Amy Cannata

A key transportation link between the residential core of the East Central Neighborhood and businesses north of Interstate 90 has reopened after being severed for the past three weeks. Drivers may not have even noticed the problem. But those who get around on foot had to hoof it a bit farther after an over-height truck on I-90 smashed into the pedestrian bridge near Regal Street.

RATHDRUM – It hasn’t seen a train in decades, but Rathdrum’s old Milwaukee Railroad Station was once the hub of passenger travel on the prairie. Soon it could be restored and reinvented. The owners have placed the station and surrounding property on the market at a price of $229,000, but are also leaving open the possibility that a current partner will move forward with renovations on the property.

Nature is the sort of free spirit that doesn’t pay much attention to the calendar. So autumn chill and rain made their way to the Inland Northwest Sunday despite the official designation of today as the first day of fall.

A lifetime of international collecting goes on the auction block Sunday when locally grown international business expert and political adviser Phillip Grub’s estate is sold at Owens Auction house in Spokane Valley. Born in Medical Lake, Grub taught at George Washington University and advised presidents and international leaders before retiring on Spokane’s South Hill.

The rusted 1926 Ford Model T Roadster sat for years in Craig Nelson’s mother’s North Side garage. With no way to restore it, Nelson had watched other Model T owners out and about with their cars. Now a group of those owners has joined together to help Nelson bring his 80-plus-year-old car back to life in a Hillyard garage.

The rusted 1926 Ford Model T Roadster sat for years in Craig Nelson’s mother’s North Side garage. With no way to restore it, Nelson had watched other Model T owners out and about with their cars. Now a group of those owners has joined together to help Nelson bring his 80-plus-year-old car back to life in a Hillyard garage.

Beautiful lakes, waterfront dining and a large and well-staffed marina are bringing hundreds of wooden boat lovers to Coeur d’Alene this week. This is the second time the Antique and Classic Boat Society has chosen the Lake City for its annual international boat show and meeting.

Powerful faces look out at visitors to the gallery at the Human Rights Education Institute. Some smile. Some look stern. All have made their marks on the world.

Fires and foreclosures have been forcing more than people out of their California homes. Their dogs have also been suffering, with many being abandoned as their owners leave the area or move into apartments that won’t accept pets. Enter Bonnie Whiting and her North Idaho group Alternative Rescue Shelter.

Kootenai County Treasurer Tom Malzahn is preparing himself for business more serious than managing the county’s finances. Malzahn is taking a leave of absence starting Sept. 12 to battle prostate cancer.

The summer blur of camping and boating activity at Farragut State Park may be coming to a close, but park officials are just launching into a series of more than $6 million in projects to upgrade the park’s wastewater system and Eagle boat launch and to decrease fire danger by removing some trees and brush. The sewage project will replace aging underground leach fields with lagoons that will store septic tank effluent for irrigation. Boat launch work will swap new wave attenuators for 30-year-old cedar log breakwaters and replace the handling docks. Launch lanes are also going to be widened.

Half a dozen children on unicycles whizzed up and down a stretch of blacktop in front of their Camp MiVoden dormitories at the conclusion of an amphitheater gathering on the edge of Hayden Lake. Nearby staff prepared lunch in the dining hall. And just up the hill, another group of kids practiced archery. Down below a handful of RVs parked on a small spit of sand extending into Hayden Lake.

An experimental aircraft crashed into a Hayden elementary school Friday, killing the pilot but not injuring two teachers who were outside eating lunch about 25 yards from the crash site. Spokane resident Kenneth L. Lien, 65, was the only person in the plane when it crashed and came to rest upside down near the southeast corner of the school. Lien was partially ejected and pronounced dead at the scene.