Blue Cross of Idaho is moving some of its health insurance customers in Kootenai County to a network care model next year in an effort to lower costs. About 7,000 members will be affected by the change, which requires them to see in-network providers and have surgeries done at Kootenai Health’s Coeur d’Alene hospital.

Police are puzzled by the suspicious disappearance Saturday of a Coeur d’Alene man after he left his job as an x-ray technician at a Post Falls hospital. William “Bo” Kirk, 41, went missing just after 7 p.m. after his shift at Northwest Specialty Hospital. Almost three hours later, his pickup truck was found ablaze. Scott Maben/SR reports.

Police are puzzled by the suspicious disappearance Saturday of a Coeur d’Alene man after he left his job as an X-ray technician at a Post Falls hospital.

BOISE – Eight months after his 2010 U.S. House campaign imploded, Vaughn Ward has re-entered the fray of public debate. Ward, the U.S. Marine Reserve lieutenant colonel upset in last spring’s GOP primary election by Raul Labrador, is now chief executive of the private Northwest Specialty Hospital in Post Falls.