Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh says sheriff hopeful Adam Johnson's probation status on a felony charge makes him ineligible to file a declaration of candidacy. McHugh sent the opinion Wednesday to Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes. Here's a copy of the opinion/Coeur d'Alene Press Online.…
In his editorial today, Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune harkens back 18 years when the Idaho Republican Party was led by such stalwarts as Phil Batt (pictured), Tom Boyd, Mike Simpson, Bruce Newcomb, the late Jerry Twiggs, Mike Crapo, and Jim Risch. Trillhaase appreciated…
The numbers resemble the parameters for wild turkey hunts — but it’s the 2012 Idaho Panhandle wolf hunting and trapping proposals that have just been released by Jim Hayden, Idaho Fish and Game Department regional wildlife manager in Coeur d’Alene: Hunting Bag limit, five wolves…
Many of you have showed your support for the University of Idaho by signing the flagship petition at change.org. Yesterday the petition reached more than 5,000 signatures. Congratulations! Though the petition reached its halfway mark, we still have work ahead of us. Milford Terrell, the…
From left, Alli Ferrell, 10, and cousin Christian Murray, 12, sit on the front porch, as Lindsey Murray, 15, of Harrisburg, Ill., paints "for sale fixer upper" on the side of the home of their grandmother, Sharon Murray, 61, after a tornado destroyed the house…
11:52 a.m. Female @ Dakota & Sunview/Hayden reports her daughter-in-law's mom won't leave. 11:48 a.m. Ronald reports water bike stolen from Channel & Bridge Lake/Twin Lakes. 11:33 a.m. Michael has questions re: ordinances dealing with barking dogs. 11:18 a.m. Motorists reports a dead deer hanging…
Tuesday Poll: 84 of 139 respondents (60.43%) supported the 31-30 decision by the Kootenai County GOP CC to disinvite controversial former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack from speaking at the local Lincoln Day Dinner March 24. 35 of 139 respondents (25.18%) disagreed with the decision made…
Montana’s chief federal judge apologized Wednesday for forwarding an email that contained a joke involving bestiality and President Barack Obama’s mother, saying he did so because he dislikes the president and not because he’s racist. Judge Richard Cebull, of Billings, forwarded the email from his…
In yet another public relations embarrassment for the Mormon Church, a Utah researcher has discovered that slain Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl was posthumously baptized last year in a serious breach of church protocol. According to records, Pearl was baptized “by proxy” last summer in the…
Shoshone Conservative: BSU, on the other hand, was an entirely unnecessary additional State University built solely for the purpose to spare Treasure Valley denizens from having to dirty themselves by leaving the Great State of Ada for their higher education. Then, after turning their community…
Corilynne Smith waved to the bus driver as her son Ayden Smith, 5, trekked through the snow in Coeur d'Alene this morning. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Montana wolf population up 15% in 2011/AP Santorum visits Spokane Valley this afternoon/SR Identity theft…
A Secret Service agent, left, stands by as Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks at Belmont University on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn. Santorum will be in Spokane Valley today. See below. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, of Pennsylvania, will hold a rally…
The flap continues in California over the Fish and Game Commission president who came to Idaho for a legally guided cougar hunt. His home-state anti-hunting creeps are wailing for him to resign since cougars can't be hunted in California. Forty state legislators sent him a…
First of all, Tom Trail scoring a hearing on his medical marijuana bill has to count for more than some ho-hum thing like House Republicans approving another tax giveaway. So if we're going to set up this fantasy Legislature league, the league commissioner needs the…
A judge on Wednesday blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing U.S. tobacco companies to put large graphic images on their cigarette packages later this year to show the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit lighting up. U.S. District Judge Richard…
Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday. He was 43. Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief and in-house counsel for Breitbart's website, Breitbart.com, posted a statement…
Coeur d'Alene Resort partner Jerry Jaeger walks past the new koi aquarium in the remodeled lobby Wednesday, the opening day of the two-month ground floor remodel, the first since 1986. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley) SR photo slide show of Coeur d'Alene Resort remodel here Spokesman-Review…
Regardless of how you feel about the political positions he took, you have to feel for former District 10 Sen. John McGee (pictured) and his family. His once-promising political career is apparently over, his job could be at risk and his family has had to…
Words you don’t often see in a Clark column: Great job, Spokane City Council! I couldn’t be prouder or more impressed by the council’s unanimous decision to just say NYET to Brad Thoma, the ex-Spokane cop who was fired following an off-duty drunken-driving arrest that…
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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