If the Coeur d’Alene High girls basketball team had a true point guard, it would win the State 5A championship going away. Ball handling has been the Vikings’ Achilles heel this season, but they’ve managed to get by with a guard-by-committee approach. Highland tested Coeur…
A fisherman stands near his boat on the main channel of the Mississippi River as ice begins to break apart from warmer temperatures near Dubuque, Iowa, Thursday (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Dave Kettering)
So what do you think of the new Political Wild Card today. Did it do its job isolating general political discussion to one thread, as advertised? I might run a poll next year featuring various names suggested for the Political Wild Card to see which…
In December 1770, while arguing for the acquittal of British soldiers charged with killing his fellow Americans in the Boston Massacre, John Adams said, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter…
"The Class of 2010 River City Leadership Academy is working on Silent Witness silhouettes," posts Councilwoman KerriT/More Main Street. "Kimball Office provided thirty two particle board cut-outs and ACE Hardware donated the paint. The RCLA volunteers are working in the Post Falls Lions Club shop…
5:08 p.m. Top of China reports that two males involved in a theft are cooperating and reading books at a restaurant table.5:06 p.m. A Post Falls mother reports that her son mooned a bus driver and is concerned what will happen to the boy if…
"My daughter recently got up close and personal with a few Gromphadorhina portentosa, otherwise known as the Madagascar hissing cockroach," posts Idaho Dad/A Family Runs Through It. "How’d you like to find one of these crawling up your shirt?"It's all well and good/A Family Runs…
Buffalo graze in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Loaded guns will be allowed in Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and other national parks under a new law that takes effect Monday. The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long…
But it all comes down to the fact that NewWest.Net does not advocate for anything. There is a difference between “advocate” and “opine.” Our opinion columns may endorse a particular point of view, but we would never go to a state legislature and try to…
Sen. Chuck Winder, R-Boise, said he will mail his petition calling for the release of Idahoans imprisoned in Haiti on Friday, and that more than a dozen senators have signed on in support. A Haitian judge released eight of the 10 Americans imprisoned in Haiti…
State lawmakers last week very nearly fumbled on an issue with massive implications for taxpayers. It happened Wednesday when the House State Affairs Committee voted 13-5 to reject a proposal to block a 1 percent cost of living increase for retirees on the state's pension…
Washington State University and Boise State University will play a home-and-home football series beginning in 2016, it was announced by both schools Friday. The first meeting of the two-game series is scheduled for Sept. 10, 2016 at Boise State with the venue shifting to Martin…
American Allison Pottinger delivers the stone in a victory over Russia in women's curling at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, today. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
"They didn't print the whole thing," (Diane) Capps (pictured) said of KLEW's coverage, adding she went on to say people could 'hang' Murray by voting her out of office. "Patty Murray has been hanging with the wrong crowd. I would hang Patty Murray by vote.…
Twenty-thousand people, more or less, were sent to Minidoka Relocation Center in Jerome Country during World War II. Most were Japanese-American residents of the Seattle area who would, after three or four years of humiliation at the hands of their adoptive country, be returned home…
JEERS ... to Gov. Otter. Tell this governor what he doesn't want to hear and he'll retaliate. Case in point: Idaho Public Television. Otter wants to wean public television from about $1.7 million in state tax support over the next four years. It means the…
Corina Lankford hugs her sons Josef (left), 10, and David, 6, after arriving with two other church volunteers at the Boise Airport early this morning. Stories below. (AP Photo / Idaho Statesman / Joe Jaszewski)Cartoon: National anthems at Olympics/David Horsey, Seattle P-IClarkston woman creates stir…
I watched all four games and was very impressed with the freshman twin guards from Highland and Meridian. The Warriors had Centennial on the ropes but didn’t finish.Overall, I thought Lewiston played the best Thursday. But Lewiston should have since it was essentially playing the…
Bubblehead: Ethical dilemma here that I'm hoping to get everyone's input on. I got a Facebook invite to a Meet and Greet for Raul Labrador. I don't see any circumstance under which I'd ever vote for him, but I'm thinking of going and asking if…
Firefighters and investigators look around the area by the damaged remains of a small aircraft inside a building, Friday in Austin, Texas. Joseph Stack flew his small airplane Thursday into the building that houses several offices of the Internal Revenue Service. More here. (AP Photo/Tony…
Mike McDowell made the following statement in announcing his bid for re-election as Kootenai County assessor: "I have the education, training and experience of more than 32 years in the Assessor's Office. I have served the property owners of Kootenai County as your senior deputy…
11:30 a.m. A pitbull or boxer puppy is loose @ Hayden Meadows Elementary. (Update 12:05): Puppy is now contained at house in 9900 block of Finucane/Hayden.11:20 a.m. Motorist reports 2 juveniles in a small, green SUV are hanging around in front of a neighbor's house…
(Realtor Chris) Fillios has set as his top priority the expansion of economic opportunity via job expansion, while maintaining the rural character of the region. Fillios believes that Kootenai County can have it both ways. "There’s no arguing that the citizens of Kootenai County have…
At Fort Ground Grill, Steve Widmyer and his troops are ready to put the shrimp on the barbie (actually to start preparing the taco bar and sundry other treats) for Blogfest 2010. The annual event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at…
The House has voted 48-19 in favor of HCR 42, the bill to block a 1 percent cost of living increase for state retirees next month. It wasn’t a straight party-line vote. Two Republicans, Reps. Bob Schaefer, R-Nampa, and Tom Trail, R-Moscow, voted against the…
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.
