Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, pictured, has written a letter to Coeur d'Alene City Clerk Susan Weathers & Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes, confirming that Weathers is right regarding the June 19 deadline to collect & certify recall petitions. The 75-day deadline includes the time…
Republican Mike Jorgenson, pictured, today signed the “Republican Principle Pledge," an integrity pledge to the people of Legislative District 2. He has called upon his fellow candidates to join as co-sponsors. The petition calls for a return to the basic Republican values Idahoans had previously…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and Coeur d'Alene recall leader Mary Souza chat during the Unity Dinner, sponsored by the Post Falls Pachyderm Club, Monday night. Otter was the guest speaker at the event, which was designed to bring warring factions of the Kootenai County Republican…
11:56 p.m. 3 males in green Subura Outback tried to steal a canoe from unknown Lake CdA location. 11:41 p.m. New Visions Alternative principal wants officer to make arrest student caught w/drug pipe. 11:39 a.m. Suspicious person reported @ Tree Top Apartments, 4598 Fairway/CdA. 11:26…
After decades of “hard livin’ ” – football and baseball as a young man, 23 years as a Marine pilot, serving in the Vietnam War – Bill Nichols suffers from chronic back pain. But if it weren’t for yoga, the Liberty Lake resident said, he’d…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter laughs during roundtable with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead during a roundtable discussion at the Governor's Mansion in Salt Lake City Friday. Seeking a unified front on common concerns, the governors of four Western states held discussions…
Monday Poll: A supermajority of Hucks Nation believes state Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, will lose his GOPrimary race against three opponents. 117 of 174 respondents (67.24%) say Hart will be defeated in the local Republican primary. 43 of 174 respondents (24.71%) say Hart will survive…
RecallCDA organizer Frank Orzell acknowledged Monday that the recall effort has started paying people to carry petitions door to door. He said they've contracted a few people in the last couple of days due in part to the timeline dispute that may have moved the…
Facebook Friend Robin Loznak, a superb wildlife photographer from Roseberg, Ore. (via Great Falls Tribune in Montana) posted this collage with the statement: "I thought I taw a putty cat! The bird won this round." You can see more of Robin's photos on his Facebook…
The city of Coeur d’Alene could break ground on the McEuen Field redevelopment project before the recall effort is settled. In fact, dirt could begin turning by late summer. The first part of the project would install the boat trailer parking lot on the east…
For 31 seasons, the Idaho Vandals football team called the Big Sky home. The results were mostly positive, especially near the end, when the Vandals claimed five titles and four runner-ups in an 11-year span before making the jump to the Football Bowl Subdivision. Now,…
It’s one of the ironies in modern society. Opera was designed for the masses, once considered unrefined and not good enough for society’s upper class. Yet today opera is seen — generally by those who haven’t experienced it — as stuffy. Cultured, hoity-toity, and boring.…
The Idaho Press Tribune is urging almost everyone to vote Republican May 15, to get around the attempt by Idaho Republicans to limit voting by suing to close their primary: "If you aren’t registered yet, here’s what we recommend: If you’re a Democrat, vote Republican!…
Fans of Volkswagen Beetles gather in Hannover, northern Germany today. Around 3,000 VW Beetles from all over Europe traveled to this year's meeting. (AP Photo/dapd, Focke Strangmann) Question: Did you ever own a Volkswagen Beetle? Did you like it?
On Twitter, a media outlet called Romenesko tweets: "You know you're getting old when one of your Twitter followers asks, "Who the hell is Barbara Walters?" Complete this sentence: You know you're getting old when ...
Occupy Boise is expected to join likeminded protesters from around the country in organizing May Day rallies and events to honor the working class. Organizers are encouraging the supporters to skip out on work, class and other obligations Tuesday to show solidarity with laborers and…
Facebook is about "connecting and sharing" - especially now it can help you donate your internal organs, Mark Zuckerberg announced today. Describing it as "a life-saving initiative", the tousle-haired CEO officially announced a special button for people wanting to tell their friends that they are…
Unwilling to concede defeat, Virginia Hemingway and volunteers worked through the weekend and on Monday to gather signatures for a ballot initiative to ask voters for tougher penalties in Idaho’s law. State lawmakers passed the state’s first felony animal cruelty law this year, but many…
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.
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