The MTV Cribs series, back this season with the new moniker "Extreme Cribs," will feature the beagle-shaped building at Cottonwood's Dog Bark Park Inn in an episode airing Friday, Aug. 12. In the cable series family members take viewers on tours of their family’s unusual…
When Willie Nelson is on stage, three great gifts to music are present - an historic American song writer, one of the best guitar players in music and a singer with a unique nasal baritone warble that irritates some but absolutely delights Willieophiles. However, it…
Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil has announced that some of its controversial megaloads, instead of traveling a scenic route in Idaho, may instead rumble through Spokane on U.S. Highway 395 and I-90. The company said “lengthy permitting delays” for the original route across scenic U.S. Highway 12 from…
The road to becoming a professional bodybuilder is long, arduous and wrought with sacrifice. It's one Janet Kaufman of Lewiston knows all too well. After 24 years and thousands of hours pumping iron in the gym, the 45-year-old finally earned her International Federation of Bodybuilders…
Stickman & Walkabout snapped this family of osprey on the light standard in the outfield of one of the McEuen Field baseball fields.
In the fitness center locker room this morning, I struck up a conversation with a woman named Connie who had attended her 1971 Ferris High School 40th reunion over the weekend. Out of a class of about 525, at least 31 have died, and the…
It is not really true, as is often said, that history repeats. No historical analogy is ever 100 percent correct. What history does offer, if we’re smart enough to seek it, is a certain context for how decisions made long ago played out and that…
The death of retired Oregon Sen. Mark Hatfield this week reminds us of a time of bipartisanship that has long past in Congress. As a Republican Hatfield often challenged the positions of his own party to raise questions about the involvement in Vietnam and at…
A small audience watches the unveiling of a new larger-than-life-size bronze statue Friday at Centerplace in Spokane Valley. The bronze was placed and given by the Spokane Valley Arts Council. The statue, called "Berry Picker" is a replica of a small bronze by the late…
President Barack Obama is least popular in Idaho than any other state in the nation a new Gallup poll shows. Only 27 percent of Idahoans approve of the job Obama’s doing. In Wyoming, Oklahoma and Utah 32 percent approve and in West Virginia and Arkansas…
A US flag is flown at half staff behind a Navy memorial statue of a homecoming in Virginia Beach , Va., Monday. Navy Seal Team Six whose team members were involved in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, is based in Virginia Beach. Story here. (AP…
Noonish: 2 roommates in 700 block of Lancelot/PF are fighting. One refuses to leave. 11:59 a.m. PFPD Blue seeks F&G, saying moose is "having difficulty breathing." No location given. 11:53 a.m. 2 males are hitchhiking on e/b I-90 @ M/P 17 (Sherman Avenue). One is…
Is it that time already? I was lifting weights while watching TV in the living room last night when my wife jumped & I caught something out of the corner of my eye -- a pregnant hobo spider scurrying across the carpet. Those things creep…
In this AP file photo, President Clinton jokes with Rep. Harold Volkmer, D-Mo., left, and others before signing legislation providing $8.6 billion in aid to victims of last month's earthquake in the Oval Office of the White House Feb. 12, 1994. From left are Volkmer,…
Weekend Poll: Few Berry Pickers attend Silverwood. Only 16 of 135 respondents said they've visited Silverwood Theme Park this year -- 11.85 percent. 119 of 135 respondents (88.15%) said they haven't. Today's Poll (which is a multiple choice one): Who is to blame for the…
The decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade U.S. debt underscores the need for a major agreement on deficit reduction, President Obama said Monday. The president said U.S. debt remains world-class in the eyes of the markets despite S&P's downward revision — from Aaa to…
It was supposed to be a day of prayer, and fasting: Some 30,000 people converged a Houston, Texas, football stadium Saturday for an event called "The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis." The featured speaker was Texas Gov. Rick Perry (shown…
Terry Harris of the Kootenai Environmental Alliance tells Huckleberries Online via Twitter that his organization collected 990 signatures to Save The Trees on Dike Road from the mindless (you can see what side of the issue I'm on) demand by the U.S. Army Corps of…
I was checking out the many and diverse booths at Art on the Green when a maypole dance began on stage in the middle of the annual event. Which prompted a mother to say to her pre-teen daughter: "That's how kids used to play." Without…
The credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s showed “terrible judgment” in lowering the U.S. government’s credit rating, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (pictured w/President Obama) said Sunday. “They’ve handled themselves very poorly. And they’ve shown a stunning lack of knowledge about the basic U.S. fiscal budget…
As deputies describe it, the 6-year-old boy hit by a truck in Newman Lake on July 28 bounced between the Dodge’s undercarriage and the asphalt like a pinball. The boy’s bicycle helmet, which cracked in two places, may have saved his life. According the Sheriff’s…
Mark Mitchell of Coeur d'Alene is fixing up this camper trailer for Tristan Neilson, one of the Idaho National Guardsmen who is in Iraq. Mitchell is looking for a little help, supplies and labor in refurbishing the trailer. Jim Camden/SR tells the story here. (SR…
A whole lotta peein’s goin’ on in downtown Coeur d’Alene after hours. And, judging from the latest Downtown Bar Report, not all of that urine is finding its way into proper receptacles. In a recent 12-day period, CPD Blues arrested eight drunks for public urination,…
Dan Treecraft lived his life the way he wanted. He ended it that way, too. When diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2010, he decided against fighting the disease and began planning suicide. He shared his decision in a Spokesman-Review story published last summer. Early Thursday…
Duane Hagadone’s former Coeur d’Alene home on the hill will be sold at auction next month, if someone is ready to pay $7.5 million or more. That’s the starting price listed by J.P. King, a high-end auction house that calls the Sept. 8 auction “an…
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.
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