I forgot to mention yesterday that I had coffee at the new Java on Sherman with Coeur d'Alene Tribe spokeswoman Heather Keen. She's quite a talent and an IronwomanCDA, to boot. I was assigned to cover the tribe back in the '80s when unemployment on…
Bertha Pistone, 90, passes a ring across a curved metal structure at an exercise station at the new senior playground at Carbide Park in La Marque, Texas. The playground will be officially open to the public Thursday, after a ribbon-cutting ceremony. (AP Photo/The Galveston County…
Jamie Lynn Morgan (RE: It's hard to look cool on a bicycle): I always look cool riding my bike :) It is probably because I don't care what someone else thinks about how I look. I enjoy riding it and it gets me from point…
My son was reading a book a few years ago and paused to ask me, “Mom, what does a typewriter look like?” I went to the storage area above the garage and hauled out my extremely heavy electric typewriter. I could never let it go.…
Time 2 Vote ... Copies of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's book "Hard Choices," rest on a cart moments before a book signing by the former first lady at Bunch of Grapes Bookstore on Wednesday in Vineyard Haven, Mass. You write the cutline.…
5:41 p.m. Grass is smoldering @ w/b I-90 east of MP 6 (Seltice Way/Post Falls). 5:13 p.m. Parking problem & possible animal abuse reported @ 6th/Lakeside, CdA. 5:04 p.m. Undisclosed theft reported @ 2100 block of Coeur d'Alene Avenue/CdA. 5:03 p.m. 4 occupants are out…
The city has launched a new online graffiti reporting tool, allowing people to photograph the graffiti, upload the address where it was found and report it to the city’s code enforcement officers. Heather Trautman, director of the Office of Neighborhood Services and code enforcement, demonstrated…
Campers at North Idaho College’s Intermediate NXT Robotics Camp programed robots to maneuver through an obstacle course Thursday. The Lego NXT Mindstorm robots use various sensors controlled through a graphical user interface to weave their way around various obstacles. Pictured are 9-year-old Chet Hanna (left)…
The sponsors of a controversial wolf-hunting competition in Idaho last year are proposing an annual contest on federal lands that rewards participants for bagging as many animals as they can in three days, organizers said Thursday. The group, named Idaho for Wildlife, is seeking a…
Let’s suppose for a moment that your neighbors are in trouble. For whatever reason, they’ve fallen on rough times and can’t pay their bills. Things are so tough that they’ve even missed payments to the city water department, prompting the government to disconnect service. Could…
Every time I ride my bike, I think of the old lady in the movie Wizard of Oz. Maybe it is my basket that does it to me? There just doesn't seem to be anyway to look cool on a bike. I have seen a…
At Writing North Idaho, author Elizabeth S. Brinton of Coeur d'Alene, tells of meeting budding comedian Robin Williams in 1976 at a Colorado nightclub where she worked: "I arrived at the club early and checked in with my friend who worked in the office. He…
"When you live near one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, you want to spend as much time at it as possible," posts Idaho Dad/A Family Runs Through It. "This is what we try to do all summer. We look at it, swim…
News Release: "Hecla Mining Company is pleased to announce the Company has fulfilled the Coeur d'Alene Basin Environmental Settlement's financial obligations. The final payment of $41.3 million was made today from the exercise of the remaining outstanding warrants. 'We are pleased to put this litigation…
"So I'm up on the hill checking out the sunset when a family of skunks waddle out of the tall grass," posts Facebook Friend Robin Loznak, of Kellogg, Ore. "They're way interested in me and my camera. I've got skunk nose marks on my lens.…
"Ron Paul -- Liberty, Peace & Prosperity" -- on a rusted red Subaru with a cracked front wind shield that kept trying to stall at street lights, driven by a woman w/b on Lakeside Avenue during the lunch hour. Prosperity?
Our state leaders do not want an educated electorate. As long as the typical Idaho voter is low information, the "leaders" have a good shot at getting re-elected -- Bob Ely (RE: Idaho colleges list possible cuts)
Police in Ferguson, MO defended the use of tear gas and smoke bombs to repel demonstrators after another night of chaos. But the police response has drawn heavy criticism. Attorney General Holder says he's concerned about police use of military equipment. Are you concerned police…
A child molester who was raped while held in the Garfield County Jail in Pomeroy is suing the county. The complaint filed Tuesday in Walla Walla Superior Court says the man suffers anxiety and nightmares. He's seeking an amount of money that would be determined…
Before his death at age 63 on Monday, Robin Williams had been battling the early stages of Parkinson's disease, his wife has revealed in a new statement. Although the actor had been candid about his battles with addiction and depression through the years, at the…
Two leaders of a polygamous Mormon community in Bountiful, British Columbia, face criminal charges of keeping more than one wife, according to Canadian officials. Winston Blackmore and James Oler have ties to other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living…
Vermont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, second from left, and Gov. Peter Shumlin, second from right, take the "ice bucket challenge" at the Vermont Statehouse today in Montpelier, Vt. They were doused by Montpelier Mayor John Hollar, left, Barre Mayor Thom Lauzon, right, and a team…
12:03 p.m. Officer finds only destroyed plastic bucket in I-90 search for reported debris b/n Pleasantview/Spokane St. 11:57 a.m. Beachouse employees report 2 dogs running loose on Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive. 11:48 a.m. Suspicious male reported @ 32000 block of 4th/Athol. 11:32 a.m. Undisclosed medical…
The mega-load of oil refinery equipment traveling through Idaho advanced up Highway 95 last night to the Athol area. If it travels tonight as planned, the shipment should come through Sandpoint late tonight and park early Friday morning near milepost 44 on Highway 200/Sandpoint Online…
A protester shouts as she moves away from a line of riot police in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday. On Saturday, Aug. 9, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes)…
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.
