I received an email over the lunch from a long-time blurker who wondered where the Daily Poll had gone. Actually, it still exists, albeit in a more inconvenient location -- about midway down the left rail of the blog. Today's question involved the University of Idaho's non-campus response to the Moscow shootings Saturday. Please take time to vote.
Kevin Jorgeson climbs what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of El Capitan, the largest monolith of granite in the world, a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite National Park. El Capitan rises more than 3,000…
A man who was walking his dogs on Rathdrum Mountain shot and killed a wolf. Forrest Mize, who lives high on the south side of the mountain off West Hidden Valley Road, said that on Dec. 30 he and his three female Labs were walking...
PM Scanner Traffic: Officer chases down male who was choking female in parking lot of Maurices.
An elephant poses with a circus performer during the presentation of the 39th Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival in Monaco, Tuesday. You write the cutline...
Gonzaga's Kyle Dranginis (left) and Kevin Pangos fight a Santa Clara player for a loose ball in recent West Coast Conference action. The Gonzaga Bulldogs (16-1 overall, 5-0 in WCC play) have hustled their way to No. 3 in both major college basketball polls this week. (SR file photo: Tyler Tjomsland)
Ironman will carry on in Coeur d’Alene the next three years and likely beyond that with a new push to raise money for the sponsorship fee. The Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce said last fall it was evaluating whether to continue its sponsorship of the race, which has been held in the Lake City each summer since 2003.
In today's HucksOnline Blogos roundup, Dogwalk Musings wonders if America has ever looked worse than now, when President Barack Obama failed to join other world leaders to protest the Charlie Hebdo slaughter in France ...
Today's Poll: Did the University of Idaho err in not warning the campus about the Moscow shootings Saturday? (You can find poll halfway down left rail)
I wish the 2015 Idaho Legislature would ...
The Eskimo has 200 words for snow, pens The Bard of Sherman Avenue, but one stands out above the others.
Digger needs help from Hucks Nation & Facebook Friend: How often should you shine shoes if you do business dress for work?
At Moscow-Pullman Daily News, staff writer Terri Harber tells of living two doors down from triple-murder suspect John Lee in a Moscow apartment building + stories of 3 people who died and 1 injured in Moscow shootings Saturday ...
Democratic legislators from both houses offered an unusually positive response today to GOP Gov. Butch Otter’s State of the State message to lawmakers yesterday. “Clearly we need a better way forward, and the governor and our GOP leaders are beginning to understand that,” said House…
The Idaho lawmaker who has the power to kill tax bills says there will be no new tax breaks unless beginning teacher salaries boost to $40,000 a year. Republican Sen. Jeff Siddoway threatened to hold proposed tax cuts hostage in order to get more funding…
On his Facebook page, SR photog pal Jesse Tinsley posts: "I was working on a newspaper story about kids making healthy choices in the school lunch line. The plan was for servers to first suggest the healthy option, a piece of skinless roasted chicken. And…
... That new Commissioner David Stewart has been elected chairman of the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners -- and former chairman Dan Green is now the vice chairman. Stewart and Commissioner Marc Eberlein ran in tandem and were elected in tandem in 2014.
AM Scanner Traffic: 8YO boy is unconscious at Seltice Elementary/Post Falls.
Gov. Butch Otter is asking Idahoans to take a few minutes Wednesday to remember the victims, their families and friends, and the community of Moscow after a series of shootings last Saturday by a lone gunman. “It is important that everyone in Idaho take time…
Diana Harkusha, the pig-tailed Miss America contestant from Ukraine, participates in Zumba class. Did you ever wear your hair in pigtails?
Today, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children announced a partnership with Facebook to send AMBER Alerts to the social network's community to help find missing children. The new initiative will deliver AMBER Alerts to people's News Feeds in targeted search areas after a...
"These gum control laws go too far" -- Gary Crooks, of SR editorial board, re: arrest of 9YO Post Falls boy for stealing gum.
AM Headlines for Tuesday: The marquee at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre reads "Love to Moscow, our hearts are with you" in Moscow Monday. The message is in response to the shooting deaths of three Moscow residents on Saturday, Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Geoff Crimmins)
Charlie Hebdo editorialist Patrick Pelloux (right) and cartoonist Renald Luzier, known as Luz (left), join a march in Paris on Sunday. (AP photo) The staff of Charlie Hebdo said the past few days have been hard, but they are "happy" to have put out a…
A series of fatal shootings Saturday in Moscow provoked different responses from universities on the Palouse, with one sending out alerts immediately. Washington State University Assistant Police Chief Steve Hansen said he made a call to send out a message to students, faculty and staff...
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.
