No, that's not Wayne Hoffman of Idaho Freedom Foundation/Action blowing his top as election results rolled in from the Idaho Panhandle. It's Mount St. Helens blowing its top, 36 years ago today. Question: How did the eruption affect you back in 1980?
Kurt Lundblad was fired as Coeur d'Alene boys basketball coach today. Greg Lee/SR prep writer is working on the story.
I'm heading out early today. I'm bushed, after staying up until 1 AM today, hoping in vain to get the final results from Bonner County in that Senate District 1 race won by Sen. Shawn Keough. I promise to be back here bright-eyed and bushy-tailed...
Sam Taylor, a Coeur d'Alene native whom many of you on this blog know, has been hired as the deputy city administrator for the Lake City. Taylor worked for five Northwest newspapers before landing a job as city administrator in Ferndale, Wash. He comes to Coeur d'Alene from Moro Bay, Calif., where he served as deputy city manager.
In today's Cutline Contest, actress Sonia Braga goofs around at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, France. Tuesday Winner: Phaedrus.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (11 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 11 more items) ...
Write-in candidate Stephen Howlett has defeated Bob Vickaryous to become the Democratic nominee for the District 1 House seat now held by Rep. Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay; the two will face off in November. Howlett received 408 write-in votes, exceeding the 392 cast for Vickaryous, whose name was on the ballot.
With a couple of close legislative races around the state, the question arises of possible recounts. Betsie Kimbrough, state elections director in the Idaho Secretary of State’s office, has this explanation: “We don’t have automatic recounts.” But for the closest races those a free recount is available.
It was 35-years ago this month when Mount St. Helens exploded on May 18, 1980, dropping a blanket of volcanic ash on Spokane, Wash. and neighboring communities. Spokesman-Review’s Jim Kershner narrates a look back at the first few days after the cataclysmic eruption.
In Shoshone County, Wallace Street Journal columnist David Bond is delighted with the outcome of the legislative races in the GOP primary contests -- and elsewhere. However, he worries that North Idaho voters, fresh from showing the uber-cons the door, will go back to their couches again & ignore a possible re-invasion in the future.
A former fighter pilot took down Rep. Shannon McMillan in Tuesday's primary election, while a rancher was on his way to ending Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll's re-election hopes in Idaho's sprawling 7th Legislative District. Priscilla Giddings coasted to victory over McMillan on the Republican side of the ballot.
In her daily travels along the waterfront, Walkabout spotted several examples of vandalism on Tubbs Hill. In the photo above, someone appears to be preparing a campfire pit on Tubbs Hill. Other examples of vandalism caught Walkabout's eye and camera.
Mayor Steve Widmyer of Coeur d'Alene will launch the memorial campaign for the late Sgt. Greg Moore and all fallen heroes across the nation. Widmyer will make the announcement at McEuen Park at 2 p.m. Thursday. McEuen Park will be the site of a water feature honoring Sgt. Moore and the others.
Beaujolais 184 (a string quartet: members Cathyanne Nonini, Joyce Torgerson, Scott Grunsted and John Wheeler) is set to play the dinner show at The Fedora from 6:30 until 8:30 this evening. The quartet's music is eclectic, ranging from Beatles to Beethoven, Rock & Roll to Rhumbas, "Ode to Joy" to "Over the Rainbow."
Kevin Richart, of Idaho Education News, picks his winners and losers from the GOP primary elections Tuesday. Among the winners: Joint Finance & Appropriations Committee continuity. Among the losers: Legislative Hardliners and the Idaho Freedom Foundation/Action.
The North Idaho College Board of Trustees announced today the selection of Richard MacLennan, Ed.D. as the new president of NIC. MacLennan is currently the present of Garrett College in Maryland, a position he has held since 2010.
A man adds olive oil to a pizza as Neapolitan pizza makers attempt to break the world record for the longest pizza ever made, by making a two kilometers margherita (16 inch wide) pizza along the city waterfront, in Naples, Italy, Wednesday. Question: What type of pizza do you like best?
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (18 items & counting) including reports of someone in a Washington vehicle possibly mooning a bus load of kids on I-90/Post Falls area.
Idaho County Commissioner Jim Chmelik was another uber-conservative official turned out of office by north-central Idaho voters. Chmelik lost a GOP primary contest to former Cottonwood mayor Denis Duman. Chmelik is the registered agent for a group that's trying to legally challenge federal ownership of public land.
An encounter with a long-time neighbor Tuesday PM leads me to believe that more Democrats and Independents are voting in the local Idaho GOP primary contests than ever before. Did scorched-earth Republicans encourage the cross-over by closing the popular open primary? I think so.
The daily roundup of AM Headlines includes: Voters oust 7 GOP lawmakers/Eye on Boise, Here's what November races will look like/Press, Editorial: Time to thrive in North Idaho/CdA Press, Intruder allegedly crashes into garage, arrested/Press, Woman reports threat at gunpoint in downtown CdA/Press + more ...
In Tuesday's poll, Hucks Nation came close to picking the percentage of registered voters -- 22.61% -- who cast ballots in Kootenai County Tuesday. A plurality thought 10-20% would cast ballots. Today's Poll: On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being ecstatic), how pleased were you with the results of the contested North Idaho primary contests?
After each election cycle, Huckleberries Online asks readers to decide who were the biggest winners & losers of that particular election. So we'll do the same thing again today. Who were the biggest winners and losers in the 2016 Idaho primary contests?
The Modern Theater will be proposing the details of a new midtown “place-making arts district” to the board of ignite cda this afternoon. Modern Theater board member Adam Graves said he is hesitant to discuss the project without presenting the details of the proposal with the urban renewal board first.
A tax levy proposal to support seven community libraries was nixed by voters during Tuesday's primary election. A total of 5,264 (50.06 percent) voted in favor and 5,252 (49.94 percent) against. The proposal needed 55 percent voter approval to pass.
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.
