Chasing a rebound, Gonzaga center Robert Sacre (00) parts the way between Air Force guard Taylor Stewart (15) and center Taylor Broekhuis (34) during the first half of their NCAA college basketball game Thursday in the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane. Jim Meehan's SR story…
I am SOOOOOOO happy that this is the shortest day of the year, because yesterday felt like the longest! I didn't get home until 6:30 and was so tired I couldn't even untie my shoes. But my husband had dinner ready and poured me a…
White House Christmas card for 2011 features Bo the dog. Did you send out Christmas cards this year?
SEATTLE – The Washington state ferry service isn’t going to start turning away hefty passengers, but it has had to reduce the capacity of the nation’s largest ferry system because people have been packing on the pounds. Coast Guard vessel stability rules that took effect…
WASHINGTON — Their isolation complete, House Republican leaders abruptly caved and agreed to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a two-month extension of tax cuts for all workers. The agreement, struck after some of the staunchest House conservatives began to…
There are several books available at Auntie’s Bookstore to explain the belief that the world will end in 2012, at least according to the ancient Mayans. You are held captive in the airplane seat and so the seatback magazines beckon. Page through SkyMall, or any…
Milo and Thor peek over the edge of our bed. You didn't think I'd forget to post a cat pic, did you? Do you let your pets sleep on your bed?
SEATTLE – A new look at test scores by Seattle Public Schools shows American-born black students lag behind black immigrants in academic achievement. African-American students, whose primary language is English, perform significantly worse in math and reading than black students who speak another language at…
Thirty-six years after Donna Claver lost her engagement ring, Terry Claver recovered it from a broken toilet. STANFORD, Mont. – Terry and Donna Claver have the type of marriage that newlyweds imagine for themselves one day. After nearly four decades together, the Clavers’ love and…
Coeur d'Alene police are trying to identify a woman suspected of stealing Botox treatments from a dermatology office. The woman had $1,705 worth of Botox and Juvederm procedures done on Dec. 6 at North Idaho Dermatology, 2288 North Merrit Creek Loop. She began writing a…
World War II veterans Wilson and Connie Conaway celebrate their return from a recent Inland Northwest Honor Flight. Their 64th wedding anniversary is near. Wilson Conaway didn’t care for high school in Youngstown, Ohio. “It was 1942,” he recalled. “The war was on. There were…
A passenger walks past a sign informing travelers about the use of full-body scanners for TSA security screening. It was the end of a four-hour congressional hearing, and Florida Rep. John Mica was fuming at Transportation Security Administration officials. The TSA had begun deploying hundreds…
If you are just proactive and think outside the box, we can run this mission-critical project, bringing to the table the high-level learnings and actionable items we plucked like low hanging fruit after the elevator pitch that dictated our next steps. OK, that hurt to…
A Nativity Scene erected by Hunter Abell of Bothell, Wash., sits on the Washington State Capitol Campus about a half block from a sign put up by atheists. Both are scheduled to be up through Christmas. OLYMPIA – Washington state officials granted permits for three…
Officials at Hecla Mining Co. say they will tunnel a 750-foot bypass at the Lucky Friday Mine to route workers away from a portion of the mile-long corridor where a rock burst injured seven miners last week. Another rock burst had occurred in the same…
On his Bayviews blog Herb writes: For the last several years, and timed with Dan English as County Clerk. the precincts have been much more convenient. In the case of Bayview, Idaho, we had to drive nine miles to vote. Our polling place was the…
NEW YORK – Even before the Army sent him to Afghanistan, supporters say, Pvt. Daniel Chen was fighting a personal war. Fellow soldiers at a base in Georgia teased him about his Chinese name, crying out “Chen!” in an exaggerated Asian accent. They called him…
Relying on his conservative views and nearly four decades in real estate, Ed Morse is confident he can bring North Idaho more jobs and hold lawmakers more accountable. The Hayden Republican and real estate appraiser is running for seat 2b in the newly created second…
Ted Wiley has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Spokane Camera Club. Long before computers and Photoshop, and decades before digital technology, Ted Wiley took pictures. He developed the film in his own darkroom, creating birth announcements and fun family Christmas cards.…
LIBBY, Mont. – Officials in northwestern Montana say a shot fired at a grizzly bear as it attacked a Nevada hunter passed through the bear before striking and killing the hunter. The Western News reported Wednesday that tests requested by the Department of the Interior…
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her partner, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask,…
Gonzaga center Robert Sacre, left, strips the ball from Butler guard Jackson Aldridge as guard David Stockton (11) moves in during the second half of Tuesday night’s game in Spokane. So yeah, GU stomped Butler Tuesday night. But the real story is where the Butler…
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.
