The New York Times last weekend posted a map showing which parts of the country are overall at higher or lower risk of disasters, and the Northwest is much the lowest. The safest metro area in the country, it turns out, is Corvallis. And of…
Item: Oregon's largest health insurer seeks 22 percent rate increase/Joe Rojas-Burke, Oregonian More Info: Oregon's largest health insurer, Regence BlueCross BlueShield, wants to raise premiums by more than 22 percent for 59,000 customers with individual coverage. In response to the eye-popping rate request, state insurance…
DeRoy Bassett, owner of Buy-Rite Auto Salvage, poses for a picture outside his business on Monday in Nampa. Not long after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 Bassett posted the message: "Bin Laden - You're Next" on the marquee outside his business. The sign remained…
News release announcing opening of Silverwood this coming weekend: "It’s time again, time for Silverwood to open its gate to all those happy fun seekers. And, as a park that has always been all about family fun what better weekend than Mother’s Day weekend. This…
A Berry Picker encountered this closure on 15th Street, just north of Best, a few minutes ago. Noonish: A disorderly male is causing trouble in 1500 block of Sherman/CdA. 11:25 a.m. A male caller has information re: recent metal thefts in the area. 11:27 a.m.…
US Senator Jon Tester is now hated, it appears, by many of the Dem's who helped launch him into the US Senate. They are calling him a "sell out" because he will not follow the President and his party like a blind man. He's a…
The killing of Osama bin Laden will reshape the Obama administration's ongoing fight against al-Qaida and other terror groups by ridding the United States of its primary battlefield target. But it could have an even bigger impact on public support for the Afghan war itself,…
Almost everybody is a collector of something, but few ever took the idea to the extreme level of the late great Walt Almquist, whose jaw-dropping collections of nearly everything you can think of are displayed in the dusty glass cases that make up the Sprag…
A photo taken by a local resident shows the wreckage of a helicopter next to the wall of the compound where, according to officials, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2. Bin…
Monday Poll: A majority of Hucks Nation disagrees with President Barack Obama's contention that the world is safer now that the U.S. has killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. 112 of 223 respondents (50.22%) disagree with Obama. 90 of 223 respondents (40.36%) agree that the…
I was quoted in this National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) blog post about the things our mothers taught us. In my case, she insisted I learn to type. My mother's reasoning was that every woman needed a business skill to rely on. Not…
People rally to condemn the killing of Osama bin Laden in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday. Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil) Question:…
So we’ve got Osama bin Laden, but do we really need to be out in the streets celebrating it? I understand he’s responsible for thousands of deaths, but it seems morbid to be celebrating a death like New Year’s Eve -- Loren, UI Argonaut, Off…
It was a 2nd place finish in a race most Inland Northwesterners wanted to avoid. Spokane was just one degree away from clinching the record for the coldest April in history. The average high temperature for April 2011 was 41.5 degrees, which is 5 degrees…
In an announcement Tuesday morning, the Andrus Center for Public Policy said the new blog will feature three contributors: Marc Johnson, a former TV reporter and spokesman and chief of staff for Gov. Cecil Andrus.. Chris Carlson, who directed the U.S. Department of Interior's Office…
VFW Auxillary Post 992 member Martha Logan glances back through the back window of her bright yellow 1931 Model A Ford in Walla Walla, Wash, as she looks for her husband, driver and 85-year-old WW II veteran Buzz Logan on Monday. The Logans were waiting…
For those keeping score at home, 60 percent of the respondents to a current Lewiston Tribune poll support a referendum to overturn the public education "reforms" pushed through the Idaho Legislature by Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna and Gov. Butch Otter, as well as a…
During his visit to Huckleberries Central on Friday, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch mentions that he listens to National Public Radio, as do most of the cabbies in Washington, D.C. "You can't get into a cab anywhere in town without listening to public radio," the senator…
Silver prices are flirting with $50 per ounce for the first time in decades. In North Idaho, that inevitably brings back memories of Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother William Herbert Hunt – two Dallas billionaires who tried to corner the silver market. The brothers…
Item: U.S. says images, DNA prove bin Laden’s dead/Associated Press More Info: Was it really him? How do we know? Where are the pictures? Already, those questions are spreading in Pakistan and surely beyond. In the absence of photos and with his body given up…
The world's a better place today, now that the murderer of thousands has met justice at American hands. And Prince William and Kate are married. And the sun is expected to shine sometime this week. It's all good as we start another week at Huckleberries…
"Sometimes plans for stories in the newspaper fall through at the last minute and it’s up to the photo department to save the day with a stand alone feature photo," posts Colin Mulvany, Snaps & Frames. "Three staff shooters grabbed gear and rushed out the…
Children who regularly sit down with their families to eat tend to enjoy better health, have a considerably lower risk of becoming obese, and develop healthy eating habits, researchers from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign revealed in the journal Pediatrics. Regularly means at least three…
5:36 p.m. Rathdrum woman reports she's found some evidence of possible molestation. 5:31 p.m. Owner in 2300 block of Meyer/Rathdrum reports neighbor knows who stole his fence panels. 5:17 p.m. Caller from 1600 block of Windermere/CdA reports a runaway juvenile. 4:59 p.m. A vehicle has…
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.