Kootenai County is considering relaxing shoreline regulations, giving Lake Coeur d’Alene property owners more flexibility to clear native trees and shrubs and plant lawns near the water. Current rules require a 25-foot buffer, which is one of the most permissive in the region. The buffers are intended to absorb runoff & protect water quality ...
Even with a bracing wind blowing off the lake, the first food truck rally in downtown Coeur d’Alene did a brisk business Sunday. Hundreds lined up for grilled cheese sandwiches, tacos, crepes, sausages, jerk chicken, steak wraps and more. Six food vendors set up on the edge of McEuen Park and cooked their dishes into the evening ...
Things are improving in Idaho's travel and tourism industry. Diane Norton, tourism manager of the Idaho Division of Tourism, gave a State of the State Tourism Industry presentation during the eighth annual North Idaho Tourism Summit at the Best Western Plus Coeur d'Alene Inn Thursday.
A few bad apples are giving law enforcement officers bad names across the nation. But you don't have to look far, according to Sunday print Huckleberries, to find examples of officers locally who go the extra mile, at some of the most extreme times in people's lives.
Our governor isn't competent enough to handle a veto correctly. Our legislative leaders of the majority party care more for an inadequate road bill than they do important child-support enforcement legislation. Our North Idaho delegation is an embarrassment, except for two of them. Four of...
Six mobile vendors will form a temporary food court in the lower parking lot of City Hall today, offering a range of specialties from Meltz Southern Q Sandwich (photo) to King of Tacos and Coeur de Breizh. The event was planned by the city of Coeur d'Alene in conjunction with National Grilled Cheese Day on Sunday. Check it out.
Try as he might, House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, couldn't get the House GOP to overturn the ridiculous House Judiciary & Rules Committee vote against the child support enforcement bill. The House refused to call the bill out of committee in a party-line vote. Well, at least we can say the House GOP saved the worst for last.
BOISE – In a tumultuous final day that ran long into the night, Idaho lawmakers on Friday brokered a transportation funding compromise that satisfied no one and killed critical child-support enforcement legislation out of concerns over Sharia (Islamic law), despite warnings that they were gutting…
In my almost 40 years of working on children's issues this has to stand out as one of the most deliberate acts of harm to vulnerable women and children that I have even seen. It can't be allowed to stand -- Dan of the Community.
It appears that there are too many guns, cellphones in use, and angry, impatient motorists out there on local roads today (See: Road Ragers infect Ramsey Road). So maybe it's best to be inside this viewtiful morning in the Coeur d'Alene area. I'll do my...
A woman lays on the street to protest violence against women, in Pamplona northern Spain Friday. According to the World Health Organization recent global prevalence figures indicate that 35 percent of women worldwide have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their…
It comes as no surprise to Huckleberries that four of the 9 House Judiciary & Rules Committee votes against the crucial child support legislation came from the usual suspects in North Idaho: Sims, McMillan, Cheatham & Scott. Rep. Luke Malek, whom you voted as Best North Idaho legislator, got this one right. Final vote: 9-8 against. F'shame.
House Judiciary and Rules voted 9-8 Friday to table a bill that would put Idaho in compliance with federal child support collection. According to Idaho Child Support Program Director Kandace Yearsley, the bill’s failure means an immediate loss of more than $16 million in federal funds to the state of Idaho for its child support collection program.
Today's Cutline Contest spotlights Kim, Khloe and the rest of the Kardashian clan meeting qith Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan in their ancestral home of Armenia. Thursday's winner: JohnA.
A new city law that regulates door-to-door solicitation in Coeur d’Alene went into effect on Friday. The purpose of the ordinance is to help ensure public safety by providing another level of protection for Coeur d’Alene residents who are approached by salespeople visiting homes. The...
This afternoon's Scanner Traffic (16 items + AM Scanner Traffic link) including report of CPR in progress on 18YO male who is unconscious & not breathing in front of Tito's in downtown Coeur d'Alene ...
The former River City Dentistry building on the corner of Greensferry Road and Schneidmiller Avenue in Post Falls was demolished Friday morning due to the construction of the Greensferry overpass. Construction workers in the background look on from the emerging structure. The overpass is slated...
In an Idaho Falls Post Register editorial, Corey Taule opines: "The bedrock ideal of religious freedom — and its necessary companion, tolerance — has not fared well lately in Idaho." It then goes on to list three incidents involving Idaho legislators, including Vito Barbieri, that have hurt the state's reputation with their actions this session ...
After spending a week in Las Vegas, JohnA isn't sure that the stereotypical vision of the city is accurate -- that as simply "Sin City" and "Lost Wages." Sure, there's plenty of those two elements. But he also found an orderly, well-conceived city that's tree-lined with only one flaw that annoyed him -- No lawns for his big dog to do its job ...
Craft beer fan Keith Carpenter and his wife, Megan, have opened the Filling Station in the back of Scratch Bistro at 5th St & Sherman Ave in downtown Coeur d'Alene. The Filling station will offer the city's first growler specialty shop. You know what a growler is, don't you?
Minority Leader John Rusche is trying to figure out the end game for legislators that seem to be shaking in their boots that Sharia law will soon sweep over Idaho. He wonders whether the Sharia Law boogeyman is being used as a means by them to pour more hate onto the federal government. Anyone?
At an abbreviated Wallace Street Journal, David Bond describes cooking mistakes that he has made, including, most recently, prime rib roast. No, he didn't open the oven door while cooking. But he did something that sent his dog into a frenzy. Can you describe a cooking mistake that you've made?
A letter writer to the Coeur d'Alene Press praised the dog park at Ramsey Road and Nez Perce -- and gives thanks to former county commissioner/councilman Bob Macdonald and others who had the vision to get it going. Personal note: Last time I drove past the park, it was packed with dogs and owners.
In this Nov. 2, 2014, file photo, Mount St. Joseph's Lauren Hill, center, gets congratulated by teammates after scoring during her first NCAA college basketball game against Hiram University at Xavier University in Cincinnati. The 19-year-old freshman who inspired the nation with her desire to…
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.
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