AM Headlines today includes Bunker Hill to reopen+Otter signs teacher pay bill+WSU medical school for Spokane moves ahead+Otter faces 'instant racing' deadline+Accused child killer in Sandpoint waives extradition+Spokane Valley man charged with Post Falls City Hall gas thefts+more ...
Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon said the price will be high for his Election Department staff to conduct a special presidential primary next March. At the request of the Idaho GOP and legislative Republicans, Idaho taxpayers will pick up the $2M tab to conduct the primary, so Idaho R's can have a say in the 2016 prez picking process ...
Lewiston Trib editorial asks: "... Imagine the governor defending his state's attempt to permit discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people wasn't Indiana's Mike Pence. What if the governor who unsuccessfully evaded a half-dozen of "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos' questions about the law was Idaho's Butch Otter."
Both sides are standing their ground as a lawsuit filed against the city of Coeur d'Alene by the Hitching Post continues through U.S. District Court. Lawyers with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian rights legal advocacy organization, filed the suit in October on behalf of…
Seems former Coeur d'Alene School Board Chairman Tom Hamilton is on a speaking tour of the local Republican precincts as he enters his final months on the school board. Now he's headed to the Panhandle Pachyderm Club to explain how conservative hardliners gained control of the school board. He already has spoken to the Reagan Republicans ...
A Palouse family is still adjusting to a new normal in the wake of their son's death near Colfax that resulted from his texting while driving. Lisa and Jim Thompson have spoken out about the dangers of texting and driving to area teen-agers. Now, they have unveiled a sign at the site of their son's death that will warn others, too ...
The House State Affairs Committee has reversed itself and voted 12-4 in favor of SB 1146a, the bill to allow Idaho parents whose children suffer from an intractable form of epilepsy that causes frequent, prolonged, life-threatening seizures, to treat their kids with cannabidiol oil, a...
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.
