Scott Maben

The rise in cyber crime is behind a new cyber security certification and training center in Post Falls, opened by the University of Idaho.

Eldon Gale Samuel III goes on trial for murder this week in Coeur d’Alene. He is accused of killing his father and younger brother in March 2014.

A New York couple won a North Idaho lake home in an October drawing that drew more than 23 million entries; now they’re trying to sell it.

A man charged with killing his wife and her young daughter in Post Falls in 2014 pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder Wednesday. Angel Albertico Morales-Larranaga, 27, accepted a plea agreement that calls for him to be sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison with no chance for parole. He also waived his right to appeal the sentence.

Fresh Dungeness crab is a Christmas feast tradition for many, but this year Northwest residents will pay a premium for the crustaceans – if they can find them at all. West Coast crab fisheries have been on hold because of a large algae bloom that increases levels of domoic acid in shellfish and can make them unsafe to eat. The problem has subsided, and Washington’s commercial crab season is expected to open Jan. 4.

Ski area managers aren’t dwelling on last year, and they don’t want customers to worry about a repeat performance this winter.

A proposed new hotel wing at the Coeur d’Alene Resort would blend in better with the existing hotel and convention center if the flat roofline had more variation, members of the city’s design review commission said Thursday.

Before lighting a large menorah on the final evening of Hanukkah, Rabbi Yisroel Hahn, of Spokane, reflected Sunday on the strong mid-November windstorm that left much of the city in darkness and cold. “This great wind … took down our beautiful pine trees and turned them into tools of destruction and caused us to lose our power and our warmth, our heat,” Hahn told about 150 people huddled near the Rotary Fountain in Riverfront Park.

Winter Wonderland this Friday through Sunday nights at Riverside State Park near Spokane is canceled due to cleanup work from the Nov. 17 windstorm.

The criminal justice system in Bonner County has a new resource: a dog specially trained to comfort witnesses and victims who are nervous, scared, angry or experiencing other high emotions in the courtroom or in meetings with investigators and attorneys.

On Saturday, friends will honor the life of Andrea Rainey with a Coeur d’Alene fun run called the 12 Ks of Christmas.

Twin Lakes resident Jordan Simon, 22, remains in critical condition in the trauma center intensive care unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Simon suffered spinal injuries, five broken ribs and a punctured lung. Doctors told family members he may be partially paralyzed.

As a boy growing up in Coeur d’Alene, Jon Mueller remembers walking to school under a canopy of grand, old street trees. Many of them are gone today, but Mueller has spent 30 years creating new landscapes with trees, boulders, paths, sloped grades and native plants enjoyed by people across the Inland Northwest. The landscape architect has left his mark on scores of schools, parks and other projects in Coeur d’Alene, Spokane and neighboring communities. One of Mueller’s signature projects is the Centennial Trail in Kootenai County.

Elaina Pignolet, a Gonzaga University junior studying in France this semester, answers questions via email about Friday’s terrorist attacks and the two days of shock, mourning and heightened security that followed.

One month ago today, three men walked into a Wal-Mart in Post Falls and attempted to buy in-store gift cards using a series of credit cards. Store managers grew suspicious and called police.

An Arizona man who started a ferocious gun battle with police on a North Idaho freeway overpass last year was not trying to harm anyone, his brother told a judge Tuesday morning.

Reid Hatley gazed upon the smoldering ruins of his North Idaho business one morning this past June. Someone had broken into the golf course accessory manufacturer to steal tools, then set fire to the shop and offices near the Coeur d’Alene Airport.