If you still harbor doubts that fanaticism is close to gaining the upper hand in Idaho's government, look no further than the current dust-up on the Idaho Land Board. Made up of Idaho's top state officials - Gov. C. L. (Butch) Otter, Attorney General Lawrence…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is calling for the city of Coeur d’Alene to remove hundreds of trees from its levee, which separates North Idaho College and the Fort Grounds neighborhood from Lake Coeur d’Alene. Rosenberry Drive, otherwise known as the “dike road,” draws…
Kyra Opp, 6, left and Lauren Moody, 6 tried very hard to not laugh during the "Try not to Laugh," game at Camp Kroc on Tuesday at The Kroc Center in Coeur d'Alene. The Kroc Center offers nine weeks of camp to choose from. (SR…
Carleen Ho poses with a Netflix movie she is picking up from her mail box in Palo Alto, Calif. Netflix provoked the ire of some of its 23 million subscribers Wednesday by raising its prices by as much as 60 percent for those who want…
The editor of Northwest Woman Magazine, published in Spokane, is wrapped up in an identity theft case. The Spokane County Prosecutor's Office is charging Charity Doyl (pictured in KXLY courtesy photo) with identity theft, theft and cyberstalking. Northwest Woman Magazine is published out of offices…
Sen. John McGee on Tuesday headed off a vote by the Canyon County GOP Central Committee on a resolution calling for an investigation of his “drunken actions” and a vote next month on whether he should be dismissed as county chairman. Ronalee Linsenmann of Nampa…
Robbing Peter to pay Paul has a price. Strapped school districts are aiming to skirt Idaho’s new school laws, which shift $137 million from salaries and other expenses to technology. The money is diverted over six years, amounting to about 2 percent of state support…
As a citizen, I'm concerned that new Coeur d'Alene School Board Trustees Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour are acting like dug-in ideologues from the get-go, refusing to vote on any motions at their first board meeting. As a journalist/blogger who thrives on nutty actions of…
A National Park ranger rescues a man who slid 300 feet in Crater Lake, Ore. Rangers and others at Crater Lake National Park spent about six hours rescuing a New York man who slid 300 feet into the remains of a volcano that forms the…
House Republicans Tuesday failed to overturn energy-efficiency standards that would have allowed Americans to continue buying cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs next year. Republicans had argued during debates Monday that the lighting-efficiency standards approved on a bipartisan basis in 2007 amounted to excess government…
6:09 p.m. A pack of Beagles running loose @ Dalton & Mountain Vista (Canfield Sports Complex). 6:02 p.m. ISP trooper's family member involved in 2-car non-injury crash @ H41 & Lancaster/Hayden. 5:44 p.m. Diane reports that white-over-gray pickup drove recklessly thru Diagonal construction zone. 5:33…
DiscoTech visits with campers during the ribbon-cutting kickoff to the 2011 STAR Discovery Bus tour. Rathdrum Mayor Vic Holmes and Rep. Bob Nonini spoke at the event. Discover Technology's STAR Discovery Bus will be at Rathdrum Days Saturday & Sunday and then on Monday. DiscoTech…
Mike Cox, of Sherman, Ill., positions a large fan and specially designed water hoses to cool his Standardbred trotting filly named Master Charge It, Monday at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ill. The National Weather Service reported Monday that heat advisories are in place…
The Ugly Fish menu is like a coffee-table art book, pages and pages of kaleidoscopic food pornography, wild fonts and playful layouts, all bound together with a thick textured maroon rubber cover. Those things are big and heavy, like a deluxe-edition Japanese import KISS triple…
KEA has been invited to participate in a City of Coeur d’Alene committee reviewing accessibility and other issues on Tubbs Hill. Yesterday, the committee got a first hand experience with accessibility concerns on a brief field trip to the east side of the Hill —…
Stormy Bradley, left, and her daughter Maya, 14, are seen in Atlanta on Monday. Maya is part of an anti-obesity ad campaign in Georgia. A provocative article in a prominent medical journal argues that parents of extremely obese children should lose custody because they can't…
Click below to read AP reporter John Miller's full report on today's state revenue news, which focuses on Gov. Butch Otter's decision to spend $15 million of the 2011 year-end surplus to reverse this year's decision to put off a scheduled $10 bump-up in the…
Here's a link to the full breakout of how much each Idaho school district will get in a one-time payout of discretionary funds, thanks to the state's higher-than-expected state tax revenues for the year; the payouts are required under federal maintenance-of-effort rules attached to earlier…
Authorities said Tuesday that a Southern California woman is in custody after she drugged her estranged husband, tied him to a bed, cut off his penis with a large knife and threw it down a garbage disposal. Garden Grove police Lt. Jeff Nightengale said that…
In this March 7, 2008, file photo, writer/producer Sherwood Schwartz receives a kiss from actresses Florence Henderson, left, and Dawn Wells ("Mary Ann," now living in Idaho) during a ceremony where Schwartz was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los…
The most violent job in Washington state isn't being a police officer or a security guard. It's working as a nurse's aide. Seattle public radio station KUOW-FM made that finding as part of an investigative series on workplace safety airing this week. The station found…
Even if leaders from the 13 counties got serious about secession, the U.S. Constitution says no new state can be formed without the consent of Congress and the state legislature. Gil Duran, a spokesman for California Gov. Jerry Brown, said Stone's proposal is "a supremely…
Henry Dean, new proprietor of the Buttonhook/Bayview has had to be creative as he awaits overdue issuance of a liquor license, according to Herb Huseland, Bay Views. Herb posts: "Checking with the authorities to make sure he was legal, (Dean) advertised BYOB. It turns out…
Three-year-old Margarita Yarova, of Spokane, hangs out with her mother, Kateryna Yarova, at Coeur d'Alene's City Beach on Monday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Scientists use road-kill deer, elk to lure bears/Associated Press Chickens peck out place in Canyon County/Mike Butts, Idaho Press-Tribune Opinion: Full disclosure…
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.
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