward said:"We invited…
Katherine Callaway Hall listens during an interview in New York earlier today. Hall was abducted and raped in 1976 by California kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido and says he deserves the death penalty. Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and face…
Today, Tania Dall and her photographer had the tough task of going to their neighborhood to see what people had to say. It’s something reporters don’t always like to do, but it’s a necessary evil to tell the story. Most often, families are not interested…
Re: Sgt. Christie Wood e-mailed the following statement to area media a few minutes ago:Yesterday two television stations called me and asked me if the Police Department had any knowledge that the statements made by a manager in an RV Park about the 13 year…
A tile design featuring a swastika is shown on the floor of the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls on Thursday. The tile floor was installed in 1921, more than a decade before Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and adopted the swastika as the…
Mike Ferguson, Gov. Butch Otter’s chief economist, said of today’s new state tax revenue forecast, “Everybody’s been dreading it, but I don’t think anybody’s going to be particularly surprised by it, because we’ve known that things have not gone terribly well. Hopefully we’re getting closer…
Ask my daughter-in-law Sharis how fast a skunk can run… lot faster than their dog! Had a bicyclist on the Trail of the Cd’A’s come within 15 feet of a smaller bull moose that was walkin’ up the trail between Bull Run and Black Rock…
I’ve seen wolves in Yellowstone, at a distance so great you could only see them as specks through a high power spotting scope. I’ve seen one wolf in Idaho, who appeared quite suddenly and disappeared just as suddenly; even had I been holding a loaded…
A Grand Cayman blue iguana hatches from its egg at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research on Monday. The Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research is one of several conservation organizations working with the Blue Iguana Recovery Program in Grand Cayman to increase the…
From former Hayden Councilman Chris Beck: I have filed to run for city council for the City of Hayden Lake. We moved to Hayden Lake from Hayden about 2 years ago. The incumbents for the two open positions are Tom Gorman (re-elected in 2007) and…
I like listening to classic rock; listening to the great songs of the '60s, '70s, and '80s is one of my favorite pasttimes. If your only knowledge of the music of that period comes from what you hear on radio stations today, you might think…
First, let’s say (Idaho liberals) persuade Minnick to vote more liberally. Any more liberal and Minnick will be too liberal for this district. Net result: The Democrats will lose the seat. Secondly, they could consider putting up a third party candidate from the left to…
"As if the blue smurf turf wasn't enough to make people adjust their televisions," posts Brandon Hansen/Just South of North, "Boise State is suggesting that fans where certain colors of shirts based on their seat section during their season opener against Oregon tonight. Look at…
Digger: You know what we need next spring? Rami Amaro to take on Judge John Mitchell again. Talk about good times. :-)Question: Which municipal race this falls offers us Merry Hucksters the best chance for unmitigated shenanigans a la Ramaro? Why?
rom Sept. 11-13, the Davenport Hotel will be awash in even more history than usual. That’s because the hotel will be the site of the 2009 Washington State Genealogical Conference. Genealogists, family historians and teachers will gather to swap tips, tell stories and talk about…
12:14 p.m. NIC maintenance workers have removed a vacuum cleaner cord that had caused elevator doors to stick, trapping a person within.11:41 a.m. Keith @ Farragut Park HQ reports that someone has cut a fence in the park.11:31 a.m. A man in a silver pickup…
A grasshopper sits on a sunflower at sunset on a ranch west of Sutherlin, Ore., Wednesday. (Robin Loznak, AP Photo/The News-Review)Cartoon: Who's the real energy patriot?/David Horsey, Seattle P-IVandalism costs mounting in Idaho forests/SRIdaho court won't remove pre-Nazi swastika tiles/APMontana Justice Department: Amber Alert text…
This undated image provided by the Guiness World Records Book launch shows Lee Redmond, right, former record holder for longest fingernails (28-ft 4-in), posing with with Melvin Booth, the male owner of the longest finger nails (29-ft 8-in). This photo was taken just a few…
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.
