I doubt that we can top Tuesday for breaking news at HucksOnline, what with Arfee owner's suit and the evolving drama around the Hitching Post. But I'm here for you, if news does break. Per usual. Here's today's Wild Card ...
Young visitors Anton, 5, and Emma, 9, grimaces in front of "Untitled" by Anish Kapoor as part of the FIAC, the International Fair of Contemporary Art, during the presentation to the press, in Paris, Wednesday. The fair opens Oct. 23 and ends on Oct. 26.…
Top Comment -- JohnA: I had a startling conversation with a friend today, who was angry at Obama for his perceived inaction against ISIS, which now possibly has gotten Canadian soldiers killed in Ottawa. When I said "Okay, you don't like Obama, so you must…
On the Election Central blog of the Idaho Statesman, Rocky Barker writes: Outgoing Republican Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa has refused endorsement requests from both candidates, Republican Lawerence Denney and Democrat Holli Woodings. So today’s posting on Idaho Conservation League Executive Director Rick Johnson’s…
Facts: Chinese artist Kong Ning wears her 10-meter long wedding gown creation made of hundreds of face masks in Beijing, China. Kong created the gown to draw hoping her act will call on more actions to fight the pollution which has shrouded the Chinese capital.…
5:22 p.m. Officer: "He's cop shopping trying to get something from his ex-wife." 5:16 p.m. 3 suspicious people are hanging out @ 9900 block of N Atlas Road, Hayden. 5:04 p.m. City of Coeur d'Alene employee is dealing with citizen dispute (4:53 item) at McEuen…
Madelynn Taylor, 74, a U.S. Navy veteran, looks at a 2011 photo of herself (in red) with her wife Jean Mixner, as she talks about her lawsuit seeking the right to have her deceased wife interred with her at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in…
Actress Renee Zellweger attends Giorgio Armani's "One Night Only New York” fashion show in New York. Zellweger says she looks different because she’s “living a different, happy, more fulfilling life.” The 45-year-old Oscar winner issued a statement to People magazine late Tuesday, after she became…
The city of Coeur d’Alene is pleased to announce the selection of Hilary Anderson as its new community planning director. Anderson, currently the planning and economic development manager for the city of Post Falls, will assume her new position on Nov. 24. For the past…
In an editorial endorsement of Democrat Holli Woodings (pictured), the Idaho Press-Tribune (Nampa-Caldwell) opines: "The office of Idaho secretary of state should not be partisan, and although its two most recent office holders, Pete Cenarrusa and Ben Ysursa, both technically had the “R” after their…
Off road, up an incline, in some shady, pine needle-covered place along the outer edges of the Coeur d’Alene National Forest, there’s edible gold. It pushes through the duff on the forest floor like half-hidden treasure, apricot-colored and ready for harvesting – that is, if…
Sherri Ybarra (pictured), the Republican candidate for Idaho state superintendent of schools, has claimed throughout her campaign that she was working on her doctorate in education at the University of Idaho and would receive it in August, but the university reports today that she instead…
Democrat Holli Woodings ad in her Secretary of State campaign. In an unusual move for an Idaho Secretary of State candidate, Holli Woodings is running a statewide TV commercial touting her candidacy and her commitment to making it easier to vote in Idaho; the ad…
Digger (RE: Thumbing his way through Coeur d'Alene history): One of my favorite ways to pass the time when we're slow at work is to look through the old funeral records (we have them going back to 1895) and see how things have changed over…
At CBSports.com, Sam Vecenie posts: "For the past 15 seasons, the Gonzaga Bulldogs has been the class of the West Coast Conference. Sure, occasionally a few schools have had strong cycles of players that have allowed them to compete, and maybe even steal a championship.…
Without the split-second decision of an 11-year-old girl, a day by the pool last month would have led to tragedy for the Love family. Josephine Love, of Coeur d'Alene, told The Press that she took her family to enjoy a day at a friend's pool.…
Here's another of the viewtiful autumn photos taken by Marianne Love/Slight Detour during a trip along Rapid Lightning Creek Road in Bonner County recently. More photos here.
Tuesday Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation wants the city of Coeur d'Alene to recognize the religious exemption of the Hitching Post, as a means to calm down the controversy over the owners' gay marriage stand. 112 of 255 respondents (43.92%) took that stand. 40…
11:46 a.m. Burnt food in oven triggered fire alarm @ N Ironwood Court/CdA. 11:18 a.m. 85YO male is suffering general weakness @ Creekside Inn, 240 E. Kathleen/CdA. 10:53 a.m. 2 children from same family haven't been @ Canfield Middle School for 4 days. 10:46 a.m.…
Declo High School senior Sierra Norman studies at her Albion home. The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho filed a complaint against Cassia County School District in central Idaho Monday, accusing it of sexually and religiously discriminating against Norman in denying her a chance to…
In the Coeur d'Alene Press today, Pastor Chuck Wilkes of Hayden's True North Church offered a possible solution to the controversy involving Lake City's Hitching Post: "The simple solution for the Hitching Post is to withdraw from operating as an agent of the state and…
“She has said that she will carry on and move forward Tom Luna’s recommended budget, as well as move into the office right next door to him the day after the election so he could train her on how to do the job. If you…
At KXLY, Alex LeFriec reports: Priest River parents are anxious after a group of teachers traveled to Texas, raising fears about their children being exposed to Ebola, a baseless concern according to school officials since those staffers never closer than 150 miles from Dallas. When…
In the conservative American Spectator magazine, reporter Amanda C. Elliott pens a lengthy profile on Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador, beginning: "Washington is a city full of dueling egos, a kind of bubble of exaggerated self-awareness. But it’s where Raul Labrador, the forty-something immigration lawyer-turned-Congressman, has…
The candidates for state superintendent found another hot topic besides voting records and plagiarism to spar over. Does the Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee support Sherri Ybarra? Ybarra, a Republican from Mountain Home, and Jana Jones, a Democrat from Idaho Falls, met for at least their…
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.
