Lt. Stu Miller of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department has an answer for Beeranager, who wondered why the orange-and-white, no-wake buoys remain from the Diamond Cup hydroplane races on Lake Coeur d'Alene: "The Department of Lands and I have sent messages and called Diamond Cup…
Washington State University officials have some big decisions to make beyond budgets, raises and canceling classes before big games. Students abusing alcohol and their subsequent behavior have been part of the college community long enough. A university task force launched a high-priority search for solutions…
So I'm minding my own business in my office at home last night when the phone rings. I pick it up and a man's robo-voice wonders if he can ask two questions of me re: the Coeur d'Alene city elections this fall. I didn't hang…
It doesn't get much cozier than this. Education Networks of America would not have a five- to 15-year contract to install WiFi in Idaho's high schools were it not for state school Superintendent Tom Luna. Now that Luna is in trouble over the deal, ENA…
The Coeur d'Alene Press asked the three Coeur d'Alene mayoral candidates to provide their opinions on the city's nondiscrimination ordinance, which was passed earlier this summer (story here): Joe Kunka: "You're alienating everyone else. For the council to vote against the overwhelming majority of its…
Hayden Meadows Elementary second-grader Josey Damron uses an iPad in class Tuesday. Students, parents and teachers are embarking on a new curriculum emphasis: technology. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Some North Idaho fifth-graders sat in their school library earlier this week and chatted with students across…
Idaho’s education system faces a “stark reality,” state schools Superintendent Tom Luna told a special legislative committee this morning: “Kids are meeting our standards, but they aren’t the right standards any more.” The state has a “very high graduation rate, one of the highest in…
As we get ready to say so long to the summer of 2013, a burning question comes to mind. Whatever happened to Mike Fagan’s war on the bikini barista babe biz? To recap July’s hysteria … Complaints from constituents about some near-naked coffee sellers had…
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.
