For those keeping score at home, a federal judge has allowed a wolf- and coyote-shooting derby to proceed in central Idaho this weekend. The Gonzaga Bulldogs will open another West Coast Conference season with a home game against Santa Clara tonight. And this posted Wild…
After a wedding photo shoot in front of the Salt Lake Temple, groom Evan Call carries his bride Samantha to help keep her dress from getting muddy. "Her feet were freezing too," said Call as the newlyweds heading back the temple to join their wedding…
Huckleberries Online is closing in on 2.4 million page-views for the year, which isn't bad, after Disqus knocked the blog sideways in spring. At that time, I thought the blog would be lucky to post 2.2 million page-views for the year. The interesting fall elections…
I've noticed that most media coverage of Red Lobster's woes as Darden Restaurants seeks to divest itself of the ailing chain avoids the elephant in the room: Red Lobster serves bad food. There's maybe an anti-snob thing going on where fancy-pants coastal journalists and activist…
Time 2 Vote ... Evan Straske, 11, of Huntington Woods, Mich., takes flight after hitting a mound while sledding down a hill at Martin Road Park in Ferndale, Mich., on Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Elizabeth Conley) Thursday Winner -- Photoguy, with…
5:05 p.m. Allergic reaction reported @ 6500 block of Cornwall Street/CdA. 4:56 p.m. Responders en route to 5300 block of Hayden Court after fielding fire, panic & carbon monoxide alarms. 4:38 p.m. 4YO girl hurt back in a fall in play area @ McDonalds restaurant,…
The National Security Agency's collection of data about most calls made in the U.S. is legal, a federal judge ruled, dismissing a significant court challenge and setting the stage for a bigger legal battle over secret surveillance programs. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III…
No doubt about it, it can be harder to motivate yourself to work out when the weather outside turns frightful. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still make it happen (writes Jon Bell of Actively Northwest in an article titled, "4 easy ways to burn…
While you were settling down for a long winter's nap, Coeur d'Alene city workers were fixing a broken water line on Sherman Avenue. A broken one-inch water line on the 1300 block of Sherman Avenue kept city water staffers busy into Christmas Eve as they…
Idaho Senate Majority Caucus Chairman Russ Fulcher is asking supporters to make his challenge to GOP Gov. Butch Otter look like a serious threat come late January. Fulcher, R-Meridian, wrote supporters Friday, saying his year-end Sunshine Report “will be an important indicator of the level…
I guess New Year's resolutions aren't so bad after all. So here are two more, again, personal and professional: First, keep the weight off. Boring, but let's not argue with success. I feel better having lost the pounds, and I don't know, I think I…
You know the “missed connections” section of Craigslist where people write about fleeting glances, eyes meeting across the room, love-at-first-sight magic? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, most “missed connections” posts are along the lines of, “I saw you at such-and-such place, and…
Camp Chevrolet car salesman Slater Kuykendall brushes off a line of Chevy Cruze cars as snow falls in early November in Spokane. Despite that snowfall, this has been one of the driest winters for the Spokane area, according to weather experts. (SR file photo) The…
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Phil Robertson, the patriarch of A&E's Duck Dynasty clan who was suspended from his hit reality series on Dec. 18 following some incendiary comments about gay people, won't be put on hiatus after all. The network and the Robertson family announced Friday that Phil will…
On Facebook, Dave Chamberlain offers his musings over local politics for the past year: An interesting year in Politics. The quick rise, of the tea party tactics in the Congress and the major damage it did to the Republican party and will cause the American…
New York City artist Neil Freeman is selling for $35 his poster that equalizes the populations of the 50 states as a proposed Electoral College reform. Freeman puts Idaho in a new state of Salt Lake, along with eastern portions of Oregon and Washington, northern…
The New Year's Eve Ball is photographed on the roof of One Times Square in New New York during a media event where several of the Waterford Crystal triangles were installed on the ball on Friday. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) DFO: Mrs. O & I and…
12:14 p.m. Someone is suffering chest pain @ 15400 block of Pristine Circle/Rathdrum. 12:06 p.m. 82YO female suffered leg injury in fall @Kelso Lake Road/Athol area. 11:57 a.m. Patrol officer requests dog after traffic stop but sheriff's deputy using canine unit elsewhere. 11:30 a.m. Coeur…
I first read James Thurber in high school. Even at that age, I enjoyed the dry wit on display in his stories, especially in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” And I was prepared for the changes that Hollywood would make in adapting that story…
It all begins sometime mid-summer. The decorations and lights begin to appear in the stores and you think, oh, please! The intensity builds for months. Once it had been merely weeks but no more. By the time Christmas day actually arrives it's almost anticlimactic. Yet…
On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson posts: "Frosty berries in our yard ... don't mind the cold as long as there are blue skies!" I second that emotion. A Bone to pick/Right Argument How many gifts to give?/End Notes Awesome Twitter accounts/Tech Deck Friday morning…
A Northern Hawk Owl eats a rodent it caught on the banks of Paradise Creek in Moscow, Idaho. The owl, which is native to Canada, has been in Moscow for about three weeks. Because the owl is rarely seen so far south, birders from the…
Thursday Poll: A solid majority of Hucks Nation considered 2013 to be a good year for them. 75 of 128 respondents (58.59%) voted that 2013 was a good year. 30 of 128 respondents (23.44%) said 2013 was a "so-so" year. Only 18 of 128 respondents…
After a phone hearing Friday morning, a federal judge is considering the fate of a disputed coyote and wolf derby planned for this weekend in central Idaho. In Friday's 9:30 a.m. hearing, an attorney for WildEarth Guardians told U.S. District Magistrate Judge Candy Dale she…
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.
