Hope you had a good day today, HBO. If you didn't, the good news is there is still time to turn it around. I'm leaving you with this picture of a Fire Boss pontoon dousing one of the many fires burning in our region. We took an Idaho road trip earlier this summer and a lot of the super cool places we passed through are burning up.
Feeling stressed? Take a little breather -- literally -- and check out Sholeh Patrick's column in today's CDA Press: "Mother Nature provides more answers than she gets credit for. Take stress — blamed for woes as simple as a headache and serious as a heart attack." (Question: How do you relieve stress?)
Leon Logothetis on a mission. Riding his yellow motorcycle, which he calls Kindness One, he is attempting to travel around the world on nothing but the kindness of strangers. No money. No food. Nowhere to stay. Logothetis is counting on the generosity of the human spirit. (Question: What is the last kind thing someone did for you?)
The Idaho Department of Insurance has been made aware of a possible scam by a company using deceptive practices to market health insurance in Idaho. Your Health Idaho, Idaho’s health insurance exchange, has received complaints from consumers about an organization called National Enrollment Center.
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday they have concluded their investigation into the deaths of two teens in Post Falls back in May and said speed was the determining factor. Leo C. Neal Jr., 17, of Post Falls and Monte A. Thomson Jr., 17 of Spokane, were killed when the vehicle Thomson was driving lost control and struck a fence.
Polygamist Kody Brown of "Sister Wives" fame have been granted more time to pursue an appeal in their case against Utah, FOX 13 reports. ... The reality star and his wives sued Utah in 2012 over its historic ban on plural marriage. (Question: How many wives does one man need?)
Options to allow booze at pregame Idaho Vandals football tailgates, at least for the first half of the season, appear to be drying up. University of Idaho officials will appeal to the State Board of Education to allow alcohol consumption in Kibbie Dome parking lots on game days when the board meets Thursday at Idaho State University in Pocatello.
Happy Rainy Day Tuesday! It's me, Taryn, in again for DFO. I'll be here with you all week. Two upsides to this blah weather: I won't have to water the garden or turn on the AC. We had a good day yesterday. I deleted a couple of comments due to language. For me, the general rule of thumb is if you wouldn't say a word at church or school ...
A second federal lawsuit has been filed against the city of Spokane related to the dismissal of former police Chief Frank Straub. Nancy Goodspeed, a former spokeswoman for the Parks Department, filed the $1 million lawsuit Monday against the city, Mayor David Condon, members of his staff and a contractor providing medical employment screening.
Rich Landers/SR Outdoors Blog could have published the Mt. Spokane wolf pic and chose not to. Here's why: "I was offered a chance to publish the image from Mount Spokane last month but the photographer and local wolf advocate Hank Seipp told me I had to agree to write a "positive" story about wolves.
For a week each summer on South Ross Point Road in Post Falls is a place called Camp Journey. To longtime camper and soon-to-be-counselor Michael Corcoran, it's "a slice of heaven on Earth." "It's amazing," said Michael, 17. "Words can't even explain it."
Paul Turner/The Slice asks: "Have you figured out who you will be against this fall?" Turner suggests some reasons in case you have a hard time deciding: "Maybe you don't like the coach's politics. Or you dislike the uniforms. Or you might root against your ex-spouse's alma mater."
A 600-square-foot treehouse south of Beauty Bay recently featured on the DIY Network’s “The Treehouse Guys” is lacking a building permit. The television episode aired June 7. A notice of violation was sent to owner Paul Buttars on June 8, according to officials with Kootenai County’s Community Development office.
Herb Huseland/Bayviews has been monitoring the lake levels for Pend Oreille. Quoth Herb: "Has anyone but me noticed that Bonneville Power has stolen a full three inches of Lake Pend Oreille water all Summer?" (Question: Anyone else paying attention to the lake levels?)
A game camera on Mt. Spokane caught an image of a wolf recently, the first confirmed sighting there in 70 years. Hank Seipp has been studying wolves in the Inland Northwest for years now. He says the people of Spokane should be happy to see a wolf back on Mt. Spokane as they play an important role in our ecosystem. (Question: Agree?)
A British mountaineer who climbed Switzerland’s Matterhorn says he is the first quadruple amputee to reach the iconic peak. The claim couldn’t be verified with certainty, but was backed by the warden of the Hoernli Hut base camp, who said he knew of nobody else who’d achieved the feat. (Question: What have you overcome to meet a goal?)
Delta’s travails, and those of its customers, move into day two with the airline canceling of another 300 flights. The disruptions Tuesday follow about 1,000 cancelled flights Monday and, according to FlightStats, about 2,800 delayed flights. (Question: Have Delta's problems messed with your travel plans?)
The Coeur d’Alene School District is looking at three options for the focus of the Hayden Lake Magnet School. The district is looking to use a currently vacant elementary school building at the corner of Government Way and Hayden Avenue as the campus for a new magnet school. (Question: A good fix for the district's overcrowding?)
Brian Walker/CDA Press reports: Fire crews responded to three small fires in the Post Falls area believed to have been started by lightning strikes on Sunday afternoon. The fires were in the 15200 block of Riverview Drive, on Nelson Loop in the Hauser area and at 869 S. Breezy Way on the north side of the Spokane River near McGuire Road.
The Spokane County Sheriff's Office said search efforts will continue Tuesday morning for a man missing after a fishing boat overturned on Newman Lake on Monday Night. Marine Units told KREM 2 News the boat overturned on the north end of the lake near Peninsula Drive. They said they got a call about it just prior to 10:00 p.m.
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.
