Julie Wilkins helps her grandson, Griffin Brady, 3, put a box of crayons in a shopping cart while shopping for school supplies at a Target store in Memphis, Tenn., in July. NEW YORK – The back-to-school shopping season is off to a promising start, but…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state’s first…
DFO is taking a four-day weekend because that's what DFO does sometimes. Knowing I'll be planted at my desk in a mad scramble to meet my book deadline, he asked if I'd hang out around here. So, here we are. I did take a break…
Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: There's a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third-driest year on record. The details of where and how bottling companies get their water are often quite murky, but generally speaking, bottled water falls…
In recent weeks, the conventional wisdom on Hillary Clinton seems to have shifted. Her White House bid has gone from being perceived as an inevitable juggernaut to decidedly shaky ground. While this might seem surprising, a growing number of political insiders have suggested they saw…
Colorful former Idaho Congressman George Hansen, who served seven terms in the U.S. House, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate three times, and also served time in federal prison, died Thursday in a Pocatello hospital at the age of 83. Idaho Statesman reporter Rocky Barker has…
Last week's “zipper-head” rant in this space about the behaviours of certain out-of-state bicycle-trail riders touched a few nerves, as publicly evidenced by several letters to the editor at the News-Press last week, and by a particularly snarky remark from a cocktail waitress in Wallace…
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed that one or more wolves from the Huckleberry Pack in southern Stevens County killed 12 sheep Aug. 11 and two more Aug. 12 on private property off the Springdale-Hunters Road. The attack just north of Blue…
For 98 years, passengers have shuttled east and west through the train station in Sandpoint—including President Theodore Roosevelt in 1911 during a stop recommended by Idaho Senator William Borah. Since 1997, when the Pioneer Route was discontinued in Southern Idaho, the Sandpoint station has been…
Newser) – Danielle Wolf was not having a good night at the Kroger grocery store in North Augusta, SC, where she moved with her family just three weeks ago. She says her husband kept squishing the bread in their cart by putting frozen pizzas on…
A berrypicker reported seeing this bumpersticker in CdA last week: If you voted for Obama stay 500 feet behind, I don't trust your judgement!
If voters say yes on Aug. 26, the Wilder School District will put some money from a supplemental property tax levy into athletics and the academic decathlon, to keep the district from imposing a pay-to-play program. Some money would be used to offset employee health…
Will Young looks for signs of washout as he tramps along an old U.S. Forest Service road. It’s been years since logging trucks last lumbered down this dirt road, which gradually fades into an alder thicket. The road no longer serves either the timber industry…
In the Arfee shooting investigation thread, Randy Meyers details changes he'd like so see happen within the CdA police department. "In the nearly 25 years I have been here the department has crept towards militarization. A reorganization of responsibilities and command structure is likely needed.…
BOISE - The National Interagency Fire Center says folks flying unauthorized drones near wildfires are getting in firefighters’ way, and they’re asking the drone operators to cut it out. Unauthorized drones “could cause serious injury or death to firefighters on the ground,” NIFC warned today…
Police in riot gear watch protesters in Ferguson, Mo., on Wednesday. The arrest of two reporters covering the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri earlier this week prompted outrage in some quarters and posed the question of just who can take pictures of police officers. The answer…
Last week was Thor's annual physical. I'm pleased to announce my once tubby tabby is down from 18 pounds to 14 pounds. The vet said he is very muscular and healthy. Of course, part of that weight loss probably occurred in the car as he…
WASHINGTON – At first glance, the “Central Valley Update,” the “Augusta Update” and the “Aurora Update” appear to be doing what any news site would do: hold local candidates accountable. Problem is, they’re not real news sites. The National Republican Congressional Committee has launched more…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The police chief in the St. Louis suburb where an officer fatally shot an unarmed teenager identified the officer on Friday as Darren Wilson, and said the officer was dispatched to the area after a reported robbery. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas…
For the Coeur d’Alene Police Department, the dog days of summer have been less about the weather than the heat over its closely watched investigation of a police officer’s fatal shooting of Arfee, the black Labrador left inside his owner’s parked van. The controversial shooting…
The Idaho State Police say a fatality crash is blocking all lanes of U.S. Highway 95 on the Long Bridge near Sandpoint. Investigators were on-scene Friday morning, according to dispatchers. The bridge is expected to be closed for some time, and motorists should take alternate…
A car speeds past the megaload that is parked along Highway 95, between Silverwood and Athol Thursday afternoon en route north to Sandpoint. (Photo Duane Rasmussen) 2 more photos of the megaload in the comments section.
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.
