North Spokane’s Green Bluff swelled Sunday with apple lovers, pumpkin pickers and families out enjoying the sunny, slightly crisp fall weather during a traditional trip to the Apple Festival. With this year’s bountiful harvest and apple crop, the 36 farms that participate in the monthlong…
A Washington Post investigation of the wealth of members of Congress highlights Sen. Jim Risch as the 14th wealthiest member of Congress, while his GOP colleague, Rep. Raul Labrador, is 19th poorest. Such rankings aren't new and are based on the annual financial disclosure forms…
City Editor Addy Hatch of the SR tweets: "Two calls in about five minutes on our lack of celebration in print pages of Columbus Day. What were we thinking?" I know the banks have Columbus Day off. Dunno about the city of Coeur d'Alene and…
Southwestern Idaho Republicans celebrated the March 6 “Super Tuesday” presidential caucus in Ada County as the nation's biggest event of its kind, with some 9,000 people descending on Boise State University's Taco Bell Arena. “We're thrilled,” Ada County GOP Chairman Dwight Johnson said that night.…
Item: What to do with old Interstate 90/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press Mary Souza's has issue a call to arms in a newsletter to alert her readers that Coeur d'Alene is holding a workshop with the Idaho Transporation Department at 5 p.m. today in the…
World Wife Carrying Champions Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen, from Helsinki, Finland, enter the water hazard just moments before second place finishers Jesse Wall and Christine Arsenault of South Paris during the finals of the 2012 North American Wife Carrying Championship Saturday at Sunday River…
Geography teachers tend to put their students to sleep. And no wonder. Until you've been there, who cares where the Rhine River runs? Or what kind of winters they have in North Korea? Or which ocean is home to Iwo Jima? And what's an Iwo…
How much is that doggie park in the window? Around $67,000, actually. Undaunted by the sum, the Kootenai County Dog Park Association is optimistic it can have the funds secured in time to build a dog park at the base of Tubbs Hill at the…
Coeur d’Alene is still buzzing about that 5-0 vote by the new Coeur d’Alene School Board against the Primary Years Programme at Hayden Meadows School last Monday. Of interest were comments by board Chairman Tom Hamilton’s wife, Kate, about transferring their fifth-grade daughter from Hayden…
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.
