Betsy Russell reports: The bear cub with burned paws who was rescued from Idaho's Mustang Complex fire is not the only baby critter in that fix; fire crews rescued this baby bobcat, nicknamed “Chips,” from the Chips fire in California on Saturday. The tiny female…
Special thanks to Christa for posting last night's election reports while I was out Resorting with my husband. I'm glad to say Mr. H. enjoyed his first spa experience very much. In fact, I couldn't get him to leave! He further helped me in my…
North Idaho College greeted hundreds of students back with the annual Day of Welcome event Wednesday, Aug. 29. Students had an opportunity to check out clubs and activities on campus while eating barbecue and playing games. Pictured are students Megan Rae Morris (left) and Chris…
OLYMPIA – Washington state’s campaign finance watchdog said Tuesday that the state’s Catholic churches can’t collect donations from their parishioners for the campaign seeking to overturn the state’s gay marriage law. Last week, Yakima Bishop Joseph Tyson sent a letter to pastors in 41 parishes…
Boise Weekly reports: Officials in north-central Idaho, facing a nearly $500,000 deficit at a Lewiston juvenile detention center, are mulling the possibility of sending their juvenile offenders across the border to be housed in a Spokane-area facility. This morning's Lewiston Tribune reports that Nez Perce…
KREM reports: SPOKANE, Wash.-- Southwest Airlines will no longer run nonstop service from Spokane to Portland. This route will be cancelled starting in January 2013. Southwest Airlines said Wednesday that it has to put its planes where they are going to be more profitable, meaning…
In recent weeks, the 2,000th American soldier died in Afghanistan. And Michael Baumgartner used one expletive. Which do you know more about? Which subject has gotten the state senator and quixotic candidate for U.S. Senate more attention? As the GOP holds its convention in Tampa,…
The Humane Society of the United States and private citizens are offering a total $4,250 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people involved in a suspected dog-fighting ring in Spokane Valley. Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service employees were called earlier…
The city’s nominee for police chief is engaged to a woman he supervised in his previous job as public safety director in Indianapolis, a relationship that wouldn’t be allowed under Spokane city policies. Frank Straub confirmed his engagement to Amber Myers, the chief of Animal…
100 free concerts 54 food vendors = 255 menu items = 37,000,000 calories (I'm estimating here) 3 adult beverage gardens The best people watching of the year You know what time it is, Spokane! Click here for a list of menu items (Handy! But let's…
NASA scientists named the Curiosity touch-down area Bradbury Landing after writer Ray Bradbury, seen on screen, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Wednesday. Newser) – Ray Bradbury's criticism of the government got him investigated by the FBI in the 1960s as a…
RATHDRUM - Annual field burning on the Rathdrum Prairie got off to a smokey start on Tuesday afternoon, but state officials were confident evening winds would carry away lingering smoke. About 220 acres of Kentucky bluegrass in the area of Lancaster and Huetter roads were…
Penn State football fans will no longer be singing "Sweet Caroline" while cheering on their Nittany Lions, according to university officials. Neil Diamond's classic song, often sung at sporting events and particularly at Boston Red Sox baseball games, has been rotated out of the playlist…
Idaho Department of Fish and Game veterinarian Mark Drew bandages the paws of "Boo Boo," a bear cub that was found Sunday night by firefighters battling the Mustang Fire near Salmon, Idaho, at the Garden Valley U.S. Forest Ranger Station in Garden Valley, Idaho, Tuesday,…
Innkeeper John Hough, left, jokes with guests at breakfast last Thursday at the Roosevelt Inn in Coeur d'Alene. What happens when a couple of Idaho innkeepers invite a British chef named Gordon Ramsay to come stay a few nights at their hotel? All hell breaks…
Todd Conery, left, explains the uses of a vertical mill to his son, Grant, as they tour the engineering design and automation department at the Kootenai Technical Education Campus on Tuesday on the Rathdrum Prairie. Grant is enrolled in the program. Since she was in…
First this: Three people were injured in a head-on collision around 10 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. Highway 95 in Kootenai County. Jedidiah Heath, 22 , of Spokane, was driving a 1996 Toyota 4 Runner south on the highway near Garwood Road when he crossed the…
TAMPA, Fla. – Mitt Romney officially gained a historic presidential nomination Tuesday night, as Republicans tried to steer national attention toward their storm-shortened convention and a tight fall race against President Barack Obama. The former Massachusetts governor became the first Mormon to be nominated for…
After nearly three decades of talking and planning, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set to begin cleaning up mining waste in the upper Coeur d’Alene River Basin next year. The EPA on Tuesday released its final version of a $635 million, 30-year plan to…
A $32.7 million bond measure to renovate some of the oldest schools in the Coeur d’Alene School District was embraced by voters tonight. The measure, which requires a two-thirds supermajority to pass, received 71 percent yes votes. “I’m very, very excited that this looks like…
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.
