An unpredictable new chapter in the wars over federal land use in the West unfolded Sunday after a group of armed activists split off from an earlier protest march and occupied part of a national wildlife refuge in remote southeastern Oregon. (Question: What should be done to address this situation?)
SR photog Jesse Tinsley provides 3 photos of the brave souls who jumped into Lake Coeur d'Alene for a momentary dip in the lake Friday at the annual Polar Bear Plunge on Sanders Beach in Coeur d'Alene. Despite temperatures in the low 20s, several hundred braved the cold water in the annual New Years tradition.
Americans say their own government was the nation’s biggest problem in 2015, according to Gallup, though the number giving that response has dropped slightly. About 16 percent say some aspect of government — including President Obama, Congress and partisanship — was the nation's biggest problem last year, according to a Gallup survey.
Huckleberries Online celebrated a record year in 2015, finishing with 2,789,768 page-view and 1,817,202 unique views. The page-view mark beat the previous HucksOnline record, set in 2014, by 162,000 page-views.
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The Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office will seek the death penalty for Jonathan Renfro, the man accused of killing a Coeur d’Alene police sergeant last year, if he is convicted of first-degree murder. Prosecutors filed a notice in 1st District Court on Thursday, the last day of the year, to try the slaying of Sgt. Greg Moore as a capital crime.
Though Idaho lawmakers agreed to raise state employee pay this year by an average of 3 percent, state worker salaries have fallen even further behind market rates. An annual state report shows that Idaho classified state employee pay now lags 22.6 percent below market rates, compared to 19.87 percent at this point last year.
In his final Cheers & Jeers column of 2015, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune begins by offering JEERS to Idaho Gov. Butch Otter. He also has JEERS for North Idaho representatives Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll and Rep. Shannon McMillan. Do you have a CHEER or a JEER for the performance by a political figure in 2015?
The slaying of Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore didn’t make international headlines or set every readership record for cdapress.com. But the tragedy left the community reeling, then slowly healing like few other events in our region’s history.That profound local impact is why the death of Sgt. Moore is the Story of the Year for The Press.
Once again, hundreds of local residents gathered on Sanders Beach to begin the New Year by taking the Polar Bear Plunge. Question: How did you start the New Year?
Kootenai County Commissioner David Stewart announced he will seek a second term in the upcoming 2016 election. Stewart said he is anxious to continue his work on the commission, and cites a number of those issues in a press release.
As the world celebrated the dawning of a new year, a special North Idaho family also celebrated the birth of their daughter. John and Tullaya Akins of Sandpoint proudly announced that Mika Akins entered the world at 12:15 a.m. on New Year's Day, making her Coeur d'Alene's first official baby of 2016. She was born at Kootenai Health.
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.