The annual migration of bald eagles to Lake Coeur d'Alene an Lake Pend Oreille has been a significant tourism draw since the 1990s, reports Becky Kramer/SR. Becky & photographer Kathy Plonka visited Bayview Tuesday to get a closer look at our white-headed visitors from he north. Also see gallery of Kathy's photos below.
Rather than back down in the face of another demoralizing election season, the Idaho State Journal of Pocatello, encourages Idaho Democrats to shout their message low and clear. Idaho needs an opposition party, the Journal says, because, among other things, Idaho Republicans have shown they are unable to solve any of the state's problems.
As soon-to-be leader of the free world, President-elect Donald Trump needs to rein in his wild conspiracy theories, like the one in which he claims he actually received more legitimate votes than Democrat Hillary Clinton. The SR editorial Board weighs in.
A mountain goat feasts on the hillside over Lake Pend Oreille in Bayview on Tuesday.
During the Thanksgiving weekend, I followed Amy Dearest and Mrs O into the Mountain Madness Soap Co in downtown Coeur d'Alene. The place was packed with women smelling all the soap scents made in the basement below. My sniffer isn't all that good. I couldn't tell Patchouli/Honey from Huckleberry. But there is one smell that stood out. Dirt.
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday PM (12 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 20 more items) includes announcement from Benewah County Sheriff's Office that Toys for Tots has been canceled this year.
The Cutline Contest today features Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for President-elect Donald Trump, being serenaded by "The Naked Cowboy" at Trump Tower in New York City. Monday Winner: SLFisher.
Coeur d'Alene will soon have a carousel again. And Sandpoint might not be far behind. A Sandpoint couple has purchased what is believed to be a 1920 Allan Hershell Carousel and brought it back to Sandpoint for an unveiling Saturday. Reno and Clay Hutchison would like to see a year-round carousel in Sandpoint, too.
Photographer Keith Boe of Post Falls snapped this photo last week after the Christmas tree lighting on the Hagadone Hospitality property in downtown Coeur d'Alene.
A Hayden man has been spreading kindness for the last year. Corey Jeppesen has been posting a video to his Facebook every day saying something nice about someone he knows or has met for the last 332 days. Taylor Viydo/KREM2 reports.
This weekend during Small Business Saturday, (Cindy Hval) got to spend a few hours as an honorary bookseller at Auntie’s Bookstore in Spokane. Saturday was a designated Indies First event. Indies First is a collaboration between authors, publishers, retailers, and readers, and it celebrates independent bookstores and local communities.
The Lewiston City Council has approved a 182-day moratorium on new or expanded homeless shelters in the city. The Lewiston Tribune reports that on Monday the council voted in favor of the moratorium, which officials say will give the council time to enact new zoning codes and standards for the organizations.
The daily roundup of links from the HucksOnline social media includes photos of Black Friday hike by Marianne Love/Slight Detour. Also: Don't feed the troll/Fort Boise, Your weekly roundup/On Tap, 'Tis the season to decorate/Simple Mind, Idaho among 'brokest' states/Barrett Rainey, 19-pound rainbows top fishing derby/Outdoors ...
The Idaho Attorney General’s Office is declining to seek charges against former Bonner County Undersheriff David Hale for creating a website mocking the sheriff’s candidacy of Terry Ford in the run-up to the primary election. Keith Kinnaird/Bonner County Bee reports.
"The presidential campaign ignored the homeless," reads a subhead in the Inlander column written recently by former state senator Mary Lou Reed, "but North Idaho's St. Vincent de Paul makes them their business every day."
Black Friday, the day of crazy discounts and sales for shoppers across the nation, has morphed into an entire weekend capped by Cyber Monday for online shoppers. In between? Small Business Saturday, which meant big business for many local bricks-and-mortar merchants. Bethany Blitz/Press reports.
I can't think of many downtowns in this country that does Christmas as well as Coeur d'Alene. And the Coeur d'Alene Resort property is a big part of the overall light and Christmas display. Here, photographer Don Sausser provides a view from his perch above Sherman Avenue of the Hagadone Hospitality HQ and boardwalk beyond.
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (20 items & counting) includes tree service that may have ruptured Avista line while removing trees at Hayden Bible Church, 209 E Miles Ave/Hayden.
Darrell Dlouhy of Daft Badger/CdA is planning an authentic German Market at McEuen Park for the Christmas holidays next year, with mulled wine, beer, brats, music and 60-80 vendors selling their crafts. Darrell told Huckleberries this morning that he wanted to do something at McEuen Park to enliven the holidays in downtown Coeur d'Alene.
Apparently, Idaho has a treasurer, in Ron Crane, who believes that he's not accountable to the public. Yesterday, Betsy Russell pulled the curtain back on Treasurer Crane, revealing that he won't discuss why the credit-rating committee he chairs never meets. Now, Bill Dentzer of the Idaho Statesman weighs in.
AM Headlines includes the arrival of a tree from Idaho's Payette Forest to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington. Also: Idaho Records/Press, Kroc Center preps for attacks/KXLY, CdA man sentenced for child porn/Press, Explosion rocks Post Falls neighborhood/KHQ, Bridge inspection to hamper weekend traffic/Press ...
The Seattle area has the hottest housing market in the country – the first time in nine years that Seattle has led the United States in home-price growth. The Seattle Times reported the typical single-family home across King, Snohomish and Pierce counties cost 11 percent more in September than a year prior. Portland ranks No. 2.
A Facebook Friend wants someone to shake up Old Man Winter because she needs snow with her Christmas music. I don't. I like the extended fall that is threatening to enter December. And if we have a gray Christmas, I'm OK with that, too. How…
In the Monday poll, a plurality of Hucks Nation said the undefeated Gonzaga men's basketball team will finish the year in the Top 5. Today's Poll: Do you agree with President-elect Donald Trump that someone who burns the U.S. flag should be severely punished?
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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