A couple dance to the Latin/salsa music of Barry Aiken & North Point at Hayden City Park Thursday evening. The free concert is one of the series provided by Chris Guggemos and Handshake Productions in four venues this summer. There will be no concert at…
Facebook Friend Bruce Twitchell: Every time I see a fundraiser for medical purposes, whether it is for an accident that happened or a disease, or hell something small, it convinces me more and more that our country needs single-payer health care. No one should go…
Idaho Republicans are poised to elect a new party leader after spending months entrenched in political infighting over who should have control of the state's GOP. The state central committee, which serves as the Republican Party's governing body, will gather for a special meeting Saturday…
An Arizona man who engaged police in a shootout on Interstate 90 near Post Falls was indicted by a Kootenai County grand jury on 12 counts of Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. Marcus Rael, of Glendale, Ariz.,…
Postal worker Levi Hanson is seriously into collecting Expo ’74 memorabilia even though the fair took place before he was born. Story here. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Idaho 14YO loses hand in explosion/KTVB Edit: It's hot & they're hungry/Coeur d'Alene Press…
Cleveland Indians pitcher Nick Hagadone is shown in this 2012 file photo leaving a Major League Baseball game. Reliever Hagadone, of Sandpoint, pitched against the Mariners this week. Writes Marianne Love/Slight Detour Facebooks: "Fun to see 'Hagadone' on the Cleveland pitcher's jersey vs Seattle Mariners.…
Movoto Blog provides the wealthiest Americans in each of the United States. Idaho's wealthiest? Frank Vandersloot, the conservative kingmaker of southeastern Idaho, with a worth of $1.2B. Washington's wealthiest? Bill Gates with $80B. You can see the wealthiest state-by-state here.
In the comments section under Sen. Bob Nonini's letter to veterans that was printed in the Coeur d'Alene Press, political activist Brent Regan writes: "Why does people fail to speak the truth? If you take the time to get the facts you learn that Len…
They're creepy and they're kooky, and they're coming to Coeur d'Alene. "The Addams Family," presented by Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre and directed by Makaela Pollock, will open in the Kroc Center Performing Arts Theater Aug 7. CST's production will be the first professional regional production…
First, the Spokane Country Club was ordered to pay around a half-million dollars for discriminating against its women members. Then, after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars defending the traditions by which it offered lesser services to women for the same price as the men,…
State Sen. Bob Nonini wrote the following letter to Commander Steve Hanson of the American Legion Post 143 to mitigate the controversy caused by a recent letter from his wife, Cathyanne. Sen. Nonini's letter was printed in the Coeur d'Alene Press today. It begins: "I…
Josh McCoy, chief of environmental services for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, adheres a sign to a door at Coeur d’Alene’s new VA clinic. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Shawn Gust) The new $1.8 million Department of Veterans Affairs' outpatient clinic in Coeur d'Alene will…
The city of Coeur d'Alene launched its new poll feature this morning with this question: "Would you like to see the development of more off-leash dog parks in Coeur d’Alene?" I voted yes. Which puts me in the current minority. 48% have voted no, 38%…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Marty Trillhaase/Lewiston Tribune gives Jeers ... "to state Sen. Dean Mortimer, R-Idaho Falls. He wants to put the chill into Idaho's Office of Performance Evaluations. The Legislature's investigative arm, OPE follows facts wherever they lead. For instance, OPE…
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