I'm taking years off my life as I guide the Goodship HucksOnline past the various shoals and mines that can sink her. I spend too much time at my office & home desk sitting, as I feed this beast. That study on the main thread…
A 2001 Toyota Camry is shown with a bundle of 27-foot long wooden poles driven through the car's windshield from a collision this morning on Mount Baker Highway near Bellingham, Wash., near Everson Goshen Road. The State Patrol reported that a 1994 Buick Roadmaster pulling…
Bar owners in downtown Coeur d’Alene are fed up with people urinating in public outside of their businesses. Owners say the problem escalates at night when people are out partying. They say some people head to back alleys and turn brick walls and dumpsters into…
Judge John Luster has handed down a split ruling on the Spokesman-Review motion to quash the subpoena filed by former Kootenai County GOP Central Committee chairwoman Tina Jacobson, seeking the identity of three commenters who post here at Huckleberries Online (Almost Innocent Bystander, Phaedrus &…
The first public art utility box has been in place in front of the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce building at Lakeside & Northwest Boulevard since Friday. Another will be unveiled soon, at 3rd and Sherman. 2 Kootenai County men injured in Washington crash/Press Post…
5:07 p.m. Caller reports dog in hot car w/windows rolled up in front of Michaels on Canfield/CdA. 5:01 p.m. Driver of silver car e/b on H53 from Rathdrum driving unsafely, speeding. 4:38 p.m. ISP officer is with driver of disabled white KIA on e/b I-90…
Bright sun on the water, bright sun on a sail, bright sun on much skin that’s exceedingly pale. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
You can listen to long-time Trustee Sid Fredrickson announce his resignation from the Coeur d'Alene School Board Monday afternoon, on this clip provided by Coeur d'Alene TV-19 and the Coeur d'Alene School District:
The rough draft of the Coeur d'Alene School Board meeting last night contained an interesting item: "Trustee (James) Purtee made the following motion: directing the superintendent to schedule a board workshop to discuss policy 517 (dress code) in accordance with policy 204 for the possibility…
Arpie: Today begins the time of house guests. My mom, sis, bro and sis in law come for a week, followed by a month long stint of a theatre kid from Chicago, With an inlaw onslaught the first week of August in the middle of…
Are you kidding me? That isn't a plum that you're seeing above. It's a huckleberry that Pecky Cox/As the Lake Churns spotted near the airport in Priest Lake country earlier today.
A 49-year-old Post Falls man was killed when his vehicle, fully loaded with firewood, rolled over him in Shoshone County on Saturday. Raymond Martin was found on Little Guard Peak Road off the Coeur d’Alene River Road and died of his injuries before he could…
Karl Kissner picked up a soot-covered cardboard box that had been under a wooden dollhouse in his grandfather's attic. Taking a look inside, he saw hundreds of baseball cards bundled with twine. They were smaller than the ones he was used to seeing. But some…
This may be the most famous photo of the many famous photos of the famous CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite. The grainy, black and white image was taken while Cronkite, in shirt sleeves, announced the awful news that John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shot and killed…
Eight suspected brothels were raided across the Spokane area today by a multi-agency prostitution task force. The businesses, mostly operating as day spas and massage parlors, are believed to have been front organizations for a widespread prostitution ring, authorities said. Six homes belonging to the…
On her Facebook wall, Cindy writes: "So a facebook friend posed this question: What are you wearing today? I replied. "Nightgown, but am interviewing a former superior court judge in a few. Guess I should change." I'm thinking white skirt-- but with me that's so…
Jockey Frankie Dettori leaps from ex-racehorse Monsignor, after carrying the Olympic Flame around the parade ring at Ascot Racecourse, southern England, Tuesday . (AP Photo/LOCOG, Gareth Fuller) Question: Have you ever literally jumped for joy?
11:30 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for July 9-10 here. 11:19 a.m. A Jack Buell chip truck is broken down on w/b I-90 on 4th of July Pass. 11:06 a.m. Resident in 700 block of Mt. Carroll/Dalton Gardens reports vandalism. 11:05 a.m. Resident…
Sid Frederickson (re: Update: Frederickson quits Coeur d'Alene School Board): The board chose a direction that did not include me in any leadership role. I wasn’t even nominated for chair or vice-chair. It was obvious that the board did not want to have me in…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that he is joining other governors who have already signaled their intention to resist implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as Obamacare. Gov. Butch Otter’s spokesman, John Hanion, told IdahoReporter.com that Otter is…
Jack Cornell, 5, Boise, and Reid Eichberg, 5, Boise, right, watch in fascination as a scale model train moves along a table at the Boise Depot, Sunday. The Union Pacific Railroad celebrated its 150th year with a stop at the Boise Depot and declaration marking…
The conservative Republican takeover of the Coeur d'Alene School Board has taken 13 months to complete. It began with the elections of Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour to the board in May 2011. And gathered steam when those two successfully sued to prevent appointee Wanda…
Monday Poll: Hucks Nation doesn't swim much. 27 of 52 respondents said they don't swim at all or only once a summer in a North Idaho lake. That's 17 of 52 (32.69%) who said once during the summer and 10 (19.25%) who said not at…
An 11-foot alligator that attacked a swimmer is pulled from the water after it was killed Monday evening in the Caloosahatchee River near Moore Haven, Fla. Fish and wildlife Commission (FWC) workers, Glades County Sheriff's deputies and trappers found and killed the gator, which had…
Item: Northern Lakes firefighter admits lewd conduct/David Cole, Press Item: Kootenai County bailiff pleads guilty to child sex abuse/David Cole, Press Question: A county bailiff? A firefighter? What's going on here?
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.
