Skylar Rogers, 10, finds a splash of cool water at Borah Pool Tuesday in Boise. Hot summer temperatures dominated the day in Boise reaching and tying the record at 106 degrees. (AP/Statesman photo: Darin Oswald) Idaho Reports/Sherry Adkins, SR Official kills wolf associated with attacks…
Tuesday Poll: Only 29% (27 of 93 respondents) of Hucks Nation say they never experience road rage. Of those who do experience road rage, 34.41% (32 of 93) say they do a couple of times a year; 15.05% (14 of 93) say they do a…
A member of the audience returns to his seat after asking Congressman Raul Labrador (background) a question. Phantom Photographer, who took this photo for Huckleberries Online, wasn't sure what the T-shirt message meant. Question: Which one of your personal T-shirt messages do you enjoy/embrace most?
After winding through tree-lined roads or perhaps approaching by boat through ice-blue waters of Priest Lake, you’d be excused for not knowing that inside of Elkins Resort’s rustic log-cabin-style lodge is one of North Idaho’s culinary gems. In operation on the west side of the…
Clint Eastwood, a part-time Idaho resident for decades, helped GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney raise more than $2 million last Friday in a visit to Idaho's Wood River Valley. Tickets ranged from $1,000 for a reception at the Sun Valley Company's River Run Lodge and…
Frank VanderSloot is a very wealthy Idaho businessman. He is also an ardent supporter of Mitt Romney. Like many wealthy people, Frank VanderSloot has donated a lot of money to candidates he supports, including Mitt Romney. His donation in support of Mitt Romney was noted…
As this newspaper has documented several times over recent years, Coeur d'Alene city employees are among the best paid workers around. Add to their ample average earnings a benefits package that exceeds anything the local private sector can offer, and city employees are the envy…
The Kootenai County commissioners approved 2-1 on Tuesday a resolution to place an alternative form of county government on the ballot this November. The resolution makes official the commissioners' announcement earlier this year to offer voters an option to reorganize county government, something all three…
Congressman Raul Labrador fields a question from the audience during a town hall meeting at North Idaho College Tuesday night. (Phantom Photographer photo for Huckleberries Online) Reflecting on difficulties faced in his career as a doctor, Norman Leffler had a dark prediction on Tuesday night.…
Reagan Repub (re: Raul, Jeff & NPR): My interview focused on the KCRR name being swiped, not really about a “war” among Republicans. Actually (to the chagrin of many of you) right now it seems we Republicans are getting along pretty well. I have talked…
Significant increases in pump prices in the Midwest — from 38 to 49 cents a gallon, depending on where you live — have propelled the national average price up a quarter in the past month, according to AAA Idaho. The national average price is up…
We've truly hit the dog days of summer on this blog. I'm scraping barrel's bottom to come up with topics for the Front Page. Isn't there some elected official that we can try to recall this month? Or a Kootenai County Republicn hornet's nest that…
United States' Foluke Akinradewo, left, celebrates with teammates after defeating the Dominican Republic in three sets in a women's quarterfinal volleyball match at the 2012 Summer Olympics earlier today in London. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
“We pretend that meritocracies — our favorite word for modern competitions — are contests of equals. They aren’t. Some people can stay close only by making painful choices, and, as the standards of competition rise, those choices grow more painful still” -- Malcolm Gladwell. John…
4:55 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Aug. 6-7 here. 4:37 p.m. 15YO girl lost consciousness in house behind Rosie's fireworks on Compton/PF. 4:35 p.m. Woman reports returning home @ 18128 H41 to find male stealing son's vehicle. 4:28 p.m. No one hurt…
Ruthie Johnson, long-time aide to the late U.S. Sen. Jim McClure, prompts a laugh from Congressman Raul Labrador after Labrador's speech to the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans luncheon at Templins today. (Phantom Photographer photo) Motorcycle deaths up in Idaho/AP Hecla won't buy U.S. Silver Corp/Becky…
My father, who died of Alzheimer’s disease in 1996 at age 77, lived the last year of his life in an Alzheimer’s unit in a Spokane-area nursing home. The facility’s excellent staffers, including my sister, a nurse who oversaw the unit, were trying new ideas…
Congressman Raul Labrador speaks to supporters after his speech to the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans at a noon luncheon Templin's Resort in Post Falls. Meanwhile Jessica Robinson of National Public Radio interviews Jeff Ward, former president of the local Reagan Republicans and current president of…
Also on Facebook, Cindy writes: "Finished filling out my primary ballot. Once again I was disappointed that my favorite candidate, None Of The Above, didn't make the cut." I would really, really like to see a "None of the Above" option on my election ballot.…
Do we have a right to expect our Presidents to be paragons of integrity? If so we're being failed by both the presidential candidates. Let's look at the current 'swiftboating' of Romney on his tax returns. Many have advised him to release them. Having had…
Is this some sort of mythological hydra monster spotted today in the Inland Northwest. Nah, it's just Cindy taking a photo of a chipped toenail. She post on Facebook: "Have to interrupt this work day on account of a toe emergency. I simply cannot be…
Marvin Hamlisch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who imbued his movie and Broadway scores with pizazz and panache and often found his songs in the upper reaches of the pop charts, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 68 and lived in New York. He…
Ken Edgett, Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) principal investigator, Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, describes the first color view of the north wall and rim of Gale Crater where NASA's rover Curiosity landed Sunday night, during a news briefing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Allegiant Air, a discount airline that serves mostly small to midsized cities, will begin weekly nonstop flights from Spokane to Honolulu in February. The once-per-week nonstop flight will leave on Saturday mornings and return the following Friday evening. The last time Spokane passengers had nonstops…
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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