Odd day at Huckleberries Online today. I posted some items from 8 to 9 a.m. Then, I headed car-pooled to the Spokane office for a required seminar on workplace harassment. Interesting. Then, back to the Coeur d'Alene office, where I tried to get back up…
"It's hard to speak to an all-school assembly, posts SR photog Jesse Tinsley on his Facebook page. "Most kids could care less. But they listened to Eastern Washington University quarterback Vernon Adams when he said most of his friends from high school in Pasadena were…
Sen. Russ Fulcher says Gov. Butch Otter is afraid to defend his “shallow record” and limiting give-and-take to a single debate on Idaho Public Television May 14. Speaking to about 100 people at an Ada County Republican Central Committee forum Tuesday night, Fulcher urged Otter’s…
Top Post of day attracted 23 comments ... Something must be done about the roaming vagrants in this area who hang out in the Coeur d’Alene library, Fresh Start and up and down Sherman Avenue from The Coeur d’Alene Resort down to the Conoco gas…
A steady drizzle in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley cleared out some walkways Tuesday, but it didn’t keep these four determined walkers from their mission on the Lewiston Levee path. (Lewiston Tribune photo: Barry Kough) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Caldwell legislative wannabe calls it quits/IPT Bomb threat…
Nearly three dozen sea turtles that were rescued on Cape Cod last fall are released off Florida waters Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bob Mack) Tuesday Winner -- Fort Boise, with 6 likes: A kiss is as good…
5:12 p.m. Female on Cliffhouse/Hauser Lake reports her estranged ex is on her property. 4:55 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for April 22-23 here. 4:38 p.m. Someone is unconcious @ 32700 block of Clagstone Road/Athol. 4:30 p.m. Animal control officer en route to…
... Kootenai County is constructing a new Buildings & Grounds office at the site of the old prosecutor's office, across from the judicial building on Garden Avenue. This will enable the Buildings & Grounds Department to move from a rental downtown. The new facility will…
KXLY's Kris Crocker tweets: "This makes me feel better about the Post Falls Outlets: Completely Surreal Photos Of America’s Abandoned Malls." She then provides a link to photos of deserted malls around the country. Click here. Question: Is the Post Falls Outlets completely vacant? What…
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his wife Ashton have filed for divorce. The two were married in January 2012. The Seahawks released a statement from Wilson on the issue: “I have made the difficult decision to file for divorce. Clearly, decisions like these don’t…
The medical building housing Kootenai Cancer Center was briefly evacuated this afternoon when flames broke out during maintenance on a boiler. A build up of natural gas caused the small fire, which singed the hair of the maintenance technician, said Becky Orchard, a Kootenai Health…
My friend Kevin Taylor gets around the Inland Northwest. We first worked together more than 30 years ago at the short-lived Spokane Sports Journal. Then both of us graduated to The Spokesman-Review. Kevin later worked for the Pacific Northwest Inlander and is now a freelance…
Master fly fisherman Tim Rajeff of Vancouver, Wash., lands a monster rainbow in Strobel Lake, Argentina. Rajeff is coming to North Idaho this weekend and he’s only part of the celebrity action during the two-day Sandpoint Fly Fishing Film Festival. Rich Landers' Outdoors blog story…
Artist Abigail Gutting of Abigail Gutting Fine Art will be the featured artist at Coeur d'Alene Galleries during the monthly downtown Coeur d'Alene Artwalk scheduled for Friday, May 9. The 18-by-24-inch oil above, entitled "Heat of July" is one of Gutting's works that will be…
How much do you know about your chances of being audited by the IRS, Idaho casino gambling regulations and other news of note? Take The Spokesman-Review' weekly News Quiz and find out. You could win two movie tickets or a $50 gift card to the…
Christie Wood: City leadership is actively working to address homelessness with other community organizations. They have been successful in helping several families quit living on the streets. The Police Department has a spokesperson (me) and I speak on behalf of the Chief of Police. The…
President Barack Obama embraces Jon Lovick, Snohomish County Executive, after speaking to speaks to first responders, recovery workers and community members at the Oso Fire Department in Oso, Wash., Tuesday, the site of the deadly mudslide that struck the community in March. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Tuesday Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation sez the individuals who have flocked to Nevada to support rancher Cliven Bundy's stand against the federal government are "misguided at best." 111 of 259 respondents (42.86%) took that position. Another 52 of 259 (20.08%) said they were…
U.S. Senator Jim Risch will welcome U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to North Idaho at 2 p.m. Friday to tour Bullet Tools, 3390 W. Hayden Ave., Hayden. Cantwell is the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Risch serves as…
Despite being sympathetic to concerns that cross-dressing men are using women’s public restrooms, Spokane Valley city leaders say state and federal anti-discrimination laws prohibit them from doing anything about it. “This is not a comfortable topic for any of us,” Deputy Mayor Arne Woodard said…
Post Falls residents Annie Javier,5, front left and Abby Daines, 5 front right danced with members of the Spokane Shock dance team at The Ray and Joan Kroc Center in Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday as part of the 9th Man Kids' Day with The Spokane…
Sherri Ybarra is principal at West Elementary School at Mountain Home. She's one of four relatively unknown candidates seeking the GOP nomination for state schools chief. And she has a problem. Ybarra didn't vote on the Luna Laws two years ago. How can someone who…
Today's Coeur d'Alene Press editorial: As you'll see in a moment if you hadn't noticed before, a Coeur d'Alene School District patron isn't happy with district officials. Mary Jo Finney told school board Chairman Tom Hearn to his face -- in front of a televised…
Local Democrats are calling on the Kootenai County clerk to apologize publicly for what they believe was a mishandling of the candidate filings for the upcoming May primary. In a letter addressed to Clerk Jim Brannon, Kootenai County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Paula Neils, pictured,…
In this Oct. 8, 2010, file photo, Ashley Buchan holds her 4-year-old nephew Caleb Anthony, as she reaches to touch the face of the statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa. In 2012, the school removed…
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.
