This Fantasy Football fan will be riding the Seattle Seahawks defense in the playoffs for both my teams over the next two weeks, including Seattle's matchup with my S.F. 49ers next weekend. Am I a traitor to the 49er cause? Or simply someone playing the…
A man talks on the phone at a Radio Shack that was vandalized early today in Berkeley, Calif., as protesters angered by police killings in Missouri and New York demonstrated in the streets. (AP Photo/Gabriel Reyes)
Ken Weatherwax, who played the child character Pugsley on “The Addams Family” television series in the 1960s, has died. He was 59. Weatherwax died of a heart attack at his Box Canyon, California, home over the weekend, said Joey D. Vieira, his half brother. Weatherwax’s…
Top Comment -- ThomG57 (RE: Malloy: Can Mary Souza be effective?): "The question is whether Mary will take the Ron Rankin path and be changed by the responsibilities of governance, or the Steve Adams path and remain a rigid ideologue at the expense of the…
A new report says Idaho could lose up to $111 million a year if the state took control of its federal public lands. The University of Idaho's Policy Analysis Group report was requested by a legislative committee tasked with studying a state takeover of federal…
4:58 p.m. Officer removes oven (4:49 item) from H41/MP 16 (Seasons Road). 4:49 p.m. A oven & other garbage is lying on H41/MP 16 (Seasons hill/Twin Lakes). 4:40 p.m. 2 drunks in red SUV w/missing taillight have left Rathdrum supermarket on e/b H53. 4:20 p.m.…
A thief stole five stained glass windows from the All Saints Lutheran Church on Sunday, Dec. 7. Story here. (Photo: Spokane Police Department)
And the answer is: $45. The question? What does a key shop in the Coeur d'Alene area charge to unlock a car in which a driver has locked the keys. Cheapest. As I type this, there are motorists waiting for said key shop to unlock…
The illustration below shows Memorial Field in the new proposed orientation with a soccer field overlay and retention of the existing grandstand. Click on photo for a better view. (Illustration from city of Coeur d'Alene Web site re: 4 Corners master plan)
The predominant news out of the just-finished organizational session of the Idaho Legislature didn’t make the front page of most Idaho papers, and that was a reasonable call. There were a few committee changes, and a few on the lower rungs of leadership. But the…
I wouldn’t exactly say, that at the age of 60, I am a Millennial myself. Actually, a baby boomer technically speaking, of an era and a generation, where it was thought you really could have it all. Well, when I was born in 1954, and…
Cindy Facebooks: "Look what the UPS man brought! The first printed advance review copies of War Bonds!"
While others were pointing their cameras at the eagles at Beauty Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene last weekend, Duane Rasmussen caught this scene of the float homes on the bay in the morning fog.
... During my daily lunch walk, I heard one side of a conversation from a young woman talking loudly on a cell phone as she crossed from McEuen Park to the Coeur d'Alene Resort grounds: "I can't understand why he broke up with her because…
It’s only natural for people to dream about Hawaiian vacations, especially this time of year. For some, that kind of vacation might be the holiday of a lifetime. For others, it might mean an annual affair. Whatever, it’s one of the easiest kinds of trips…
Gonzaga men’s basketball coach Mark Few tops the latest list of highest-paid private university employees for the Pacific Northwest region at over $1.2 million per year. Few, who last month was named the nation's best college basketball coach for the money by Forbes magazine, earned…
An eagle hangs out on a branch above Beauty Bay surveying the waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene for a meal, over the weekend. Duane Rasmussen was one of the many photographers there to snap pictures of these majestic creatures during their annual visit to the…
Those of us in the news media often think public officials are clueless or worse when it comes to open meeting and public record laws. Some of those public officials have a pretty good idea what they'd like us media lunkheads to do with our…
Some of the letters to the editor lately have been less than kind toward Tony. I wish to make it clear that he does not stand alone. The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations stands in full support of his efforts, and continues to…
Photographer Jerry Rolwes of Valley Chapel Photography in Spokane walks across the road to join a handful of other photographers. The photographers, all with very large lenses, were stalking eagles Sunday morning in the fog near Beauty Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene.(Photo: Duane Rasmussen)
11:30 a.m. Auto burglary reported @ Capone's parking lot, Government Way/Hayden Avenue. 11:27 a.m. Female reports boyfriend's 17YO daughter won't leave house @ 7800 block of Quincy Court/CdA. 11:18 a.m. Street dept worker found license plate from possible DUI hit-and-run driver @ NW Blvd/Ironwood, CdA.…
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was highly skeptical this morning of arguments on behalf of a Coeur d’Alene woman that NSA cell phone surveillance violates her constitutional right to privacy. When Coeur d’Alene attorney Peter J. Smith began his arguments,…
A pile of feathers left for dead, all bruised and battered, broken, red; but now we hear a thunder squawk -- that's no Phoenix -- that's the Seahawk!
Parade-goers in Coeur d'Alene might not have to leave their guns at home anymore. During the Coeur d'Alene City Council meeting on Dec. 16, City Attorney Mike Gridley will present an amendment to a city ordinance which, until changed, bans guns during public events. The…
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.
