I have reserved 2 tickets apiece to the North Idaho Fair for the following Huckleberries: Spudbob, Nic, Eman, JimmyMac, JT, JohnA, Farm Gal, Spudbrother1 & gitrdun. I have a few more to give out. Tell us why you're worthy ...
To close National Dog Day, how about this AP photo: Haven Maddox, 6, gets to know Daisy, a four-year-old Goldendoodle owned by Richard and Beverly Fox, in Matter Park in Marion, Ind., on Tuesday. (Jeff Morehead(/The Chronicle-Tribune via AP)
SR correspondent Jill Barville takes the book critic who ripped Cindy's "War Bonds" to task: " In one scathing sentence on Goodreads a woman named Frances Fuller claimed that the book bored her so much she didn’t finish it. This made me ponder the nature of book reviews and the people who write them."
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (27 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic w/21 more items) includes male who wants to know rules for taking gun onto North Idaho College campus ...
The Cutline Contest today features two females reveling in tomato pulp at the annual "tomatina" tomato fight fiesta in Bunol, Spain. Tuesday Winner: YPMule.
Health insurance plans in Idaho will see rate increases next year, the AP reports, ranging from 7 percent to 26 percent. Idaho Department of Insurance Director Dean Cameron said he did not find any proposed rate changes to be unreasonable.
The Idaho Air National Guard deployed 40 members today to support firefighting efforts for the Tower Fire, which is nearing the Washington-Idaho line in North Idaho. The Guard members were placed on active duty on Aug. 26 at the order of Gov. Butch Otter; they will operate control points on roads leading into the fire area near Priest Lake.
"This stock market ride is brought to you by Timber Terror!" -- Gary Crooks, SR editorial board, tweet.
A former reporter who had been fired by a Virginia television station shot and killed two of the station’s journalists as they broadcast live on Wednesday morning, officials said, recording the act on video himself and then posting the video online. He later took his own life, officials said.
The USFS, Idaho Department of Lands and Coeur d'Alene Tribe provide all the latest info about wildfires burning throughout North Idaho. Also, you can read a separate report on the Tower Fire that started on the Colville National Forest and is visible from Priest Lake.
While covering the preliminary hearing for Jonathan Renfro this morning at the Kootenai County Jail courtroom, SReporter Scott Maben spotted this confederate flag poking from the bumper of a vehicle in a handicap spot in the parking lot.
State Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d'Alene, Frank Orzell & Co are behind a 12-page, multi-color brochure attacking ignite cda, at the North Idaho Fair today. Sims & Orzell, who were ringleaders in the failed effort to recall them mayor Sandi Bloem & three council members,...
SReporter Scott Maben filed a report after listening to this morning's proceedings in the shooting of Coeur d'Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore. Jonathan Daniel Renfro, 27, of Rathdrum is facing first-degree murder charges. The judge has allowed intro of Moore's body cam video over defense attorney objections.
Ancient trees in the Ross Creek Cedar Grove in NW Montana should survive the Sawtooth blaze. The fire is burning less than a mile to the SW of the 100-acre grove, which contains 500 to 1,000 year old western red cedar trees. Some of the trees in the grove are 8 feet in diameter, and were already mature whehen Columbus set sail for the New World.
The Slab Inn, the oldest continuing business in Post Falls, is for sale and in jeopardy of closing. Randy and Deb Berlin, who have owned the bar for the past 19 years, have the business for sale for $725,000. "It's been a struggle the past three years just keeping up with the bills and taxes and the clientele is declining," Deb said.
SReporter Scott Maben is in the courtroom this morning, listening to testimony in the slaying of Coeur d'Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore. He tweets re: testimony from the first officers who arrived on the scene -- Officers Pleger and Dunham.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (21 items) ...
In Tuesday's Poll, Hucks Nation said that it preferred Independent Bernie Sanders to the other two possible, high-profile choices to be the Democratic nominee for president. Today's Poll: What impact will Rep. Heather Scott's defense of Confederate flag as free-speech symbol have on her political career?
Headlines for Wednesday AM includes: Idaho Records, Kootenai man wins $200,000, I-90 lane closures set this week, Donations helping wildfire refugees, Otter seeks applicants for PUC post, Ancient Ross Creek Cedars should survive, School makes guns available to trained staff & Troy OKs levy, Wendell, Kamiah rejects theirs + more ...
"Just because I have to have coffee before meeting a friend for coffee doesn't mean I have a problem" -- Cindy, via Facebook. Question: Do you have he same caffeine addiction that Cindy has?
State Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, tells Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise that she was defending free speech when she displayed the American flag on her float at the Priest River Timber Days parade. But Tony Stewart of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations called the flag "a symbol of discrimination."
On her Facebook wall, Pecky Cox of the As the Lake Churns blog provides the latest info, from this morning, on the Tower Fire complex -- wildfires that are burning in the Priest Lake area ...
In his editorial this morning, Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune turns back to Jimmy Carter's "Malaise speech" of summer 1979. At the time, Carter told America what it didn't want to hear. Now that Carter's 90 and facing terminal health problems, Trillhaase applauds him for being candid, even when it wasn't popular.
Andrew Whipple, a public school teacher and Army veteran, has resigned his Precinct 70 committeeman post, saying he can't take the crazy resolutions and divisiveness of the local GOP any longer: "I really believe that many of the Republicans are brain washed in North Idaho and controlled by puppet strings at the hands of just a few individuals."
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.
