I envy all of you Hucks Online readers who have a chance to be outside today, when temperatures are expected to hit 77 degrees. I'm stuck at Huckleberries HQ, feeding the beast. But, I suppose, I'll be free Saturday to greet the next round of…
Golfer Michael Bradley, top center, and his fellow golfer Louis Oosthuizen watch as golfing fan Norman-Gerard Merizzi, center, is helped up by Noel Zelnik, left, Michael Bradley's caddie and an unidentified course volunteer just after Bradley's club landed in the water after losing his grip…
Tomorrow night, America will know if Mike Huckabee will announce for President. What do I think he will do? Since I’ve learned of the Governor’s decision, I’ve had a lot of mixed feelings. I’m a strong Huckabee supporter. I’ve given to Huckpac and I have,…
5:58 p.m. Caruso's rep in Prairie Shopping Center/Hayden reports suspicious man in bathroom. 5:28 p.m. Injury crash reported @ 1199 Bandy Road/Priest River, off Kelso Lake Loop. 5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for May 12-13 here. 4:58 p.m. A mother, her son,…
A bison rests in front of the Yellowstone RV Park sign in Gardiner, Mont., just outside Yellowstone National Park this week. (AP Photo/Livingston Enterprise, Liz Kearney) Trooper shoots runaway pig at Spokane Valley gas station/Rob Kauder, KXLY Few, Stewart highlight tribal leadership speakers/Coeur d'Alene Press…
Thai people scramble over barriers in search of sacred rice seeds following royal ploughing ceremonies earlier today in Bangkok, Thailand. The seeds are believed to bring good luck. The annual ceremony marks the beginning of the rice growing season. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Sakchai…
Now that temperatures finally are above 70 (for a day or two), the animal abuse calls are beginning to roll in. This afternoon, for example, someone called 911 to report that a dog is locked in a blue van @ Hayden WalMart. Now I'm not…
Starting Saturday and running through July 14, registered anglers have a chance to win valuable prizes by catching tagged fish in designated waters in 19 states, including Washington and Idaho. Cabela's, partnering with the Outdoor Channel, has just announced that Sprague Lake and Potholes Reservoir…
"I told my daughter-in-law last night that my yard decorations are originals," posts Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "Nobody else would put together such an odd combination. I think that pretty much reflects my personality." You can read the rest of her comment here. And: You can…
At the Friday Democrats luncheon, Dan Malcolm pitched his candidacy for the Lakes Highway District. He told how he was raised in Wallace, but his dad, a school administrator, moved the family to Cottonwood, Idaho. Dan remembers complaining that he wanted to go back to…
Ashton Kutcher (pictured in AP file photo) is not gnarly. That simple fact makes the news that he'll be taking Charlie Sheen's place on "Two and a Half Men" highly intriguing. It also helps capture the degree to which Kutcher strikes a contrast image-wise to…
About 900 graduated this morning with their Associate of Arts /Associate of Science/Associate of Applied Science degrees from North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene. Here, graduates celebrate by tossing their graduation caps in the air. (NIC Press Room photo: Stacy Hudson) Question: Did you attend…
If using coupons is an extreme sport, Tammilee Tillison (pictured) just made the all-star team. Tillison – a Medical Lake woman who became a coupon demon after losing her job – was featured this week on the latest reality show, “Extreme Couponing.” In the episode,…
Tara Rowe/Political Game lists 10 books she'd like to read this summer, including this Top 3: 1. James Patterson: 10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club Series) available on Amazon 2. John W. Dean: Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches available…
Members of the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office investigate the death of two adult women and two small children today in Ammon. Authorities say five people are dead after a man shot two women, two young children and then himself in a house in eastern Idaho.…
A "big red boxer" jumped Gov. Brian Schweitzer's border collie, Jag (pictured in photo from Montana governor's Web site), on Wednesday evening during a walk on Montana State University's campus, the state's top official confirmed Thursday. Schweitzer said he was walking Jag southeast of the…
12:09 p.m. Driver of a white Toyota Tundra hit a residence & a power pole @ Corbin Hill & Derting/Athol before driving off on Rimrock toward Coeur d'Alene. 12:07 p.m. A dead horse is reportedly lying in a field in 5900 block of 17th/Dalton Gardens.…
CBE backer Duncan Koler says Aryan rumor false/Hucks Online (5:13 p.m. Thursday) Local bloggers, social media users and callers to the Press newsroom spent time Thursday speculating and asking questions about a website promoting Zone 2 school trustee candidate, Tom Hamilton (shown in photo from…
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, left, and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, are seen in this undated video tape released Wednesday. For a man on the run, Osama bin laden seemed to do very little running. Instead, he chose to spend long stretches _ possibly years…
The Kootenai County Democratic Club will host an address by Tony Stewart (pictured), a co-founder of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations more than 30 years ago, on Friday, May 13 at Noon. The luncheon will be held at the Iron Horse Restaurant…
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (right), he of the bolo tie, has been swinging the decisive veto club with abandon over the last few days. As of a couple of days ago Schweitzer, a Democrat, had vetoed more than 50 bills approved by the Republican controlled…
Item: North Idaho College graduates ceremonies are underway this morning Kelsey Park has never been much of a “girly girl.” She spent most of her childhood years tinkering with things, taking objects apart and figuring out how to put them back together again and she…
Pecky Cox published this photo taken from along Highway 57 in Priest Lake area ... and wonders if that animal in the right corner is a grizzly bear. What do you think?
Thursday Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation believes Kellogg High softballers who stripped on teammate on a team bus should be suspended from school. 113 of 242 respondents (46.69%) voted that way in a two-day poll. 62 of 242 (25.62%) said the girls should be…
Bruce Jones lives in landlocked Rathdrum but that isn't stopping him from following his dreams below the surface of the ocean."When I was in high school I would sketch the underwater habitats and write out letters to Jacques Cousteau," he said.Jones built his first submarine…
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.
