Kootenai County sheriff hopeful Adam Johnson is speaking out now after Prosecutor Barry McHugh said he was ineligible to run for office. Johnson, 27, plans on filing as a candidate for sheriff. In the last few years he's had several run-ins with the law. In…
Former Kootenai County Clerk, Dan English, will make a formal announcement about his candidacy for Legislative District 2, Position B, the seat currently held by Representative Phil Hart. He will make his brief announcement remarks Wednesday, March 7st at 10:30 a.m. He will make them…
Lynn Everson, needle exchange coordinator for the Spokane Regional Health District, oversees the exchange as a participant drops off two of his 200 syringes into a dispenser at the health building. The number of needle exchanges logged by the Spokane Regional Health District is unprecedented…
Monday Poll: 82% of Hucks Nation oppose the $35.7 million tax cut for prosperous Idahoans that easily passed the Idaho House, including 50% who said "hell no." 83 of 167 respondents (49.7%) said "hell no" to the tax cut while 54 of 167 respondents (32.34%)…
The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations’ Board of Directors announced today their full support of Idaho SB 1358 known as the anti-bullying bill to protect Idaho’s school children. The Board indicated that although it is already against Idaho law to bully another student…
Louise White, right, 81 from Newport, R.I., is presented a check for $336 million by Gerald Aubin, left, director of the state's lottery, and Gov. Lincoln Chafee, center, at Rhode Island Lottery headquarters in Cranston, R.I., Tuesday. White won last month's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot,…
The final two over-legal loads of oil field equipment at the Port of Lewiston in Idaho are scheduled to hit the road Tuesday night, weather permitting. Imperial Oil spokesman Pius Rolheiser says the company moved three loads on Sunday night and plan to move two…
The conventional wisdom holds that Paul must win somewhere – and fast – or risk running out of steam as the primary campaign grinds on. He would seem to have a far shot in three states with a GOP caucus today – North Dakota, Alaska…
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul spent part of Super Tuesday Eve at the University of Idaho, where he spoke to a crowd about twice as big as the one that attended a similar Feb. 17 rally in Moscow. More than 2,000 people…
Judge Roberto Castenega of Argentina, samples the aroma of one of the entries in the Semi-soft Goat's Milk Cheese category during the opening day of the World Championship Cheese Contest at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wis. on Monday. More than 2,500 entries…
Idaho Republicans play a role in Super Tuesday this evening as they gather throughout the state for presidential caucuses. It will be a new experience for many. For decades, the Idaho GOP has used the results of a presidential primary to award delegates to the…
It’s been 15 years in the making, but finally someone took it all away from the Gonzaga Bulldogs. All right, not all of it. Not all the history – not the charmed rise from mom-and-pop store to national franchise, not the Bracketville thrills, not the…
While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in Ohio battling for a win there, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter visited Coeur d'Alene to stump for Romney ahead of today's Idaho caucus. Otter on Monday laid out the reasons for his endorsing Romney to a crowd of…
Saint Mary's Jorden Page, left, passes the ball off against Gonzaga's Elias Harris in the first half during the NCAA West Coast Conference tournament championship basketball game tonight in Las Vegas. St. Mary's edged Gonzaga in overtime 78-74. Story here. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Gotta admit that the Idaho GOP, which closed our primaries and lives in mortal fear that a "RINO" might get elected to office, did one thing right in its manipulation of the old system. By jettisoning the presidential primary in favor of a caucus system…
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, signs an autograph for Bonner County commisioner Cornell Rasor after a town hall meeting at the Bonner County Fairgrounds todayin Sandpoint. (AP photo: Matt Mills McKnight) Question: Have you ever asked anyone for an autograph? Who?
Gov. Butch Otter will be in Coeur d'Alene at 5:15 p.m. Monday for a meet-and-greet sponsored by the Romney campaign on the eve of Idaho's Super Tuesday caucus, according to a news release from the Romney campaign. The free event is at the Coeur d’Alene…
So I turned 40 today. 40 is a lot of years. 40 years worth of love and laughter and memories combined with some trials and mistakes to make me who I am today. 40 years spent loving and being loved by parents who chose to…
Dominic Brauer of Sandpoint holds a sign outside the Bonner County Fairgrounds before a town hall meeting with Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, Monday in Sandpoint. Story here. (AP Photo/Matt Mills McKnight) Idaho's Super Tuesday caucus guide/KTVB Dan English preparing to run for…
5:24 p.m. Reckless driver w/child unsecure in back of white Ford Explorer takes I-90/NW Blvd exit. 5:09 p.m. Disorderly male in brown Carhart jacket threatens UPS clerk @ Golf Course & Ramsey/CdA before leaving in vehicle with bleach-blond female. 4:43 p.m. Caller complains about noise…
Matt Mills McKnight, who's a Twitter & Facebook Friend, snapped these photos of Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, for the Associated Press today. Here, Paul tours the manufacturing facility at Quest Aircraft Company in Sandpoint. (AP Photo/Matt Mills McKnight) Blessed Sunday: Turning 40/A…
Sho-Con: Yes, Rammell polled well in Idaho and Bonner Counties when he ran for Governor, but they weren’t voting FOR him, so much as they were voting AGAINST Otter. Also, that was BEFORE his two arrests, and his bizarre “sovereign citizen” line that he used…
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, waits backstage with wife, Carol before a town hall meeting at the Bonner County Fairgrounds Monday in Sandpoint. (AP Photo/Matt Mills McKnight) GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul drew a crowd of 1,200 supporters to a noon rally at…
When Hellgate High School opens its doors next fall, nearly 100 students will begin a course of study that will test their minds in a way they’ve never been tested before. Similarly, the debut of the International Baccalaureate Programme – commonly known as IB –…
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.