Another wild day at Huckleberries Online ends, with some technical difficulties experienced along the way -- and a whole lotta blog posts on both sides. We're beginning to enter the final phase of municipal election 2013, which has left many of you with raw nerves.…
Mike Rader pours the first flight of cabernet sauvignon earlier today as judging began for Wine Press Northwest's 14th annual Platinum Judging at Clover Island Inn in Kennewick, Wash. More than 600 wines from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia are judged over three days.…
Those who know me, know that I don't plan on being buried in a cemetery... that I will be cremated and blown to the wind.I have gone to the cemetery and put the flowers on the grave, like most. Usually the King and I do…
6:13 p.m. Drunk female is yelling/screaming at Hayden tavern on Government Way. 6:01 p.m. Caller reports smoke, unknown source, in 1300 block of E. Mullan/Post Falls. 5:47 p.m. Caller reports another driver drove slowly through CdA on H95 & then may have pointed gun at…
Photographer Don Sausser didn't provide info re: these girls playing in leaves in a Coeur d'Alene yard. But it doesn't need much of an explanation. Do you recall playing in leaves when you were young? Construction tools stolen from Kroc Center/Press Kootenai County P&Z to…
Time 2 Vote ... An Indonesian youth walks on the back of a beached whale shark as fishermen prepare to pull it back to the sea at Kenjeran beach in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Tuesday. The whale survived and successfully released back into the sea.…
At the Coeur d'Alene Press Online site today, the poll question asks readers which political action committee do they trust more -- Balance North Idaho or Kootenai County Reagan Republicans. There's also an option for "neither." Click here.
An Idaho State Trooper was justified in shooting a Montana motorist who grabbed a gun during a police check along Interstate 90 at Lookout Pass in June, Shoshone County Prosecuting Attorney Keisha Oxendine said today. Alexander L. Mandarino, 26, of Whitefish, Mont., died from a…
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office recently located over 200 pieces of mail, belonging to over 70 different people, abandoned off Howard Rd, north of Highway 54, near the City of Athol. This mail is believed to have been stolen from resident’s mailboxes between Spirit Lake…
"The city attorney told me I have followed all the laws and have provided them with all the information they requested, but the "investigation" will continue until after the election -- Mary Souza, in Oct. 21 newsletter. City Attorney Mike Gridley sent Huckleberries the following…
On her Facebook wall, Pecky Cox/As the Lake Churns posts this photo of fog on Priest Lake. (When I grow up, I want to be as good with a camera as Pecky is. Run for your life/Fort Boise My tombstone/From A Simple Mind Tuesday's work…
In an email to HucksOnline, Tony Stewart, former NIC instructor and human-rights activist, tells this story of a spring 1979 rafting outing on the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River with NIC tennis player Geoff Mould and Geoff's friend, Steve Widmyer: It was early…
... That New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be the featured speaker at a $1000-per-couple fundraiser for Gov. Butch Otter's re-election bid at the Coeur d'Alene Resort Dec. 6. Stay tuned.
"A friend suggests a new bumper sticker: "Hug a teacher, she gave her life to keep your kids alive" -- Spokesman-Review Editor Gary Graham via Twitter.
When it meets tonight, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee will discuss: Kootenai County Republican Central Committee agenda here. A resolution asking for strict enforcement of current immigration laws, rather than a loosening of laws to provide fast-track citizenship for illegal aliens. Resolution here. A…
Journalists participate in a press preview of Yoga: The Art of Transformation at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery in Washington today. The Smithsonian Institution has organized what curators believe is the first exhibition about the visual history and art of yoga. The exhibition includes Indian sculpture,…
On his Facebook wall, Orange TV posts this comment: "This week during my Happy Hour shifts at Mik's I am going to feature a different Halloween related drink - today it's a Tootsie Roll martini! You hated getting them in your trick or treat bag…
In their latest attempt to scare partisans to the polls, the Reagan Republicans are circulating a mass mailing to Coeur d'Alene residents urging them to vote for their four endorsees for Coeur d'Alene mayor and City Council. This is the cover of the two-sided mailer,…
A Berry Picker just brought in this Reagan Republican flyer that hit his mailbox today, conjuring the specter of President Barack Obama in an effort to scare partisans in voting for their four candidates. On the front of the flyer is a photo of Barack…
University of Idaho fall enrollment dropped 5 percent from 2012 to 11,844 students, the college reported Tuesday. Reasons for the decline: A 6 percent drop in the number of continuing students to 8,028. The drop was caused by students graduating more quickly because of the…
A record number of Americans are in favor of legalizing marijuana, according to a new released Tuesday. The poll, which was conducted Oct. 3-6, reports that 58 percent of the public support the legalization of marijuana, while 39 percent oppose it. The tide of public…
In this sketch from "Portlandia," a local newspaper reconfigures its business model to be a aggregation website focused explicitly on drawing in viewers with slideshows about sideboob, celebrity nip slips, stars with no makeup and stars with shaved heads. In other words, they cease being…
On its Facebook wall, Coeur d'Alene police report this 2002 silver Kia Rio Station Wagon stolen from 500 block of Appleway early Monday morning. The car is a 4 door with body damage on rear of vehicle. ID plates K488252. If you see it, call…
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), a liberal firebrand known for his controversial comments, compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan in an email to supporters that features a photo of a burning cross. In an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton, quoted in the…
Eight-term Idaho Republican Congressman Mike Simpson announced Tuesday that his campaign organization includes five of seven state constitutional officers, the top leaders of the Idaho House and Senate and the state’s senior lawmaker, U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo. Gov. Butch Otter and his wife, Lori, are…
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.
