My favorite season of the year has arrived in the Inland Northwest, although it was hard to tell that the calendar had turned last night at Mrs. O & I walked along the shoreline. It resembled a summer evening, with bicyclists, joggers, skateboarders and cruisers…
"September is the best," said Lisa Adlard of Coeur d'Alene as she maneuvered her paddle board past a duck on Fernan Lake on Monday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)
The stories that have attracted the most comments today are: Administrator raises anger teachers (26 comments), and: 9th Circuit hears gay marriage case (15 comments).
Branden Hurst (RE: Morning in Idaho? More like midnight): You know what I find so curious ... Here in Washington, the Supreme Court said that the state wasn't spending enough on public schools and now the legislature is going find itself in contempt of court…
Idaho’s arguments in favor of its invalidated ban on same-sex marriage came in for tough and skeptical questioning from a panel of 9th Circuit judges today. Monte Neil Stewart, a private attorney from Boise who argued on behalf of Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and Attorney…
Time 2 Vote ... Players encased in bouncy, blue orbs push downfield during Seattle's first "Bubble Futbol" tournament in Seattle. Introduced in Europe, the growing sport was spotlighted on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” You write the cutline. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Jordan Stead) Weekend Winner…
5:22 p.m. 19YO female in bright orange T-shirt may have dislocated shoulder jumping from Tubbs Hill rocks. 5:16 p.m. 2 Dodge pickups involved in rear-end collision on H95 @ Plummer. 5:13 p.m. Caller willing to sign complaint vs driver who ran stop sign @ H95/Diagonal.…
Robert 'Mike' Lisle says the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening ceremony for the 28th annual Farragut Veterans Reunion. Lisle trained at the Farragut Naval Training in 1942 and served in the Navy for six years. Robert 'Mike' Lisle says the Pledge of Allegiance at…
From Coeur d'Alene Education Association Facebook page: "Many of you have heard already that the CEA is encouraging District Employees to attend the School Board meeting Monday (9/8) at 5:00 (arrive 4:45) at Midtown Center. Our purpose is simple: Express to the Board that their…
Mike Kempton of the Parks Department clears a no parking sign near Sorensen School. Each year the Parks Department inspects school zones for obstructed traffic safety signs by tree branches. The Parks Department have pruned at several locations and have done all of the necessary…
A group of Boise gay couples chat outside of the U.S. Ninth District Court of Appeals, where their cases for the marriage rights are to be heard today in San Francisco. For the first time since it declared California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, the federal…
My father and uncles were big on making sure our wilderness experiences when I was young were truly wild. Maybe it was because they were (and I still am) proud of having been descended from Idaho pioneers who moved from the South after the Civil…
The Coeur d'Alene community lost yet another legendary professional when Dr. Wilbur Lyon passed away Aug. 19 at the age of 89. Lyon came to Coeur d'Alene and became its 14th doctor in 1961, in a bygone era when milkmen left cold bottles on the…
Put yourself in my size twelves. Say a close family member just happened to manage one of the planet’s biggest divas. You know, like Madonna. Or J. Lo, or … Ryan Seacrest. You know what you’d do. You’d wangle and whine until that close family…
To hear Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter's latest campaign commercial, it's virtually "morning again" in Idaho. Unemployment is down. The economic outlook is healthy. The state is a great place to start a business. He's kidding, right? It's bad enough Otter constructs this edifice on the…
In this Jan. 20, 2013, file photo, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice (27) goes in for a two-yard touchdown run against New England Patriots outside linebacker Dont'a Hightower (54) during the first half of the NFL football AFC Championship football game in Foxborough, Mass.…
Saturday, Sept. 13, would have been Robert Dwayne Hopper's 75th birthday. For those new here, or with short-term memories, Robert Hopper was owner and managing partner of the legendary Bunker Hill Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, from 1990 until his death in January 2011. He was…
11:54 a.m. Male at McDonalds drive-thru/Hanley Avenue reports someone tried to fight him. 11:45 a.m. Male w/backpack sitting near Qemiln Park/Post Falls entrance is being approached by individuals, one at a time; caller believes he's selling drugs. 11:05 p.m. Caretaker at Huetter rest stop report…
On Saturday, about 100 members of the WSU Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority returned to Coeur d'Alene to make amends for the well-publicized incident earlier this year involving sorority sisters peeing against the back wall of the North Idaho Museum at City Park. Recreation Director and…
Weekend Poll: A majority of Hucks Nation is satisfied with information provided by the city of Coeur d'Alene Friday morning re: Arfee shooting controversy. 88 of 167 respondents (52.69%) said they were satisfied with the information. 38 of 167 respondents (22.75%) said they were somewhat…
Justice for Arfee Rally organizer Kiela Long of Coeur d'Alene cheers on participants Sunday at the start of the demonstration in downtown Coeur d'Alene. (Coeur d'Alene Press Photo: Devin Heilman) Tierra Peters held her head high and raised her picket sign into the air. "Justice…
Rupert Butler, who is retired and moved to the Inland Northwest last year from Texas, has a lush, green lawn. Butler lives in the Modern Water District. One of Modern’s water towers looms nearby. On Sunday, the Spokesman-Review's took a look at the region's sole-source…
Former Idaho First Lady Jacque Batt died Sunday. She was married to former Gov. Phil Batt for 66 years. The cause of death is unknown. A death notice was not immediately available Monday. State Sen. Patti Anne Lodge, who lives in Canyon County, said she…
When lawyers for the state of Idaho and for four Idaho lesbian couples face off in a federal appeals courtroom in San Francisco on Monday, the fate of Idaho’s invalidated ban on same-sex marriage will hang in the balance. Idaho is pushing hard in its…
Salary raises given last year to several central office administrators in the Coeur d'Alene School District are raising eyebrows now, as teacher contract negotiations for this year are at a stalemate and headed for mediation. The pay increases ranging from 4 percent to 23 percent…
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.
