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News >  Idaho

Summer Theatre unveils list of 2017 shows

It's that time of the year when the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre unveils its shows for the following season. The Summer Theatre, under the guidance of Jadd Davis, is now doing three shows per summer at the Kroc Center. Next year's shows? "Chitty Chitty Bang Band," "South Pacific" and "Million Dollar Quartet."
News >  Idaho

Lake City’s Music Man fights cancer

Chris Guggemos, of Handshake Productions, has provided free summer music in the Coeur d'Alene area for the last 25 years, including the City Park concerts on Sunday afternoon. A fund-raising concert for Chris, featuring western singer Kelly Hughes, will take place Sunday, July 24, at Coeur d'Alene's City Park. Chris also has a GoFundMe.
News >  Idaho

It’s official: Trump picks Pence

Donald J. Trump named Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana as his running mate on Friday, adding to the Republican ticket a traditional conservative who boasts strong credentials with the Christian right, and bringing an end to a vice-presidential selection process that seemed at risk of spinning out of control.
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Summer time & the living is easy

University of Idaho student Megan Rasmussen enjoys the last rays of sunlight late Thursday afternoon as she studies from a psychology text book near Post Falls.
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AM Scanner Traffic — 7.15.16

Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (26 items & counting) includes 30ish female unconscious but breathing after being thrown from or falling from black Toyota Camri with Kootenai County plates at the state liquor store at State Line. Manhunt under way near State Line for driver of Camri ...
News >  Idaho

AM Headlines — 7.15.16

AM Headlines today features Post Falls PD, tongues firmly cheeked, declaring grounds clear of Pokémon Go creatures after catching something that looks like a turtle. Also: Post Falls family discovers decapitated pet ducks/KREM, EWU student describes horror of Nice, France attack/KHQ, Coeur d'Alene FD debuts fire boat (video)/KHQ ...
News >  Idaho

Poll: Ginsburg attack on Trump wrong

In the Thursday poll, a solid majority of Hucks Nation said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was wrong to publicly attack Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Today's Poll: Do you consider yourself to be a racist?
News >  Idaho

Quotable Quote

"It's getting down right tiring, isn't it? The shootings, the deaths, the prayers that aren't answered and the political rhetoric. The conversations that come full circle with no solutions and the idea that one side of the political aisle is right, while the other is wrong. It's just so down right tiring" -- Dan Mitchinson.
News >  Idaho

Few appeal new valuations, but …

First, the good news. Your property valuation in Kootenai County probably has gone up in the face of a hot real estate market. In fact, the number appealing their valuations is the lowest in at least 15 years. The bad news? Property taxes will go up on many properties as a result of "wise" legislators capping the homeowners exemption at $100,000.
News >  Idaho

2015 Cape Horn fire cause inconclusive

SReporter Scott Maben reports: Idaho state investigators said Friday they haven’t determined exactly how last summer’s Cape Horn fire near Bayview started, even though a woman camping near the fire’s origin had fired two marine flares earlier in the day, with one “dud” landing in a rocky area near the camp, where the fire started.
News >  Idaho

Press: We’re all racists

In a recent editorial, Editor Mike Patrick of the Coeur d'Alene Press comments that the first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one. The American problem? We're all racists, the editorial says. White America has no idea what it's like to live as a minority member in the American culture.
News >  Idaho

Jeers: Now they oppose librarians, too?

In his Cheers & Jeers column today, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives JEERS ... to U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch. Both Idaho U.S. senators voted in the overwhelming minority to oppose President Obama's choice of Carla D. Hayden to head the Library of Congress. Marty's last line in superb.
News >  Idaho

June revenues $20.1M over projections

Idaho’s state tax revenues for June came in $20.1 million higher than projections – 6.5 percent higher – a revenue bump that means Idaho closed out its fiscal year June 30 with a balanced budget and also automatically transferred $15.6 million to the Budget Stabilization Fund, the state’s main rainy-day savings account.
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Terror truck attack kills at least 84

France's President Francois Hollande has declared a vicious Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice to be an act of terror. At least 84 people died. 25 more are on life support. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old French Tunisian, has been identified as the driver of the truck that plowed through one mile of Bastille Day revelers.
News >  Idaho

City proposes 3% tax increase

The city of Coeur d'Alene's initial budget (of $95.7M) for the upcoming fiscal year contains raises for city employees, as well as a proposed 3 percent increase to property taxes.
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County OKs $11.9M jail expansion

Kootenai County commissioners are on board with a bigger jail. They agreed Thursday to move forward with plans for a 126-bed, $11.9 million expansion that is expected to be operational by late spring of 2018. A shell will be included in the expansion to add 108 additional beds in the future.
News >  Idaho

Parting Shot — 7.14.16

French soldiers stand guard by the sealed off area of an attack after a Anchortruck drove on to the sidewalk and plowed through a crowd of revelers who'd gathered to watch the fireworks in the French resort city of Nice, southern France, Friday. A spokesman for France's Interior Ministry says there are likely to be "several dozen dead."
News >  Idaho

Feds fear violence at conventions

Top national security officials testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday that they are worried about the prospect of violence descending on the Republican and Democratic national conventions over the next two weeks.
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Wild Card/Thursday — 7.14.16

I'm facing a difficult choice this weekend, put up another side of fence, or shovel 4 yards of rock into an expanded garden spot in the back yard. Mrs. O is cracking the whip as we get ready to host a small family reunion in mid-August. But, as Scarlett O'Hara might say, I won't think about that today, I'll think about that tomorrow.
News >  Idaho

Carlson: Trump ‘borderline insane’

In a column this week, Chris Carlson/Carlson Chronicles declares presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to be "borderline insane." Carlson is hoping against hope that Republican delegates to the national convention in Cleveland this week will step up and find someone else to carry their banner this fall.
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Cutline Contest — Time2Vote

The Cutline Contest today features a Spanish bullfighter who didn't get the upper hand during his battle with a San Fermin Festival bull. Wednesday Winner: gitrdun.
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Truck plows into Bastille Day crowd

Another Terror Attack? At least 60 people have been killed in France after a truck ploughed into a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern city of Nice. The city’s mayor said dozens had been killed in the apparent attack. Local media is reporting up to 60 fatalities.
News >  Idaho

There’s huckleberries in them thar hills

In her post this AM, Marianne Love was typing with purple fingers, a good indicator that her first huckleberry foray into the woods this year was successful. True to the code of the huckleberry picker, Marianne isn't saying where she found the purple gold this year (just picture something above 4,800 feet elevation). Have you been picking yet?