A BLM mine closure team leader from Salmon, Idaho, holds a monitor showing a live picture taken by a video camera that was lowered Saturday into the Evolution Mine in North Idaho. The shiny image on the monitor screen is believed to be ice at…
Calling him "The People's Pope," Time magazine on Wednesday named Pope Francis its Person of the Year. "For pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets, for committing the world's largest church to confronting its deepest needs, and for balancing judgment with…
Gov. Butch Otter’s proposed budget could come up short of funding state schools superintendent Tom Luna’s spending plan for K-12. That would mean the governor’s budget would not fully fund ideas from the governor’s own education reform task force. Otter teased out a few details…
A grass-roots group of religious and human rights activists is hoping Idaho will join 19 other states next year and raise its minimum wage above the federal standard. The Raise Idaho coalition is circulating a ballot initiative calling for a 35 percent increase in Idaho's…
Hagadone Hospitality Co. has the go-ahead to remove trees, realign the Centennial Trail and make other changes in front of the Coeur d’Alene Resort early next year. The Coeur d’Alene Planning Commission voted Tuesday night to approve the company’s proposal to modify the planned unit…
Gonzaga's Kyle Dranginis, front, drives past a West Virginia defender during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday in Morgantown, W.Va. Story here. (AP Photo/Andrew Ferguson) Question: Maybe there's more to the 2013-14 Zags than we thought, hunh?
Idaho motorists are finally getting a break at the gas pump. AAA Idaho reports that gasoline prices have dipped below the national average. The state’s 26-cent drop in prices in the last 30 days is also the nation’s biggest price decline. The state’s average price…
A Hayden resident was visited last weekend by a grinch on a mission to steal Christmas. Don Fisher began decorating his home for the holidays the day after Halloween. Every weekend he was outside stringing lights and setting up various decorations. Last weekend, Fisher braved…
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.
