Thursday Poll: On a narrow vow, Hucks Nation supported giving the Idaho media full access to the execution process. 53 of 104 respondents (50.96%) said the media should have full access to executions, not just the final steps when the condemned is in the execution…
Executions are not easy task for the media. But it's our responsibility and we take it seriously. Our own reporter, Idaho Press-Tribune's Nate Green, was one of the witnesses. We'll have stories online a bit later. We also had photographer Charlie Litchfield and reporter John…
Entering a season of charitable giving, a story a few days ago on NBC News caught my eye. It was about a woman named Mary Donnelly, an 83-year-old nurse who "cares for her neighbors the way people used to in this country," said news anchor…
Kerri Thoreson and talented Coeur d'Alene High QB Chad Chalich, who is wrapping up a successful career for the Viks met at KVNI HQ recently. Standing in the way of Coeur d’Alene High and a second straight state 5A football championship tonight is a team…
Idaho prison officials executed Paul Ezra Rhoades on Friday for his role in the 1987 murders of two women, marking the state's first execution in 17 years. Rhoades, 54, was declared dead at 9:15 a.m. at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution after being administered three…
Alaska’s second-largest city is used to cold weather, but few residents expected record-breaking cold this early in the season. Shawn Ross has lived in Fairbanks his entire life and says few people were prepared for this severe of a cold snap in mid-November. The Fairbanks…
House says no to balanced budget amendment 261-165/AP The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is scheduled to vote (today) on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution -- a key component of GOP leaders' plan to end the federal government's spiraling deficit spending. The vote on…
Ian Thomson, of Boise, Idaho, protests against the execution of Paul Ezra Rhoades at Idaho's Maximum Security Institution in Boise this morning. Rhoades was executed at 9:15 a.m. for killing 21-year-old Stacy Dawn Baldwin and 34-year-old Susan Michelbacher nearly a quarter-century ago. See story below.…
State Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, speaks to the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans at noon Thursday at Fedora about nullification. He will present the same message today to the Panhandle Pachyderm Club in Post Falls. Nullification is an attempt to state-rightists like Barbieri to allow…
Steve Adams looks you in the eye when you're speaking, smiles often - even if you're disagreeing - and never seems to raise his voice. He's even apologetic when the phone rings inside the Allstate insurance agency he bought from his father in 2000. His…
Regis Philbin is getting emotional. But then, so is his loyal, long-watching TV audience. Today marked Reeg's finale as the self-referential coffee-klatsch mainstay on Live With Regis and Kelly as he signed off at the undeniably amazing age of 80 after 28 years as the…
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.
