The Idaho Transportation Department is warning drivers that work tonight to repair a water pipe on the Government Way Bridge in Couer d'Alene will reduce traffic on the bridge to one lane in each direction. The work is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. and…
I've been back and forth to the elections department today and saw several voters coming in to vote, hooray, hooray...the only problem was that about 2 out of 3 of them were in the county so they have no election to vote in! Those voters…
At Huckleberries Online, the commenters, bloggers and blurkers are reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book "Eat, Pray, Love" in preparation for our book-of-the-month club online discussion. Librarian Bette Ammon will lead the discussion, which begins Nov. 1. But first I need to introduce you to Parley Melvin…
Remember: HBO Gone Wi-Fi will interview Chief Longo live online Thursday morning, beginning at 7 o'clock.Jesse Tinsley/Spokesman-ReviewChief Wayne Longo, right, and officer Scott TenEyck, left, of the Coeur d'Alene Police play dodgeball with kids at the afternoon program run by CDA4Kids and the Boys and…
The shooting took place at about 6 p.m. near the Careywood Cutoff Road. David Howard, 22, of Bayview died minutes later. He had been shot once in the side of the chest with a .300 Winchester magnum rifle, according to Wolfinger. A third member of…
The bright new sign along Seltice Way advertising the new businesses in Riverstone keeps taunting me. When I'm driving to or from Coeur d'Alene, I see just a flash of "All you can eat tacos." It's a taco addicts dream come true and I know…
Larry Steagall/AP Photo, Kitsap SunA seagull rests on a light post while the moon glows in the dusk sky at Lions Park in East Bremerton, Wash., Tuesday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. While discussing pending layoffs at the newspaper this week, editor Steve Smith pointed…
In the post below, Managing Editor Gary Graham mentions that a veteran reporter monitors the SR blog numbers. I'm that veteran reporter. If you're interested, you can read the numbers of our Top 10 newspaper blogs for Tuesday below. (In recent days, Sportslink has regularly…
There's beauty all around and Post Falls' Tracey Brown became the fairest of them all on Saturday at Albertson College in Caldwell when she was crowned Miss Idaho USA. Tracey is no novice to all things sparkly and royal. She was Post Falls Junior Miss…
We had a spirited discussion at this morning's meeting about whether or not a feature story about Cabela's -- the new outdoor recreation/hunting superstore -- belongs on Page 1 tomorrow. Deputy City Editor Dan Hansen, an outdoor enthusiast and expert, and Assistant Photo Editor Liz…
Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Wayne Longo will be my guest for the weekly Huckleberries Gone Wi-Fi interview. It'll be an early-bird special, too -- 7 o'clock Thursday morning. Which means I'll have to go to bed at least by midnight tonight. And that I'll probably…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Chairman Alonzo Coby signed a fuel tax agreement this morning, the second Indian nation in Idaho to reach such an agreement before a Dec. 1 deadline set last year by state lawmakers. Like the earlier agreement between the…
Congressman Bill Sali continues to answer the questions you submitted to Huckleberries for an online interview Thursday. Sali spokesman Bill Sali sez the congressman is going through the last batch of your questions now:Kim O'Connor/Idaho StatesmanDavid Larsen: There seems to be concern over offering healthcare…
Tom Holman uses corn to lure deer to his property in northern Idaho, but don't blame him for the grizzly bears the food attracts. Blame the bears. Silly bears. Corn is for deer. You can also blame the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. In…
Hans Gutknecht/AP Photo, LA Daily NewsA fire fighter works the Meadow Ridge Fire in Newhall, Calif., Tuesday. Fires in California have burned across nearly 600 square miles, killing one person, destroying more than 1,800 homes and prompting the biggest evacuation in California history, from north…
Idaho Escapee: I hear the woods are more and more crowded with every hunting season.DeePee: A true fact, EscapeE. Not safe to walk your dog up King Street in Wallace this time of year. And it's not just the number of hunters. It's transplants from…
Item: Craig uses campaign funds to defend himself: U.S. senator paid advisers $23,000 since news of arrest at airport became public/Erika Bolstad, Idaho Statesman.More Info: Craig, who has said he has no plans to run for re-election, has $474,666 in his campaign account, according to…
Katrina, the Notes On A Napkin blogger, introduced Huckleberries Online to the term, "Dirty House Friends," this week. Dirty House Friends are ones you can invite on a moment's notice to watch "The Phantom of the Opera." And they come, says Katrina, "despite the fact…
I'm not going to sugar-coat this, HBOers. News of the pending layoffs has hit the newsroom hard. This is the third or fourth go-round for many of us. Survivors have seen many talented colleagues go out the door for no other reason than they were…
From time to time, old farts like me, like to dispense unsolicited advice. Today is one of those days. I first met Noah at the blogfest we held at Capone's last year. I felt then, and do now, that while Noah is one of the…
Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics, Muse You Can Use"So I've been working the last of the aspens as they turn colors and it was a gorgeous day," posts Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics, Muse You Can Use. "This particular stand of aspens has a lot of thick nasty underbrush…
Spokesman-Review File PhotoJake Booth is shown atop a power pole in this January 2005 photo taken at the Jake Stewart Lineman School in January 2005.A lineman with Kootenai Electric Cooperative was electrocuted this morning while working south of Coeur d’Alene. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department…
This is just the latest step in the industry's three-step waltz down the cellar stairs: 1) Newspapers lose readers and advertisers. 2) Newspapers eliminate reporters, photographers and editors. 3) Newspapers lose more readers and advertisers. There's more to it, of course. But all the while,…
As of today, there remains only two weeks until election day in the city of Coeur d'Alene. Except for yard signs and an occasional candidates' forum, there doesn't seem to be much going on out there. Even key City Hall and political sources can't figure…
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.