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News >  Idaho

AM Scanner Traffic — 3.15.17

Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (19 items & counting) includes report that a vehicle is in the water at Third Street boat launch, near Coeur d'Alene resort. The sheriff's Dive Team reports that there's no one in the vehicle.
News >  Idaho

Finish this sentence …

So, we have learned from columnist Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman that "the best damn thing" in Idaho isn't Lake Coeur d'Alene. So what is? Please finish this sentence: The best dang (hey, this is a family blog) thing in Idaho is ...
News >  Idaho

UP train derails along Moyie River

A Union Pacific train derailed about four miles north from Highway 2 on Moyie River Road, Boundary County. The derailment involves 12 railroad cars loaded with grain that derailed due to a mud slide. None of the cars reached the Moyie River and there was no HAZMAT material involved.
News >  Idaho

School trustee filing deadlines Friday

Don't look now, but the candidacy filing deadlines for a number of districts, including school boards, is 5 p.m. Friday. The battle for seats in the Coeur d'Alene School District has been intense in the past, as Hard Right advocates have tried to regain the foothold they once had.
News >  Idaho

AM Headlines — 3.15.17

AM Headlines: Public Records/Press, Highway 5 near Plummer shut/KHQ, 2 faith-healing bills introduced/EOBoise, Task force searches for Sean Freeze/Press, Deputies meet people who helped save them/KHQ, Panel kills bill to restrict early voting dates/EOBoise, Blanchette: Every No. 1 seed fears 1st-round pratfall/SR + more ...
News >  Idaho

Poll: We prefer Vito over Heather

In the Tuesday poll, in the lightest voting of the year, HucksOnline voters picked Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, over Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard (if forced to choose one as a representative). Feel free to use this thread to give your reason why. Today's Poll: Which lake do you consider the best dang one in North Idaho?
News >  Idaho

Home builders bullish on Trump

The nation's home builders couldn't be happier with President Trump's first move to roll back strict environmental rules. A monthly index of builder sentiment jumped six points to the highest level in 12 years.
News >  Idaho

2 arrested in Jordan’s robbery

On Tuesday, the North Idaho Violent Crimes Task Force arrested two people in connection with the Saturday armed robbery of Jordan's Grocery on 15th Street/CdA. Vincent Kyle Juarez, 18, and a 17YO female, both of Post Falls, were charged in the robbery.
News >  Idaho

Post Falls levy wins big

Voters throughout Kootenai County supported their schools Tuesday night. The Coeur d'Alene Press provides reports for the successful levies in Post Falls, Lakeland, Kootenai and Plummer-Worley.
News >  Idaho

Edit: Strike hurts Silver Valley

In an editorial this AM, the Coeur d'Alene Press said that the strike over wages and benefits by Lucky Friday miners against the Heckla Mining Co. will hurt all of the Silver Valley.
News >  Idaho

Vestal: Spokane has more than Zags

This must be the week for out-of-town columnist taking shots at Inland Northwest places. First, Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman belittles Lake Coeur d'Alene. And now some guy writing for The Guardian claims that the only thing Spokane has going for it is the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Columnist Shawn Vestal/SR lampoons the guy.
News >  Idaho

Huckleberries: Sufferin’ lake envy

Huckleberries Wednesday launches with a look at that jab columnist Rocky Barker/Statesman took at Lake Coeur d'Alene. Reacting to a New York website that declared Lake Coeur d'Alene to be the "best damn thing" about Idaho, Barker says: “For my money, it’s not even the most breathtaking mountain lake in North Idaho.”
News >  Idaho

Denson troubled ex-wives, too

Kelly Pease wasn't the first woman to seek protection from Steven Denson, the man accused of killing the 37-year-old nursing student last week before ending his own life. ... Two ex-wives filed three protection orders against Denson in a six-year span. Ryan Collingwood/Coeur d'Alene Press reports ...
News >  Idaho

CdA voters OK $68M in levy, bond

The Coeur d’Alene School district took a risk this year, asking voters to approve a bond and levy totaling $68 million. It was a risk that paid off. Voters approved a $35.5 million construction bond and a $32 million operating levy in Tuesday’s special election. Q: Are you surprised by the outcome?
Opinion >  Column

Huckleberries: Huckleberries: If Lake Coeur d’Alene isn’t best thing about Idaho, it’s close

Columnist Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman scoffs at the idea that Lake Coeur d’Alene is the “best damn thing” about Idaho. Two writers from the New York website Thrillist picked the crown jewel of Kootenai County lakes for their “best damn thing” list for each state. Barker claims that Lake Coeur d’Alene isn’t even the best lake in North Idaho. He prefers Priest Lake and Lake Pend Oreille. This from someone whose most talked about attraction is a 50-mile parking lot known as Interstate 84.
News >  Idaho

CdA bond & all levies pass easily

It was a great night for Kootenai County school districts (although not for voter turnout). Voters approved everything on the ballot, from supplemental levies to the Coeur d'Alene school bond and the Lakeland plant facilities levy.
News >  Idaho

School Election Wild Card — 3.14.17

Today is the day that school districts throughout Idaho, incuding the five in Kootenai County, are voting on supplemental levies and possibly bonds. The districts have done their best to provide quality education to the region's public school children. Now it's up to you to help them out by supporting these levies and bonds.
News >  Idaho

Cutline Contest — time2vote

The Cutline Contest today features a Connecticut nursery owner who's counting down the days until spring despite a storm that's dumping more than a foot of snow in some places in the Northeast. Monday Winner: JohnA.
News >  Idaho

House votes to muzzle school districts

The Idaho House has voted 53-16 in favor of HB 270, the third version of Rep. Jason Monks’ bill to ban local governments or school districts from in any way using public funds to influence the outcome of an election on a bond or levy.
News >  Idaho

Today is Pi Day

It's March 14 (3/14), which means it's Pi Day. Pi measures the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, which is approximately 3.14159. I think. I wasn't good at mathematics. How about you?
News >  Idaho

Nate: Some teachers ‘clearly overpaid’

When the House briefly went at ease this morning because the Internet had gone down, preventing members from viewing bills, Rep. Ron Nate, R-Rexburg, was heard on an open mike saying, “We all know our districts. We know that there are some teachers that are clearly overpaid."