We're still experiencing the calm before the storm of politics resumes in Idaho (a.k.a., the 2011 Legislature). As I mentioned here yesterday, veteran state Sen. Shawn Keough packed her car, snapped & tweeted a photo, and headed to Boise. I've been at this Coeur d'Alene…
Montana wildlife biologists, left to right, Erik Wenum, Kent Laudon, and John Vore cut away netting from a young bull moose that became tangled in a volley ball net along the shore of Bitterroot Lake in northwestern Montana. Agency biologists found the net wrapped around…
They report. You decide — if it's news. Fox News reporter Chad Pergram spotted former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig on Capitol Hill Wednesday, for the opening day of the 112th Congress. Wrote Pergram Wednesday: "Fox News stopped Craig and asked him why he was in…
After a year at Facebook, I think I have figured it out. Facebook is real life soap opera ... Or like an accident that is happening and even though you don’t want to look , you do. About 2 years ago, l actually I started…
Congressman Raul Labrador and his family are shown with new House Speaker John Boehner at Labrador's swearing-in ceremony earlier today in Washington, D.C. See story below. Raul Labrador sworn in with new Congress/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise Big million dollar dreams in small town Ephrata,…
Taku Takeuchi, from Japan, starts from the hill during a trial jump of the third station of the four hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria, on Monday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Top Cutlines: 1. During an insurance company photoshoot, photographers mis-understood…
KXLY tweets this photo of the 1:50 p.m. crash (see Scanner Traffic in drop-down box below) in which a semi trailer crashed off I-90 freeway into river 50 feet below at Wallace. KXLY slide show here. 5:40 p.m. 2 vehicles have slid down an embankment…
Coeur d'Alene Realtor Tom Torgerson earns a save today, for telling his Facebook friends about this old upright piano that was abandoned along the Gifted View Road in the new Fernan Lake Estates subdivision. That's John Thompson coming to the rescue above. John was retrieving…
Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today cosponsored the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. This bill would fully repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 that were signed into law last year.…
On Mike Perry's KHQ Twitter page, Mike tweets about a close encounter he had with a non-winner at the Exxon Jifi Stop in downtown Post Falls in today's $388M Mega Millions drawing. Mike saw the guy checking his Mega Millions ticket at the gas station…
House Speaker-designate John Boehner of Ohio wipes away tears as he waits to receive the gavel from outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington earlier today. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) On his Facebook…
On her Facebook page, Hucks Online sidekick Cindy posts that she's "contemplating unfriending those who received Kindles for Christmas." Which means she'd have to unfriend moi. I received a Kindle. And am now enjoying Donald Miller's "Through Painted Deserts." Got it for $10 or so…
In case you missed it — and I don’t know how you possibly could have — science is on the brink of solving one of the greatest threats to our children’s future: Cow burping. Methane emissions from livestock account for 18 percent of the world’s…
Idaho Lottery Director Jeff Anderson addresses the media during a news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 at the Idaho Lottery Commission in Boise. One of two winning Mega Millions tickets with a $380 million jackpot was sold in Post Falls and the other at…
I returned home after a meeting last night to find my wife fuming that "Glee" wasn't available on Fox 28 per usual. Seems the geniuses at Direct TV & Fox Network are spatting. Which means the channel (which was part of the programming that I…
Tom Torgerson spotted this abandoned oldtimer -- he guesses the piano is 80 years old -- in the new Fernan Lake Estates development on Gifted View Road. Tom posted this on his Facebook page. Question: Do you own/play a piano?
11:45 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Jan. 4-5 here. 11:29 a.m. Lawn chairs are lying on the n/b lanes near intersection of H95 & Prairie/Hayden. 11:26 a.m. A pipe has burst in lunch room of Post Falls Senior Center, 1215 E. 3rd…
Tuesday Poll: By slim margin, Hucks Nation believes the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks deserve to participate in the NFL playoffs. 68 of 137 respondents (49.6%) said the NFL West winners deserve to reach playoffs. 65 of 137 (47.5%) said they do not. 4 respondents were undecided.…
Rep. John Boehner was elected speaker of the House, sealing newfound Republican power-sharing in Congress and drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era at the helm. Cheers broke out among GOP lawmakers on the House floor on Wednesday as Boehner, a veteran lawmaker…
An FBI agent escorts Claude Lafayette Dallas, wearing orange, from Riverside County Jail in Riverside, Calif., on March 9,1987, en route to a hearing in San Bernardino, Calif. Dallas was captured in Riverside, after a year on the run following his 1986 escape from the…
Item: Winning tickets for Mega Millions jackpot sold in Post Falls, Ephrata/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise More Info: One of two $190 million winning tickets in the Mega Millions Lottery was sold in Post Falls, Idaho lottery officials announced today, splitting the big $380 million…
Starbucks new 40-year anniversary logo is seen on a cup at right. Other cups bearing the company's logo from over the years, from left, 1971, 1987, and 1992, are also shown. Story here. (AP Photo/Starbucks) Question: Which Starbucks logo do you like best?
Could driving a minivan, the ultimate embodiment of the suburban family vehicle, ever be considered cool? The automakers are trying mightily to persuade us. In marketing campaigns featuring heavy-metal theme songs, rapping parents, secret agents in cat masks, pyrotechnics and even Godzilla, minivan makers are…
Former congressional nominee Larry Grant says he's likely to run for Idaho Democratic Party chairman next month. Outgoing Chairman Keith Roark is not expected to seek another term. "What we Democrats need to do is get all back on the same page, dust ourselves off…
I believe that there exists a small haven of GOP malcontents in Kootenai County (CdA) that has NEVER gotten over the fact that Raul Labrador won the Primary over a candidate supported by them. The long knives are not yet obvious, but the tips of…
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.
