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News >  Idaho

Fashion model from Sandpoint shows different is beautiful

Far from the shores of Lake Pend Oreille where she grew up, Alison Midstokke is showing the world “a different kind of beauty.” The 31-year-old New Yorker is realizing her dream to be a fashion model and actor - ambitious goals for anyone, but especially challenging for a woman who has endured scores of surgeries on her face since birth.
News >  Idaho

Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Chief Antelope honored in sculpture along river

Chief Morris Antelope was known to be fair and just, a strong advocate for the rights of his people at a time the Coeur d’Alene Tribe began to follow the ways of the missionaries and settlers and turn to farming and ranching. More than 150 years after his birth on Lake Coeur d’Alene, a bronze statue honoring the life and legacy of Chief Antelope now sits next to the Spokane River near North Idaho College.
News >  Idaho

Flare gun used, but no evidence it caused Cape Horn fire, investigators say

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 on the tinder-dry shoreline. After a year-long probe of the fire’s cause, the Idaho Department of Lands said the cause and person responsible for the human-caused blaze that destroyed nine homes and charred over 1,300 acres “has not yet been determined.”
News >  Idaho

New Julyamsh venue a homecoming for Coeur d’Alene Tribe

Quanah Matheson was watching rodeo at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds last year when realized the arena would be a great spot for Julyamsh, the largest outdoor powwow in the Northwest. The Coeur d’Alene Tribe canceled the annual celebration last summer after fighting the introduction of instant racing gaming machines at the longtime home of Julyamsh at the Greyhound Park and Event Center in Post Falls.
News >  Spokane

In Cape Horn fire, band of residents helped save neighborhood

The Cape Horn Fire near Bayview, Idaho, was sparked one year ago this week and quickly blew up into a dangerous and fast-moving wildfire. With smoke and flames bearing down on their idyllic neighborhood overlooking Lake Pend Oreille, a group of homeowners chose not to evacuate. They stayed for days to help save their homes.
News >  Idaho

Coeur d’Alene project connects City Park with Memorial Field, carousel

Summer crowds ran into some major public works projects in downtown Coeur d’Alene the past few years, with blocked streets and reduced parking. This season the construction zone is next to City Park, a popular and shady summer destination on Lake Coeur d’Alene and a central location for big events such as Ironman, Independence Day and Taste of the Coeur d’Alenes.
News >  Idaho

North Idaho schools score above state average on SATs

Nearly all of the largest high schools in North Idaho performed above the state average on this year’s SAT tests, with one school - Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy - again on top with the highest composite score in Idaho.
News >  Idaho

Pastor shot 6 times returns to church: ‘It’s good to be home’

Tim Remington walked briskly into The Altar Church on Sunday morning, his right arm in a sling and his left hand clutching his Bible. He didn’t pause to look at the spot in the parking lot where three months earlier he lay in a pool of his blood after he was shot six times. Pastor Remington had other things on his mind: greeting his congregation, the order of songs for the morning’s services, his first sermon since the March 6 attack that nearly took his life.
News >  Idaho

Ancestry puzzle complete for Coeur d’Alene woman

Heather Livergood considered herself lucky when she discovered who her birth mother was last year. She never thought the other half of the mystery - her father’s identity - would be solved so quickly. The Coeur d’Alene woman was sold as a newborn for $100 – one of possibly dozens of babies whose fates were orchestrated by Gertrude Pitkanen, a notorious Montana abortionist and midwife who arranged black market adoptions. No records were kept of who Livergood’s birth parents were, leading her to a 45-year search for where she came from.