The Idaho Fish and Game Commission raised the bag limit on wolves and set spring chinook fishing seasons at its meeting in Boise Thursday. Commissioners approved a department proposal to raise the wolf hunting bag limit to five per calendar year, and the trapping limit…
A new technical education campus is not even done being built yet, but hundreds of people are already vying for a spot inside the classroom. The Kootenai Technical Education Campus in Rathdrum offers a two-year program for local high school students. There are eight programs…
Huckleberries hears ... that Duane Rasmussen & other local Republicans who oppose Richard Mack's speaking engagement at the Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday aren't going down without a fight. Rasmussen, who was the emcee for this morning's program featuring legislative candidate Mark Fisher, told the Pachyderms…
Mac Jarman, 5, of La Mesa, Calif., reacts as a Giant Owl butterfly perches on him at San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Butterfly Jungle on Friday. The three-week festival of flutter opens on Saturday and runs through April 15. Guests can use identification cards in…
... That the plans for the hydroplane races are more advanced than expected. Retired Coeur d'Alene Mines CEO Dennis Wheeler is heading up a committee to bring the hydros back that includes Jim Addis, Brad Hagadone and others heavy hitters. The goal is to get…
5:23 p.m. Possible drunk woman w/grocery bag almost stumbled into traffic on H41 & I-90/PF. 5:19 p.m. Mother reports daughter has run away from East Grand Tour Drive/Hayden. 5:09 p.m. 3 drunks are hanging out @ Government Way & Hayden, w/female unable to stand up.…
Markita Brammer of Kendrick shows Julietta School kindergartners Hunter Taylor, Carter Clemenhagen and Kaitlynn Needham how to milk a cow Thursday in Juliaetta. (AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Kyle Mills) Gun sales up dramatically in Spokane/KHQ Richert: What Chuck Winder failed to mention in newsletter/IS Officers in…
Apparently, state Rep. Phil Hart has been busy writing opinion pieces this past week, defending his stands with the Internal Revenue Service and the Idaho Tax Commission. Below, in this thread, you will find his comments re: my use of the description "tax-dodging" to describe…
"I am ready, these plants are ready, and the robins are ready ... So Spring where art thou?" posts Cis/From A Simple Mind. "Actually I guess I should be thankful we do have bare ground once in a while. After all we have had a…
Ironworkers connect steel beams above the 93rd floor of One World Trade Center, Friday in New York, The tower, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, will reach 104 floors and is scheduled for completion in 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Wrestling with the mere idea of a person being shot repeatedly by multiple individuals in close proximity of homes and families is not ordinarily a topic society discusses at the breakfast table, and for obvious reasons. It’s morbid, barbaric and discerningly incomprehensible taken in sane…
Things have been quiet on the ultrasound front yesterday and today after Wednesday's tumult, with no House hearing scheduled on the controversial Senate-passed bill to require Idaho women who want an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound, but talk in the halls of the Statehouse…
The Kootenai County Board of County Commissioners will conduct interviews for the vacant School District 271 trustee position. The interviews will take place at the county administration building Room 1 at 5 p.m. The commission is accepting questions from the public for the candidates until…
... At corner of Lincoln Way & Walnut (three-way stop that curves on H95), your Huckleberry Hound spotted the first yard sign of the 2012 local GOPrimary, a red-white-and-blue one belonging to Larry Spencer. It reads: "Elect Spencer ... because big government won't fix itself."…
A child molestation suspect who has been missing since escaping a manhunt in North Idaho in December was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles. Nathaniel Robert Howell, 32, was booked into jail in Los Angeles County about 3:52 p.m. Thursday, according to online records. Howell had…
State Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, sent this response to HucksOnline moments ago re: a Parting Shot item that appeared in my Sunday column March 4: "When a friend handed me a recent copy of David Oliveria's Sunday Spokesman-Review column, it became clear what Thomas Jefferson…
A new international Starbucks boycott campaign is under way over the company’s support of legalizing same sex marriage. The National Organization for Marriage has launched the website dumpstarbucks.com, where people can sign a petition against the company or learn how to contact Starbucks directly. "Starbucks…
Forget springing forward. Earlier this week, the Legislature printed a bill to exempt Idaho from observing daylight saving time. Will it pass? Not a chance. But bill sponsor Rep. Wendy Jaquet, D-Ketchum, hopes the legislation will help propel a national discussion on getting rid of…
Opal Cosby lifts her legs as she rides through puddles on Ironwood Drive in Hartselle, Ala., following a rainy Thursday afternoon. The setting sun lit the puddles with a red light at the end of the day. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Gary Cosby Jr.) Question:…
Noonish: Male outside disabled vehicle w/flashers flashing on e/b I-90 @ NW Blvd/CdA. 11:51 a.m. Caller reports trespassing @ Coeur d'Alene Community Storage on Fruitland/CdA. 11:47 a.m. 2 callers report reckless driver in red 1993 Nissan Ultima left I-90 @ H41 onto e/b Seltice Way/PF.…
After getting her hair styled, Mary Borden, left, gets her makeup done by Kara McCollum, right, at the "Let Your Crown Shine" event at Northern Quest Casino Hotel Thursday. The YWCA and several sponsors put on the event for 100 women who got hair and…
Huckleberries has received the minutes of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee meeting of Feb. 28, which includes of the official roll call on a motion by Jeff Ward to disinvite Richard Mack from speaking at the county Lincoln Day Dinner. The motion passed 31-30…
Chairman Norm Semanko Statement on Two Year Anniversary of President Obama signing his massive government takeover of health care into law: “Despite the president’s promises, ObamaCare has left Idaho undeniably worse off. Health care costs will continue to skyrocket into the foreseeable future, and Americans…
Thursday Poll: Hucks Nation doesn't support state Sen. Steve Vick's legislation that would require a two-thirds vote of the Idaho Legislature to raise taxes or fees. 68 of 128 respondents (53.13%) oppose the bill. 59 of 128 (46.09%) support it. One respondent was undecided. Today's…
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.
