The Washington State Department of Ecology has fined BNSF Railway $86,000 for placing creosote-treated railroad ties and other materials from maintenance projects in Whatcom and Skagit county water bodies. The department's water quality program manager, Heather Bartlett, said Tuesday that BNSF has "repeatedly disregarded water...
The daily roundup of Huckleberries Online blogosphere links includes: Endless war party/Fort Boise, The end of the dog days/The Slice, Hey, Ma, you won't believe this/Simple Mind, Lightning strikes ignite new Idaho fires/Outdoors, Friday's Openers: Spies, rappers & bit of jest/7 Blog, Coeur d'Con to feature director Cook/Coeur d'Alene Today+more...
It should come as no surprise that the majority of Idahoans, according to a poll from Idaho Politics Weekly, consider the Republican Party to be -- and should be -- conservative.
Heavily armed civilians with a group known as the Oath Keepers arrive in Ferguson, Mo., early Tuesday. The far-right anti-government activists, largely consists of past and present members of the military, first responders and police officers. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the...
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office has identified the woman killed in the Rathdrum Prairie accident Monday afternoon, as 33YO Nancy B. Colon, of Shoreline, Wash. She was killed when a vehicle driven by her husband crashed into a motorhome at Pleasant View Road and Prairie Avenue. More below.
Over 28,000 people showed up to hear presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speak in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, setting the record for the largest crowd to attend one of his campaign events, and in the 2016 presidential race thus far. (Question: Should Hillary fear Bernie Sanders?)
Online columnist David Bond writes: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s massive spill of arsenic-laden contaminants into Colorado’s Animas River (literally, from the Spanish, River of Souls) a week ago has all the makings of a slow-speed softball pitched at this relentless critic of EPA’s hubris, bullying and unscientific (nonsense)."
A portion of Fourth Street in Coeur d'Alene will remain closed for another week while city employees wrap up construction. Work began last week at the intersection of Fourth Street and Montana Avenue. Coeur d'Alene Street Superintendent Tim Martin told The Press Monday that the...
Another sign that summer is getting long in tooth. Friday will be the last day for lifeguards at the Q'emiln Park lifeguards.
On his SR Outdoors blog, Rich Landers provides his thoughts & a note from USFS asking huckleberry pickers to be gentle with the beloved bushes. The USFS news release first: Due to the dry season recreational pickers are finding fewer berries than in recent years.…
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (11 items & counting) includes 16YO boy who has suffered head injury in accident on Hayden Lake ...
Idaho will run out of 208-prefix phone numbers in about two years. (Colleague Alison Boggs suggests we have some fun with the pending change: "Matching letters to the numbers on the phone, suggest a new area code for Idaho. We'll start it off... GEM (436)? GOP (467)? BSU (278)? Your turn ...")
In Monday's poll, a supermajority of Hucks Nation said that health insurance should be a constitutional right. Today's Poll: How would you describe Gov. Butch Otter's political philosophy?
AM Headlines for Tuesday includes struggle for balance for water levels between Priest River and Priest Lake + Idaho Records/Coeur d'Alene Press, Afghan family finds refuge in Spokane/SR, Man charged with shooting girlfriend/Press, Woman survives Fernan Saddle plunge/Press, Officials ID man killed in diving accident/Press + more ...
KXLY reports: "Construction on 4th Street in Coeur d'Alene is putting a damper on businesses, but these aren't just any businesses, they support local non-profits and schools. There are several thrift shops along 4th Street and some say business is down 66-percent because of road construction which came ... in the heart of the ... tourism season."
The Bard of Sherman Avenue offers a rhyme re: all the money the state of Idaho wastes defending unlawful elements of the state Constitution, such as the recently torpedoed Ag-Gag law.
In an editorial, the Idaho Falls Post Register points out how Gov. Butch Otter has reacted to the push from the Far Right to become the most conservative governor in the USA. Otter's legacy? "Millions of dollars wasted on lawyers, teachers fleeing the state, fewer children able to afford college, and rapid growth in low-wage jobs." Thoughts?
The region lost another leader on Sunday when former Jobs Plus President Bob Potter died at age 87. "Our community just lost a great community leader," said Katie Brodie, who helped Potter ramp up Jobs Plus when it was established in 1987.
Today is the day that the Idaho Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the instant racing case, the lawsuit from the Coeur d’Alene Tribe that raises questions not only about gambling in Idaho, but also about the Idaho Constitution, the balance of power among...
A woman died following a two-vehicle collision Monday afternoon near Pleasantview Road and Prairie Avenue in Post Falls. At 5:30 p.m., a passenger car traveling east on Prairie failed to yield at a stop sign to a southbound passenger car on Pleasantview, the Kootenai County…
Councilman Woody McEvers weighs in on the liver debate, stating his Ruster's Roost in Hayden sells about 10 pounds of the meaty organ per month. Growing up, Woody had his own way of dealing with liver when it was placed before him at a meal. More below.
Kit Hoffer, PIO for the city of Post Falls, reacts to the list that Chanse Watson of IdahoPanhandler.org compiled for his Web site this week: "10 reasons Post Falls isn't boring." Kit notes that two of the places included on Chanse's list are in State Line -- Yes, Virginia, State Line is incorporated -- and not in Post Falls. See which two.
Commenter JeanieSpokane, who has been a semi-regular at Huckleberries Online for years, is dealing with inherited kidney disease and the ugly diagnoses -- End Stage Renal Disease. She is trying to get a kidney transplant. So she has quite an insight to my question from yesterday: Is health insurance a right?
I survived a weekend involving a lot of physical labor -- first, washing mold from one relatives house and then tearing out vinca vine that had taken over one portion of my back yard. Ripping out vinca vine with a Pulaski isn't that much fun....
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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