I am going to leave you today with another shot from our family archives. My great-grandfather, Steve Cramp, is far left. He was a driver for Coeur d'Alene Auto Freight Co. circa 1931. It's a little hard to read in the photo, but they served Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Kellogg, Wallace, Mullan and Burke. It has been a great day here at HBO.
We are all a bit jaundiced to news about college football programs going on NCAA probation, aren’t we? After all, it happens to a high-profile school about once a year. But when the same problems – recruiting violations, rule-breaking and the like – filter down to the high school level, that still catches our eye.
I've only had a couple jobs where I had to "clock in." Both were at grocery stores. Paul Turner/The Slice asks readers to finish this sentence: "If you never had a job that involved punching a clock, you …"
The beach and boat launch at Q'Emiln Park in Post Falls will open Friday at 9 a.m. According to a release from the City of Post Falls, Avista Utilities has announced river flows at the Post Falls Dam have dropped significantly so the spillgates at the can be closed. (Question: What's your fav place to swim?)
The Gem State is at the top of the list for job growth and Bannock County economic experts say it's because of a favorable climate for businesses in the state. Personal finance and business website Kiplinger highlighted Idaho and nine other states with employment gains ranging from 2.7 percent to 3.5 percent.
School's out for the summer, but more than a few parents and students will be keeping a close eye on the mail. On Tuesday, June 14, Idaho school officials will release statewide data indicating how high schoolers performed on their Scholastic Assessment Tests. (Question: Did you take the SAT?)
Park rangers navigated a dangerous landscape where boiling water flows beneath a fragile rock crust, searching Wednesday for a man who reportedly walked off a boardwalk and fell into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park. The man was presumed dead after a witness reported that a man in his early 20s had traveled 225 yards off the pathway.
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo announced last night that he’s secured final passage of “Trevor’s Law,” legislation named for a young Boise man who survived brain cancer, aimed at tracking childhood and adult cancer clusters nationwide. The bill passed the Senate last night on a unanimous voice vote as part of the Toxic Substances Control Act reform bill.
Nearly a decade ago, Pam Houser left a business she owned because she believed she could make a difference in her community. Now, the longtime CEO of the Post Falls Chamber of Commerce is doing it again. Heritage Health announced Tuesday that the organization has hired Houser to fill the role of development director.
Ninety-six years after women won the right to vote, a woman stands a chance of winning the White House. Hillary Clinton -- former first lady, former U.S. senator, and former secretary of state -- has become the first woman to capture a major-party nomination for president, taking another step in a journey that once seemed impossible.
A 4-year-old boy who doctors say suffered what’s known as an internal decapitation in a car crash in southwestern Idaho is expected to make a full recovery thanks to a good Samaritan who held his head steady. Killian Gonzalez and his mom, Brandy Gonzalez, were heading home to Nevada on May 22.
Federal taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $20,000 just to settle each refugee and asylum seeker, who are then immediately eligible for cash welfare, food stamps, housing and medical aid, according to a new report on the "refugee industry." The report provided federal budget figures showing that the government spends $19,884 on each refugee.
The Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying a body found late last week in the Spokane River. The man was found across from Peaceful Valley on Saturday near 2209 W. Falls Ave. The man was bald, 147 pounds and had a gray mustache and beard and a tattoo on his left shoulder that says “Judy."
Lawmakers in the nation’s capital approved a $15-an-hour minimum wage on Tuesday, joining numerous other cities and the states of California and New York in mandating pay raises for retail, restaurant and service-industry workers. The D.C. Council unanimously approved the wage increase, and Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser has pledged to sign it.
A student attended his high school prom with his favorite video game, New York Magazine reports. Chris Burwell, a senior in Garden Grove, California, took Nintendo's "Super Smash Bros. Melee" after he was inspired by a similar situation he saw online. (Question: Who (or what) was your prom date?)
Betsy Russell/SR reports: "Idaho 2nd District GOP Congressman Mike Simpson has joined Sen. Mike Crapo in decrying Donald Trump’s comments that a federal judge can’t be fair in his Trump University fraud case because he is of Mexican heritage." View Simpson's statement over at Eye On Boise.
A Spokane woman said she found a creature in her yard that sent chills down her spine. The creature she spotted was a rattlesnake. Experts with SCRAPS said it is not that uncommon to see a rattler in the Spokane area, especially in remote areas. (Question: Have you ever had an encounter with a rattlesnake?)
The CDA Press is reporting on the Cascadia Rising disaster drill as if it has really happened. Brian Walker reports: The earthquake and tsunami that rocked the West Coast on Tuesday morning is expected to have a powerful ripple effect on North Idaho. (Question: Agree or disagree with this style of reporting?)
Hillary Clinton took a lot of flak on Monday after a report surfaced that the presidential candidate wore a Giorgio Armani jacket worth more than $12,000 during a speech in April about inequality. (Question: What's the most you've spent on clothes?)
Leon Duce already feels at home in North Idaho as Rathdrum's new city administrator. Duce, who has worked the past 19 years at the Association of Idaho Cities in Boise and grew up in Kellogg, has hit the ground running at Rathdrum amid budget workshop season. "Rathdrum brings me closer to home," the 45-year-old said.
Litterbug is a term that seems too tame and harmless to describe the buttheads who deposit garbage in public vault toilets. The collective insolence of "litterpigs" at the Liberty Lake public access has forced the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to spend more than three times the normal fee for vault toilet service and pumping.
Downtown businesses thought Tuesday morning's power outage was for the birds. Employees at several businesses in the area of Second and Lakeside rushed outside after they heard a loud boom at 9:03 a.m. and the power went out. (Question: What's the biggest nuisance animals have caused you?)
Charges against an identity theft suspect held at the Kootenai County jail continue to pile up as the list of potential victims in Idaho and Washington grows. Chaundra L. Stallings, 40, of Spokane, now faces facing an additional 18 charges. (Question: Have been the victim of identity theft?)
Coeur d’Alene Police are investigating a body found on the banks of the Spokane River near the Highway 95 bridge around noon Tuesday. The man’s identity and cause of death will be released after an autopsy. No further information is being immediately released./Nina Culver, SR.
The AP is warning its reporters to stay vigilant after several received harassing messages from Bernie Sanders supporters. The AP's vice president for global security said some reporters received angry emails, social media messages and phone calls after the AP declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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.
