North Idaho College wrestlers have returned as national co-champions after a solid weekend in Des Moines. Anne Hathaway won best supporting actress for her terrific portrayal of "Fantine" in "Les Miserables." The roads are starting to thaw -- and the slideoffs and crashes are diminishing…
Fans seek autographs through a fence during an exhibition spring training baseball game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Seattle Mariners today in Peoria, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Spudbob: I am just ordering a book written by Galileo and it got me to thinking about books written before 1750 that I have read. Here is what I came up with off the top of my head. There may be a couple more: The…
He lists Iran, Iraq, India and more than two dozen other nations among the places he’s worked. H. Lee Schatz’ 31 years with the Foreign Agricultural Service shows the University of Idaho agricultural economics graduate is brave, resourceful and committed to making the world a…
Walkabout snapped this photo of two bald eagles hanging in an osprey nest across the Spokane River from the Dike Road adjacent to North Idaho College. Cascade mayor to resign/KTVB Just try to take our guns/Alecia Warren, Press Warehouse Sports to close/Nils Rosdahl, Press Whitworth…
5:29 p.m. Unknown medical emergency at Guardian Angel Homes, 1050 E. Mullan/PF. 5:19 p.m. Computers at county 911 system are down. 4:45 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Feb. 24-25 here. 4:36 p.m. A disabled truck on a blind corner on w/b I-90/MP…
"The Idaho Burger is back by popular demand but only in Japan," posts Stebbijo/Stebbijo's Place. "This burger "features a quarter-pound beef patty, melted cheese, a deep-fried hash brown, strips of bacon, onions and pepper-and-mustard sauce." The calorie count is 713. Something is wrong, you think?"…
Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise reports that 2 North Idaho senators -- Steve Vick, R- Dalton Gardens, and Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood -- were behind a failed minority move that would have cost the state federal Medicaid dollars: Sen. Steven Thayn, R-Emmett, led a move to cut…
Kootenai Medical Center says its workers are being violently assaulted more and more frequently - to the point that it wants to make any attack on a health care worker in Idaho a felony. “We’ve seen an increasing number of individuals who come in through…
John Cross of Post Falls, to the left of emcee Bruce Maddox of Rathdrum, denounces the stand taken by state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d'Alene, in favor of the governor's state-run health exchange during the legislative forum at the Coeur d'Alene Library Saturday. Cross is…
In the Lake City Development Corporation minutes from meeting last week, is this discussion re: alternative parking during McEuen Field/Front Avenue reconstruction this summer: "Parking Committee Chair Jim Elder shared that planning efforts are underway to develop temporary parking solutions for the upcoming 2013 McEuen…
As you may recall, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, was declared the most conservative U.S. senator by the National Review, which asked: "Who's he?" Risch explained his relative invisibility in U.S. Senate by saying he's not much of a publicity seeker. Seems he's gotten over…
Jon Heder, left, and Efren Ramirez are seen in this scene from the film "Napoleon Dynamite." Many people think of someone like Napoleon Dynamite when they think of Idaho residents (if they think of us at all). However, Buzzfeed lists 45 reasons why Idaho might…
“ The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.” Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.” So now, Jonah has received a lesson in How Things Are. He is 19 months old. Sitting on his mother’s lap on a recent Delta Airlines flight…
Idaho Democratic activists chose Larry Kenck of Post Falls as Chairman of the Idaho Democratic Party. Kenck replaces Larry Grant, who stepped down after two years in the position. The vote came on Saturday during the activist events surrounding the Frank and Bethine Church Gala…
Idaho law enforcement officers who help the federal government confiscate newly-banned firearms or ammunition would be guilty of a crime. That's according to a measure introduced Monday in the House State Affairs Committee seeking to interfere with attempts by President Obama and Congress to ban…
Here’s how Idaho senators voted on SJM 101, the memorial to Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice calling for the federal government to enforce federal drug laws in all states – including those that have voted to legalize or decriminalize marijuana. The measure was…
The Kootenai County Republican Party has issued its flyer for the annual Lincoln Day Dinner on March 8. The main speakers are former House Speaker Lawerence Denney, who will deliver the keynote address, and former Bonner County Commissioner Cornel Rasor, who will discuss 2nd Amendment…
11:48 a.m. Driver of red pickup w/Kootenai plates possibly DUI e/b on Canfield from H95, CdA. 11:26 a.m. Someone is suffering chest pain at St. Vinny's, 201 E. Harrison, CdA. 11:13 a.m. Ambulance en route to Kootenai Medical w/patient suffering acute appendicitis. 11:07 a.m. A…
Weekend Poll: A near supermajority of Hucks Nation says the Idaho House will follow suit with the Senate and approve Gov. Butch Otter's state-operated health insurance exchange. 96 of 147 respondents (65.31%) took that position. Only 40 of 147 respondents (27.21%) predicted the House would…
Gonzaga forward Kelly Olynyk pulls down a rebound against San Diego during the first half of their men's basketball game on Saturday in the McCarthey Athletic Center. Gonzaga defeated San Diego 81-50 and has risen to No. 2 in the nation in the latest polls.…
A Sunday editorial in the Coeur d'Alene Press begins: From notorious to just plain nutty, Idaho keeps cranking out more than its fair of undesirable headline-makers. You start with Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations and you think there's nowhere to go but up, right?…
After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern…
Carol Goodman, in blue coat, holds up a sign Saturday telling legislators during a town hall meeting Saturday she doesn't support a state health insurance exchange in Idaho. Bonner County Tea Party leader Pam Stout, in the gray coat, holds up the same sign. Coeur…
After the formal presentation by legislators at the Saturday forum, appointed Trustee Brent Regan, left, of the Coeur d'Alene School Board engages in an intense discussion with state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d'Alene, right. Regan opposes the state exchange proposed by Gov. Butch Otter and…
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.
