In her Main Street/Coeur d'Alene Press column today, Kerri Thoreson recalls that Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger started with his department 33 years ago this month. When he did, then Sheriff Merf Stalder told him that he was too short to go very far in his department. Stalder, who was drubbed by Pierce Clegg after two terms, was wrong ...
Bold thieves cut a lock and stole an entire cabin off its foundation, off Springdale, Wash. Owner Chris Hempel told the SR: "“We drove up to the cabin and the cabin was gone, it was just an empty hole where it used to sit.” Izzit just me -- or are thieves getting bolder and bolder?
Today's Cutline Contest features former Texas Rep. Ron Paul and his wife, Carol, on stage before their son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announces launches his presidential campaign. Tuesday's Cutline Contest winner -- Khaliela Wright.
Did you know you could win movie tickets or a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel simply by taking the Weekly News Quiz of The Spokesman-Review? Answer 10 questions about current events and put yourself in the running for Friday's drawings. You can take…
The Post Falls PD Day Shift was able to reunite a wandering, wet 15-month-old toddler with his sleeping mother after neighbors reported the unknown child by himself near a street. More below.
In today's Huckleberries blogosphere roundup: Kerri Thoreson offers a "circle of life" photo+The Slice isn't impressed with "Jersey Boys"+A Grip on Sports is bummed by that shutout thrown at the M's last night+Clarksville says there's strange things you can learn in an interview+IDEDNews wonders where all kindergartners have gone+more ...
The Idaho Legislature has passed several key school funding bills for Gov. Butch Otter to sign. But one of the less heralded education bills may have the longest-lasting and biggest effect on Idaho's at-risk students. A Twin Falls Times News editorial urges Gov. Otter to sign the bill that would expand alternative schooling to sixth-graders ...
On his Facebook wall, runner Kevin Richert of IDEDNews.org (and the former opinion editor of the Idaho Statesman) sums up his feelings re: today's guilty verdicts in the Boston Marathon bombing case with words he posted two years ago: "I'm sad and pissed off all over again."
Fresh turmeric root, the botanical cousin of ginger root, offers bright bold flavors when added to South Asian savory dishes, cabbage salads, fruit smoothies and other recipes, writes SReporter Mike Prager. You can read all about turmeric and savory dishes from India below. Do you enjoy tastes from India?
Tom Taggart has experienced a lot of change while serving in local public leadership positions in the past 25 years. Taggart, who has been the Lakeland Joint School District director of business and operations for the past 14 years and served as Kootenai County administrator...
Chief Lee White of Coeur d'Alene, shown in this photo by Keith Curry, is the subject of a featured article in the April issue of the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Living magazine. During a walk along the shoreline last month, Greg Lee & I encountered Chief White...
The House Transportation Committee has voted unanimously – 17-0 – to NOT concur in the Senate amendments to HB 312, the transportation funding bill. Asked if the House might request a conference committee, House Assistant Majority Leader Brent Crane, R-Nampa, said, “That’s a very real…
In view of the police shooting of Walter Lamer Scott in Charleston, S.C., HucksOnline commenter Khaliela Wright penned this political cartoon moments ago and emailed it to Huckleberries. Thoughts?
In a Facebook post, Cindy declares her distain for Grape Nuts, which I consider one of the more interesting breakfast cereals. It must have something to do with some people liking cats and others liking dogs. Do you like Grape Nuts? Or do you consider it eating dirt, as Cindy does? Which breakfast cereal is your fave?
Here's this AM's Scanner Traffic (17 items) includes ITD PSA that utility work will slow e/b I-90 traffic b/n Spokane St & H41/Post Falls until 2 p.m. today ...
A Boston jury has found Dzhkohar Tsarnaev guilty of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction in the Boston Marathon bombing case, which means Tsarnaev could face the death penalty. The jury is announcing the verdicts for the rest of the 30 counts against…
In this video, Walter Lamer Scott runs away from North Charleston, S.C., patrolman Michael Thomas Slager. Slager was charged with murder Tuesday, hours after law enforcement officials viewed the dramatic video that appears to show him shooting fleeing Scott several times in the back. Is murder the appropriate charge?
Jessica Robinson of Northwest Public Radio examines the carry-on politics of North Idaho legislators. She reports on where they sit on airplanes, who's part of the in-crowd clique, and why state Rep. Luke Malek of Coeur d'Alene is an outsider to the conservative hardliners who make up most of the North Idaho delegation ...
Legislation to end a special retirement perk for Idaho state lawmakers who take high-paying state jobs late in their careers had died without a hearing in a Senate committee. “It’s not scheduled for a hearing,” said Senate State Affairs Chairman Curt McKenzie, R-Nampa. “There’s nothing that I see on the horizon that’s going to change that.”
"I learned beading from my grandmother," said Sami Mitchell of Post Falls during a beading demonstration at North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday. April 6-11 is American Indian Heritage Week at NIC. Events include stick game on Wednesday from 2:30-3:30, a Native American...
Tuesday Poll: Almost 80% of Hucks Nation say Gov. Butch Otter botched his handling of the veto against "instant racing" repeal legislation. 140 of 179 respondents (78.21%) said the governor messed up with his veto. Only 28 of 179 (15.64%) said he handled the veto…
Just when you thought the silly notion of states managing federal lands had died in Idaho, U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch help breathe life back into it, at a federal level. And conservation and sportsmen groups are angry with Crapo for abandoning his collaborative approach to public lands issues ...
Rich Landers/Outdoors blog posts: "A high-flying soap opera is underway in Sandpoint. Ospreys have migrated back to the Idaho Panhandle to win female affections, breed and nest, and there's quite a show going at the platform under the unblinking eye of a web cam at Sandpoint’s War Memorial Field." Rich provides link to web cam below ...
In the Coeur d'Alene Press report of the City Council meeting Tuesday, Councilman Dan Gookin used a strange phrase in his irresponsible attempt to foist $845,100 in Front Avenue LID improvements on the entire city of Coeur d'Alene. He referred to the Front Avenue property owners as 'my residents.' Is Gookin declaring himself to be king?
In a comment here at HucksOnline, CDAIndependent opines that Benghazi isn't enough to sink Hillary Clinton's political aspirations. Also, CDAIndependent says that many Americans want to see a female president -- and that Hillary may benefit from the strong desire. What do you think?
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.