The Idaho Fish & Game Department has contacted the media to say that the grizzly killed by property owner Jeremy Hill was one of the two 2-year-old bear cubs and not the mother bear. The misinformation may have been the result of this line in…
Apparently, Senate Education Committee Chairman John Goedde is dismissing the overwhelming testimony against online education at 7 hearings around the state. Reports Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise: "He dismissed the negative testimony at the public hearings, saying, 'I don't know the makeup of the people that…
Otis G provides this feel-good photo & cutline information from the Spokane Valley: "Each year, the City of Spokane Valley Stormwater Utility hires some summer interns to do inventory on our storm drain systems. Last week, Tim Kincaid (who is a current student with the…
Idaho's courts are obligated to tolerate Rep. Phil Hart's insistence that it respect every single one of his due process rights before he pays his taxes. But the Athol Republican's constituents are free to judge Hart's actions now. As his latest legal maneuver makes clear,…
re: MikeK queries county clerk about voter registration "volunteers"/Hucks Online In an email to Coeur d'Alene Councilman Mike Kennedy that Huckleberries Online received moments ago, Deputy County Clerk Pat Raffee revealed the names of volunteers who culled voter registration rolls looking for unqualified voters: "Hello…
Correction: The Boundary County Sheriff's Department is now reporting that the grizzly shot by Jeremy Hill was one of the cubs, a 2-year-old silvertip, and not the mother grizzly. A North Idaho man deserves our respect for calling wildlife authorities after he shot a grizzly…
A Berry Picker provided this photo from the North Idaho Fair at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds opening day, featuring Raul Labrador either discussing a child's age -- or possibly term limits -- in front of the Republican tent at the fairgrounds. (If you get a…
Item: Without COLA, wages still went up: Cd'A employees got merit increases during tough economic times/Tom Hasslinger, CdA Press More Info: A records request shows that 58 percent of all city of Coeur d'Alene benefited employees were eligible to receive 5 percent merit pay increases…
re: Huckleberries hears Reagan Republicans selling "Corrupt d'Alene" bumperstickers Deanna Goodlander: Since the Reagan Republicans in their infinite wisdom choose to call my City, and by inference myself, Mayor and other Council members and City Staff, corrupt, I thought that I would look up the…
re: Scouts rally for Camp Easton/Alecia Warren, CdA Press re: Gozzer developer wants Boy Scouts Camp Easton I attended the meeting tonight. It was basically a sales pitch for Gozzer by the Council CEO, Tim McCandless. Everything about a new camp at a new site…
I've shaken most of the cobwebs off & am now planning to head to the North Idaho Fair this evening. Mebbe I'll see you out there. Please say hello. Meanwhile, I've shaken off some of my cobwebs from my recent two-week vacation. It's nice to…
Brooks Owens, 3, of Gilbert, Ariz., keeps cool playing in the water at the Splash Playground at Tempe Beach Park in Tempe, Ariz. Tuesday. (AP Photo/East Valley Tribune, Tim Hacker)
The Spokane office of the Boy Scouts of America is awaiting a formal offer from a North Idaho developer before considering whether to sell Camp Easton, a 380-acre camp it has operated on Lake Coeur d’Alene since 1929. Tim McCandless, the CEO of the Inland…
5:40 p.m. 13YO boy is bleeding from head after being hit by vehicle @ Honeysuckle & Chalet/Hayden. 5:27 p.m. Red pickup w/personalized plate almost caused several crashes before exiting I-90, n/b on Pleasantview (M/P 2)/Post Falls. 5:25 p.m. A dispute is arising out of unknown…
Kevin Hecket, right, holds the bridle of Dolly, one of three dromedary camels giving rides and chats with passersby at the North Idaho Fair Wednesday. The fair opened Wednesday and continues through Sunday. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley) Otter weighs in on grizzly bear shooting/Betsy Russell,…
Neighbors contacted the SPCA when they noticed a cow with her head firmly stuck in a ladder in a farmer's field in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The farmer does not know how the cow worked herself into the ladder or why the ladder was in his…
... That Larry Spencer is manning the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee booth at the North Idaho Fair as I write this. The Reagan Republicans have a booth directly across from the union folks. The Reagan Republicans are selling the Corrupt d'Alene bumperstickers.
In this Jan. 10, 2010, AP file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad during an event in San Francisco. Jobs announced his resignation as Apple CEO today. Story here. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Question: How has Steve Jobs impacted your life?
I have 9 tickets, worth $8 each, for free entry into the North Idaho Fair today. 2 individuals who'd asked for 2 tickets apiece gave them up when they discovered that the tickets are good for only today. So anyone who wants at least 2…
Regina and the Hill family, surrounded by all the people who bid on and resold Regina before raising $19,588 and then giving Regina back to Jasmine Hill, who raised her. (News Bonners Ferry photo: Mike Weland) In E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web,” Charlotte the spider extolled…
I'm way behind the curve re: Herb Huseland's vigil with Bayview hammer-attack victim Yvonne Wallis at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. Herb has been reporting in his Bay Views blog that a bureaucratic snafu involving Medicaid reimbursement has prevented Yvonne's release after surgery to fix metal…
A law-enforcement sniper aims at the window of a room Ernesto Bustamante rented at the University Inn-Best Western in Moscow on Tuesday. Bustamante was found dead in his motel room from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Bustamante is suspected of shooting and killing a 22-year-old…
Rebel fighters trample on a head of Moammar Gadhafi inside the main compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, LIbya, today. Libyan rebels stormed Moammar Gadhafi's main military compound in Tripoli Tuesday after fierce fighting with forces loyal to his regime that rocked the capital as…
Investigators from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office along with volunteers from the Kootenai County Search and Rescue have spent the past couple of days scouring the area near the Coeur d’Alene River, south of Rose Lake where human bones were found over the weekend. Investigators…
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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