On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson writes of this photo: "We went to Twin Lakes for dinner and there was a wedding reception at the club house. Three darling little flower girls in buttermint yellow fluff were twirling around. The littlest girl tired of the…
Idaho governors used to take the word of candidates for key boards and commissions. If they said they were independent, that would do the trick. Not anymore. After the Idaho Republican Party won a federal lawsuit overturning Idaho’s open primary system on constitutional grounds, the…
Fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A is the target of protests and boycotts across the country. The company’s CEO recently angered gay rights activists with statements opposed to same sex marriage and his financial support for anti-gay marriage groups. Chick-fil-A is a privately owned company but what…
During the recent Primary Season the KCRR was attacked by the opponents of our endorsed candidates in an attempt to steal our name -- the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans. While this attempt to intimidate us into not using our name in support of our endorsed…
Segways aren't exactly new -- even to North Idaho. Compared to the old Ford on the right, however, the device is brand-spanking new. Duane Rasmussen provides this photo from the Pinehurst classic car show & parade over the weekend.
Some of the oldest, most outdated schools in Coeur d’Alene will be renovated over the next three years if voters in the Coeur d’Alene School District approve a $32.7 million bond measure this month. It’s one of three school measures on the Aug. 28 ballot…
A Whitman County man who bragged about being involved with racist taco-truck protests in Kootenai County has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for unlawful gun possession. Jeremiah Daniel “J.D.” Hop's lawyer, Roger Peven, asked for him to receive between 15 and 21…
Prominent Coeur d'Alene architect R.G. "Bob" Nelson, who was known for his work designing the Hagadone Corp. headquarters building and The Coeur d'Alene Resort, died Thursday. He was 76. Kootenai County Commissioner Jai Nelson, his daughter, said his favorite project always was the one he…
The man who allegedly murdered six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee yesterday, identified in media reports as Wade Michael Page, was a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band. In 2010, Page, then the leader of the…
Kylee Kennedy, 12, of Shelton, Wash., took in the sights at Coeur d'Alene's Street Fair and Art on th Green on Friday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Question: What did you buy at Art on the Green or the Street Fair over the weekend?
Per our first-ever weekly poll, 70.83 percent of the voters — keep in mind, it doesn’t allow the same IP address to vote twice — believe the the 2011 Coeur d’Alene Vikings would dispatch the 2006 Lake City Timberwolves. Both were recognized nationally and were…
Weekend Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation say the Coeur d'Alene Police Department is handling crime/problems created by transients well. 62 of 139 respondents (44.6%) took that position. 49 of 139 respondents (36.25%) said local police weren't doing a good job handling such problems. 28…
11:30 a.m. Undisclosed vandalism reported at Bryan Elementary playground, 1135 10th/CdA. 11:26 a.m. Bikers in bicycling event causing hazard by running red lights @ 3rd & Harrison/CdA. 11:25 a.m. Undisclosed vandalism reported at Coeur d'Alene Homes, 624 W. Harrison/CdA. 11:02 a.m. Car theft reported at…
A Web site called Truth About IB (International Baccalaureate) is already celebrating the demise of the controversial program and applauding the role of school activist Duncan Koler and his wife in bringing about its expected demise: "Bit by bit (the Kolers) : "Bit by bit,…
Coeur d’Alene Police Detectives found and arrested two people suspected in recent mail thefts and check cashing: Michael Graham Wilkins, 28, of Coeur d’Alene, and Lacey Lynn Fugate, 17, who is currently wanted for being a runaway from Douglas County, Ore. They were taken into…
Think you're paying too much for a pack of Marlboros? Don't like the cost of a six-pack of Budweiser? That fifth of Jack Daniels priced just too high? Then Lewiston has a candidate just for you. Daniel Santiago (pictured) is his name. Reports the Idaho…
I heard a scientist on television say that the human brain is about the same consistency as tofu. That explains a lot about the limits of human thinking. Too many of us have tofu for brains. We prove the limits of the human brain when…
Duane Rasmussen, who provided this photograph of the Pinehurst car show and parade for HucksOnline, reports: The parade route turned left. The kids where having trouble making the turn by themselves. It was definitely a kid friendly environment. The town fathers in Pinehurst allow candy…
The Barry Goldwater campaign for presidency appears to be going well at the annual Pinehurst Car Show over the weekend. Duane Rasmussen and his handy camera were on hand to capture this shot. Question: If Barry Goldwater was alive today, would you prefer him over…
It’s fair to criticize Idaho leaders for just starting the process of establishing a health insurance exchange when so many other states, including Washington, are much further along. It’s tempting to let gambling lawmakers face the consequences of putting all their chips on “Supreme Court…
The senator went to the bathroom on official government business. It sounds like the first line in a joke, a juvenile one at that. But all of us who have spent the past five years watching the farce that is the Larry Craig case know…
Shooting. Punching. Killing. If you were to judge us by what we find entertaining, you would conclude these are our holy trinity. The things we believe in more than any other things; the things we will watch and watch and watch and watch some more;…
Over time, most of us have finally shed our youthful ambitions and come to the mature realization that we will never be Olympic stars. I know I stopped dreaming of being a world class track champion and started acting my age a few weeks ago.…
Camping is an experience that’s been redefined regularly, especially in the past century since the first RVs started wheeling out into the American countryside. Just a few decades ago, most people would define camping as the heading out to sleep under the stars, sheltered perhaps…
Sandpoint city attorney Scot Campbell walked along downtown Sandpoint on Wednesday. He drafted Sandpoint's new non-discrimination ordinance for sexual orientation and gender identity. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce President Kate McAlister wasn’t expecting it when a woman in her 60s walked up…
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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