On her Facebook wall, Cindy posts: "Prayers needed for my friend Jeanie Buchanan. She's having open-heart surgery tomorrow morning. Huckleberries Online friends will recall she had both kidneys removed this summer and is hoping for a transplant soon. She's had an infection in her heart…
An Idaho grandfather and former school district superintendent is suing the state of Idaho and all its school districts, charging that cash-strapped schools are violating the Idaho Constitution by increasingly charging fees for what are supposed to be “free, common schools.” Russ Joki's twin kindergartner…
His is a story familiar to us by now, one that’s been fictionalized (loosely) and retold in a National Book Award-winning best seller. A boy is born on an Indian reservation in Eastern Washington and not expected to live. He does, only to chafe at…
With athletic director Rob Spear still trying to piece together 12 games for next year, Akey acknowledged the uncertainty is having a “tremendous impact on our recruiting, our planning for the future, on everything.” The instability has most clearly manifested itself in recruiting. Akey said…
Doctor shortages are a problem in many states. But there are a number of reasons why Idaho’s problem is worse than others. For one thing, Idaho doesn’t have its own medical school. Then there are obstacles all rural states face: Difficulty attracting doctors to places…
Jeff Ward of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans and Coeur d'Alene Councilman Dan Gookin appear to be enjoying a joke during the campaign event staged on behalf of state Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d'Alene, at the Blackwell House last week. (Duane Rasmussen photo special for…
11:49 a.m. Loose dog running in area of 4485 Woodland Drive/PF. 11:35 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Sept. 30-Oct. 1 here. 11:26 a.m. Silver Toyota Camri going w/b on e/b I-90 before turning off wrong way onto NW Blvd. 11:18 a.m. Sandpoint…
I've learned long ago on this blog that few readers here are 100 percent partisan. Even the most conservative have an undercurrent or two that could be considered liberal. And vice versa. Many of us here agree on most things despite our political filter. More…
Weekend Poll: 57 percent of Hucks Nation sez Idaho's $7.25-per-hour minimum wage is more out of line than Washington's $9.09-per-hour minimum wage. 105 of 184 respondents (57.07%) said Idaho's low minimum wage is more out of line than Washington's high minimum wage. 45 of 184…
Coeur d'Alene Press editorial Sunday re: this afternoon's Coeur d'Alene School Board meeting re: the Primary Years Programme at Hayden Meadows: It is hard to imagine that board members will vote to keep the program intact and move on to other issues. There is some…
North Idaho College Trustees Judy Meyer (pictured) and Mic Armon have won the endorsement of a group of prominent former NIC instructors with 337 years of collective experience, including Tony Stewart, Virginia Johnson and Rolly Williams. In a letter to the local media, the 10…
Traffic moves along the onramp of the $106 million Sand Creek Byway last week. New traffic volume counts obtained from the Idaho Transportation Department show that about 8,500 daily vehicles mid-week and 9,600 on Friday are using the two-mile shortcut around downtown Sandpoint. That includes…
Troy Warzocha, the UI Vandals beat writer, is having second thoughts re: Idaho giving up the fight to remain in college football's top division & joining Eastern Washington and Montana in the Big Sky Conference: " ... there's no reason the Vandals should waste their…
Corey Michael Dalton Lies on a cot in a window at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis Sunday. Dalton is living in the window, sleeping on a cot at the library behind a wall of books that have been banned at one time or…
Here's something I'll bet you didn't know. More than 70 percent of all U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan have been suffered since President Barack Obama took office. But when was the last time that you heard a somber-faced evening news anchor memorialize a "grim milestone?"…
Karen Cronin was sitting in her front room across the street from Underhill Park when she witnessed her 5-year-old grandson being struck by another child wielding a stick. Another time, she watched an ambulance haul away a boy who had been attacked at the park…
Five weeks before Election Day and two days before the first presidential debate, a set of new polls shows that President Obama has a slight two-point edge over Mitt Romney nationally. While both campaigns have tried to lower expectations for their respective candidate's debate performance,…
Usually before a presidential election, Eve Knudtsen said, business "gets weird." As in customers are more hesitant to make big purchases, the owner of Knudtsen Chevrolet observed. "Just anticipation in seeing how things may change after the election," Knudtsen said. "I usually look for some…
The ballot looks very different in North Idaho's most-Republican legislative district this fall, now that tax-protesting four-term Rep. Phil Hart is out and an array of new candidates are jostling for attention. Democrats are challenging Republicans for all three of District 2's seats this fall…
Crime scene investigators work the scene of a shooting at between 11th and 13th Avenues in Coeur d'Alene Saturday. A man shot another man around 11 a.m. in downtown Coeur d'Alene then led police on a chase that ended near Higgins Point where police shot…
The Coeur d'Alene City Council open house meeting regarding the Idaho Department of Transportation's offer to give the city roughly 5 miles of Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive and $3 million will be 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8 in the Community Room of the Coeur d'Alene…
A public relations company tied closely to a Kootenai County Republican organization was paid $86,000 by eight candidates involved in the local 2012 GOP primary – five of whom won. Ron Lahr, of Post Falls, who is president of both the Strategery Group and 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.
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