BAYVIEW - Visitors and residents can pick up that jug of milk soon. The Bayview Mercantile, the community's only store, is scheduled to reopen at the end of this month. It has been a long winter without one of the community's core businesses, residents and…
Scott Esk, a Republican Tea Party candidate in Oklahoma, got into a debate on Facebook last summer in which he advocated killing homosexuals. “I think we would be totally in the right to do it,” Esk wrote in comments uncovered by Oklahoma journalist Rob Morris.…
HAYDEN - Someone is turning a field of dreams into a nightmare. Croffoot Park, where Hayden Little Leaguers play and practice, has been burglarized or vandalized on four separate occasions since May 20, Kootenai County Sheriff's Lt. Stu Miller said. On three of those incidents,…
A berrypicker sent HucksOnline the following mystery. "A co-worker pointed out something strange that is going on in the current Frontier phonebook for Coeur d'Alene. On pretty much every page of the residential white pages there will be a half a dozen or so phone…
A letter published Wednesday in the Coeur d'Alene Press could at best be described as badly failed satire. It explains the efforts made to "obstruct ebony Americans" from their right to vote and says the country has issued "Stand Your Ground hunting permits" for black…
Here are a few more tidbits from the state GOP convention in Moscow, courtesy of Melissa Davlin of Idaho Reports. * Idaho GOP Chairman Barry Peterson announced that he’s asked 1st District Congressman Raul Labrador to serve as chairman of the convention, and Labrador’s agreed.…
OLYMPIA – A recent report on how the state will spend more money on education is so inadequate the state Supreme Court threatened Thursday to hold the Legislature in contempt. The state’s highest court said the Legislature’s latest update on how the state can meet…
SAN ANTONIO — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returned to the United States early Friday after his release from five years in captivity in Afghanistan in a controversial prisoner swap with the Taliban. Bergdahl, who has been recovering at an Army medical facility in Germany since…
Clydesdales in action: Budweiser Dalmatian Chip is lowered from the Budweiser wagon by Doug Bousselot, lead supervisor of the Clydesdale team, after the Budweiser Clydesdales pulled the wagon for an audience Wednesday at the Spokane Convention Center Tyler Tjomsland photo
I closed this thread because I'm tired of deleting comments. Moving right along....CH A fatal shooting in Oregon on Tuesday was the 31st firearms attack at a U.S. school since the start of the year, marking a sharp acceleration in the rash of violence that…
My buttons were bursting with pride yesterday when my youngest showed me the Presidential education award he'd been given for Outsanding Academic Excellence. My glow didn't diminish even when Sam said, "You know President Obama didn't really sign this ,don't you? You do know it's…
A growing aerospace parts manufacturer may land in Post Falls' backyard, at the former Jacklin Seed facility along Interstate 90. The city council has directed consultant Nancy Mabile to apply for an Idaho Community Development Block Grant for $494,427 to help fund infrastructure upgrades for…
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Schools may be out for the summer, but ibraries at two in North Idaho are staying open during the break thanks to an innovative pilot project the Idaho Commission for Libraries is undertaking. The libraries at Fernan Elementary in Coeur d'Alene…
General view at the Itaquerao Stadium during an official training session the day before the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Croatia in the Itaquerao Stadium, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. The World Cup is the world’s greatest sporting spectacle…
GARDEN CITY -- An agency that helps provide vital services for southwest Idaho's elderly and disabled could close at the end of the month. It's the result of a battle over funding that's been brewing for months. The Idaho Council of Governments, or ICOG, has…
COEUR d'ALENE - Nine young adults are now confident, willing and ready to enter the workforce, thanks to Project Search. They have the business cards to prove it. Four of the 2014 program's graduates stood before members of the Project Search Business Advisory Council during…
Idaho's first rabid bat of the year has been confirmed in eastern Idaho, and a teenager who found the injured bat in a local park and was bitten is being treated for rabies exposure, but is expected to be fine. “Rabies is a fatal viral…
(Newser) – Those who speak by packing their sentences with words such as "you know," "I mean," and "like" aren't being ditzy as pop culture would suggest—they're being conscientious. So suggests a new study in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology whose authors say…
Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania and mayor of Philadelphia, former Democratic National Committee chairman and a revered figure in Pennsylvania and in Democratic politics, will give the keynote address at the Idaho Democratic Party’s convention next weekend in Moscow. The Dems will kick off…
As Unapologeticdemocrat noted in the Gun Violence thread, bulletproof blankets are a thing-- and sales are booming. The alarming rate of school shootings across the country appears to have added an unsettling new item to parents' list of "back to school" items: bulletproof armor for…
When Douglas Kempthorne was called into the principal’s office at Gonzaga Preparatory School it wasn’t a reprimand that was waiting for him. It was a dinner invitation from Dirk Kempthorne, former governor of Idaho and the man the teen is named after. “It was great…
Yesterday while out and about, I rolled down the windows and cranked up the radio. "Let It Be," by the Beatles came on. Didn't fit my mood. Swiched channels. "Love Love Me Do" was on. Switched channels. "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was playing.…
OLYMPIA — Police dashboard cameras can’t be withheld from public disclosure unless they relate to pending litigation, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Five of the high court’s members said that the Seattle Police Department wrongly used a state statute as a blanket exemption…
As Idaho Republicans head to Moscow for the state party convention in hopes of unifying a deeply divided party, state Sen. Russ Fulcher, who unsuccessfully challenged Gov. Butch Otter in the GOP primary, isn’t too optimistic about unity. “We are very, very split as a…
WASHINGTON – The United States is preparing to send new aid to Iraq to help slow a violent insurgent march that is threatening to take over the nation’s north, officials said Wednesday. But the Obama administration offered only tepid support for Iraq’s beleaguered prime minister,…
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