I have good news for you fans of SR colleague Paul Turner's Slice column. Paul is going to try his hand at blogging. He has several entries in our system, as I type this, to begin publishing on Monday. I'll keep an eye on those…
Turkey Vultures perch on a tree in Haddam, Conn., Thursday. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
It will likely be many more years until all printed books are replaced by e-books. But perhaps in history “books” it will someday be noted that on May 19, 2011 Amazon.com Inc. announced that “after less than four years of selling electronic books, it’s now…
5:10 p.m. 1-car rollover reported on w/b I-90 @ M/P 4 (near Spokane/PF); someone bleeding inside. 5:08 p.m. Caller reports man going through vehicle after driver exited it at Huetter Port of Entry. 5:01 p.m. 3 men carrying a mattress back to a pickup are…
Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven, right, applauds as he asks mourners to imagine that former Twins' baseball player Harmon Killebrew just hit his 574th home run during the funeral service for Killebrew at the Christ Church of the Valley in Peoria, Ariz., Friday.…
Westbound I90 at the idaho/ Washington State line has been reduced to one lane of travel at mile post 298 due to construction on the Washington Port of Entry. This is causing severe traffic back ups in the area for several miles into Idaho. Motorists…
On her Facebook wall, Linda Lantzy/Idaho Scenic Images writes of this scenic from the Sagle area: "Reflections of a flowering tree in this partially flooded pasture near Sagle, got me to pull over, but I ended up liking this other view better. Tuesday evening." DFO:…
On her Facebook wall, incumbent Michelle Lippert offers this rallying cry for those who supported her successful defense of her Post Falls School Board seat versus a Reagan Republican candidate: "Let's get the referendums signed and send a message to Boise. Our children are not…
President Barack Obama has issued a major disaster declaration for Idaho and made federal funding available to counties with flooding damage. Earlier this month, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter requested more than $5 million in federal money for six northern Idaho counties to pay for fixing…
A body found in the Spokane River Thursday has been identified as a Coeur d’Alene tribal member missing since March. An autopsy by the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Leighton L. Welch, 35, drowned, the Spokane Police Department said today. His body was pulled…
JeanieSpokane: Enjoying *another* downright summer day - forget spring! We’ve been going to garage sales and estate sales all week. I’ve picked up little things for my small garden. They aren’t gnomes but I’m getting pretty darn close - I’m making a “Fairy” garden -…
Walt Disney Co. president and CEO Bob Iger, left, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, center, and Anthony Daniels, who portrayed C-3PO in the "Star Wars" films, are surrounded by "Star Wars" characters on Star Tours - The Adventures Continue, a new 3-D attraction in Disney's…
The first thing a newcomer to the “Wicked” phenomenon will notice is that this production has a great “eye” — a rich visual style, all gears, cogs, clock-faces and Emerald City glow. And then, as the story unfolds, you’ll find that “Wicked” also possesses —…
Angry hunters pressed the Idaho Fish and Game Commission Wednesday to act boldly and swiftly to reduce the state’s wolf population, currently at more than 700, down to the 150-wolf minimum allowed by law. “Collar 150 of them, keep track of them and kill every…
Is Dan Gookin tipping up to the lake's edge to dip his toe in the water, testing for another possible run at the Coeur d'Alene City Council. A comment DanG made on the Coeur d'Alene Press site seems to lean that way: "If I were…
Did you know there's a connection between the performance of "Wicked" in Spokane and a purse robbery in Missoula? According to the Missoulian, a girl had her purse stolen by two women at Muralt's Travel Plaza as she was traveling with the Anaconda High band…
Here's another shot by Rocky Castaneda of Lake City Photography -- of Lauren Elise Cosgrove, one of the contestants of Spokane's Top Model -- on Tubbs Hill. Rocky emails that Thursday's weather was perfect (how often have we been able to say that this spring)…
Noonish: Resident of Catherine Street/PF reports vandalism damage to trees. 11:30 a.m. Rite Aid (Prairie Shopping Center) worker reports house trash dumped in store bin. 11:09 a.m. Teen girl reportedly has taken 13 Aleves & other drugs in Hauser Lake area. 11:07 a.m. Cooler hold-up…
A preliminary report on supplemental levy elections in held in school districts around the state compiled by the Idaho State Department of Education shows that of 36 school districts holding supplemental levy votes on Tuesday, 27 won passage from local voters, while nine failed, including,…
Rapture Poll: 77 of 117 respondents (65.81%) said they don't believe that a Rapture (Evangelical belief that church will be removed from Earth prior to 2nd coming of Jesus Christ) will occur. 32 of 117 respondents (27.35%) believe it will occur. And 8 (6.84%) were…
In August 2006, Republican legislators and then-Gov. Jim Risch would have had you believe they’d rendered the school property tax all but obsolete. They had, after all, shifted some $260 million in school funding obligations away from the universally unpopular property tax — figuring to…
Randy "Macho Man" Savage "chokes" former NBA star Dennis Rodman during a clash in the WCW Road Wild Wrestling Event at the 1999 Sturgis Rally & Races in Sturgis, S.D. Savage died after having a heart attack while driving his Jeep Wrangler (this morning), Fox…
Item: Government workers now make more than private-sector workers in Idaho/Anne Alice Allen, Idaho Business Review More Info: If you work for the government in Idaho, chances are you’re now making more than your private-sector counterpart. Government wages passed private-sector wages this year. Statistics from…
A California man predicting Saturday will be the end of the world is spreading his controversial message across the country including right here in the Inland Northwest. Harold Camping is a retired civil engineer and runs of one of the largest Christian radio networks in…
Originally posted at 8:25 p.m. Thursday Opponents to Idaho’s new education laws have two-thirds of the required signatures they need to put those reforms up to a public vote next fall. The Idaho secretary of state’s office reports that all three referendum efforts have more…
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.
