AM Headlines for Wednesday includes: Idaho Records/Coeur d'Alene Press. Leach, Peterson top Washington employee pay/Spin Control, Uzbek refugee convicted of terrorism conspiracy/Eye on Boise, Supreme Court vacates murder verdict in St. Maries case/Press, and Firefighting costs crippling USFS multi-purpose mission/EOBoise
A plurality of Hucks Nation said Gov. Butch Otter's political philosophy can be summed up in three words "whatever IACI wants." Today's Poll: Is emailgate a serious enough controversy to derail Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes?
A 19-year-old woman was taken to a Seattle hospital with life-threatening injuries after crashing her car into an oncoming semi truck late Wednesday near Sagle. Casey N. Thomas of Coeur d’Alene was driving south on U.S. Highway 95 shortly before midnight when her Jeep Grand…
Storytime is always a popular activity at Spokane Public Libraries – especially during the summer months when kids flock to sign up for the summer reading program. But on Aug. 4, a larger crowd than usual filled the South Hill Library. More than 150 kids...
Democrats are worried that the furor surrounding Hillary Clinton’s private email server will be prolonged and intensified after her sudden move to hand it over to the FBI. The Clinton campaign’s decision to give up the server and a thumb drive containing backup copies of…
I was surprised a week ago when noon walking partner Greg Lee told me that he had never hiked Tubbs Hill. So I suggested that we change our lunch hour route to include a hike around Tubbs Wednesday. I have never been to Heyburn Park or attended the Festival at Sandpoint. Question: What haven't you done in all your years in North Idaho?
An accidental release of chlorine gas Wednesday morning from a cylinder at Pacific Steel and Recycling in east Spokane sickened more than a dozen people there and at a nearby city building, police and fire officials said. Eight of those people were hospitalized in critical...
Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will go to court Oct. 7 to argue that he shouldn’t have to repay nearly a quarter-million dollars in campaign funds he used in connection with his 2007 arrest in a Minnesota airport bathroom sex sting, Roll Call reports today.…
A Spokane veterinarian is applying some heat in a warm-hearted way to people who hike or bike with their dogs in hot summer weather. “It can kill the dog,” said Dr. Joseph Harari. While he specializes in vet orthopedics and surgery, he also owns a dog and likes to take it hiking. But sometime Harari chooses to leave Benny home for his own good.
Local governments across-the-board are preparing to give pay increases to employees -- 2% cost-of-living raises at city of Coeur d'Alene and 3% raises for Kootenai County employees. Meanwhile, teachers in Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls are near agreements for proposed wage hikes.
In a Lewiston Tribune editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase comments that Superintendent Linda Clark of the West Ada County School District is qualified for many jobs in the state. But she has a built-in conflict-of-interest as Gov. Butch Otter's pick to serve on the Idaho Board of Education.
I'm 3/4ths of the way through ripping out another of those landscape projects that made since years ago. A few years back, I tore out all the mugho pines, bird nest pines & barberry bushes in the front yard. Last year, I tore out all...
Lifeguard Michael DuBois keeps an eye on the beach at Burbank Park in Pittsfield, Mass., today. The lifeguard program in Pittsfield, Mass., keeps an eye on swimmers five days a week, Wednesday through Sunday. Question: Anyone out there ever serve as a lifeguard? Want to tell us about it?
2 beerfests are on tap this weekend, according to Rick Bonino/On Tap: 3rd annual Ales for the Trail fundraiser at McEuen Park from 2-8 p.m. Saturday ($30 admission includes 6 ounce drink tickets) & Silver Mountain’s Brewsfest at the Kellogg-area ski resort from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday. Rick provides more details below.
If I'm reading the Kootenai County press release correctly, commissioners have approved a 3% pay raise for county workers. But they're letting department heads decide which workers should get more than 3% and which should get less. That's part of a nearly $89M budget proposal for the county in FY2016, a $1.5M budget increase.
The Cutline Contest for Wednesday features Japanese children dressed up as police officers in Tokyo. Tuesday Winner -- DFO.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (20 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link with 20 more items) includes report of injury accident in Post Falls in which male partly impaled by truss shortly after 5 p.m. ...
In his On Tap blog, Rick Bonino reports that Tricksters on Schreiber Way is tweaking its IPA (India Pale Ale) lineup again. You can read more below. BTW, are you interested in what's happening on the local brew pub scene? Rick does a good job of covering it. And I easily can run more of his coverage.
The daily roundup of HucksOnline blogosphere links includes Post Falls elected officials, staff & others touring Greensferry overpass construction site + Would we call them Miracle M's?/A Grip on Sports, In defense of Megyn Kelly/Faithful Geek, Harrowing Cobain documentary opens Friday/7 Blog & Special guests at 'War Bonds' reading/War Bonds ...
The man killed in a shootout with Bonner County deputies and a Sandpoint police officer has been identified as Casey George Alarcon, 34, of Sandpoint. According to a KCSD news release, Alarcon fired 2 shots at the officers before he was fatally wounded by return fire from one of the deputies.
Hisashi Iwakuma became the fifth pitcher in Seattle Mariners history to throw a no-hitter today, when he blanked the Baltimore Orioles 3-0 this afternoon. Boxscore here.
Walking partner Greg Lee & I hiked around Tubbs Hill today, for our regular lunch time walk. I decided this morning to hike Tubbs Hill because Greg told me that he's never walked around it in the 30-plus years that he's lived in Coeur d'Alene....
The top-earning outside public relations consultant contracted by the state of Idaho is a veteran political pitchman and well-connected Republican who holds a $4,000-a-month contract working about 10 hours a week with the state treasurer’s office. Mike Tracy's total billings in the last five years exceed $250,000. Thoughts?
Jon Alexander, the former Twin Falls Times News opinion editor, writes: "Mainstream Republicans must finally disavow the increasingly dangerous radicals who've infiltrated the Party of Lincoln before it's too late. Heavily armed right-wing vigilantes rolled into Ferguson, Missouri, Tuesday, stoking already inflamed racial tensions."
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.
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