On Saturday, I assured a disabled woman in my daughter's apartment complex in Portland that there's no way Congress would act irresponsibly, despite the growing number of irresponsible members, and allow this country to default on its debt. She was frightened that she wouldn't have…
A lamprey is shown at Willamette Falls, in Oregon City, Ore. As long as Indians have lived in the Northwest, they have looked to lamprey for food. But in the decades since dozens of hydroelectric dams have harnessed the power of the Columbia, Willamette and…
Residents of Hayden's gated Forest Hills subdivision awoke Monday to find driveways and light poles tagged with white paint and symbols, including a Nazi swastika, an anarchy symbol, a penis drawing, and threats. Robert Drummond, of 1545 Pebblestone, found the swastika and three other drawings…
Post Falls Police Detective’s located endangered runaways Tina Jewell and Charity Jordan at WalMart in Post Falls after receiving an anonymous tip (see 12:49 & 1:12 p.m. items) -- Coeur d'Alene Police Department news release. 5:42 p.m. U.S. Bank, 6363 Govt Way/Hayden, reports woman is…
A Chinook Salmon passes the viewing window in the visitor center at Bonneville Dam near Cascade Locks, Ore. A federal judge in Oregon ruled today that the Obama administration's attempt to make federal hydroelectric dams in the Northwest safer for protected salmon once again violates…
An unidentified man wears only a tie and socks as he participates in a performance art piece outside the New York Stock Exchange this morning in New York. For the five-minute piece, dozens of volunteers disrobed and acted out the motions of people at work.…
Idaho Falls Police investigated a man in a bunny suit after neighbors reported him as a public nuisance for frightening children in their neighborhood on Monday. William Falkingham, 34, was advised by police not to wear his bunny suit in public. According to a report,…
Oh tiny rootlet, orange and sweet, you nestle near the pickled beet; torn from your home and shipped by truck your life’s been full of lousy luck, and now through circumstance and fate you find yourself upon my plate; how sad this is the way…
The most remarkable thing about both the Republican and Democratic Idaho legislative redistricting plans is this: Both of them are willing to throw a lot of current legislators overboard, and by no means just those of the opposing party. By that, you have to mean…
An oak tree outside Ohio's Malabar Farm State Park in north-central Ohio played a key role in the the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption. The tree was hit Friday by straight-line winds that split it down its rotted middle and took out one side. (AP…
California environmentalists are fighting a situation similar to Coeur d'Alene's in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has arbitrarily demanded that viewtiful trees be removed from a dam. Terry Harris/KEA provides this language from the suit: "The Corps adopted a new standard requiring removal…
On her Facebook wall, Ada County Commissioner Sharon Ullman writes: "The Idaho Racing Commission confirms that Les Bois Park has never been licensed for live dog racing. That means that the simulcasting of greyhound racing (live dogs racing in other states being broadcast here in…
An Idaho family is fighting a city ordinance that regulates backyard chickens. The City of Post Falls slapped the Partington family with a warning for owning chickens. City leaders ordered the family to get rid of their chickens last week. Brian Partington told KREM 2…
The most-stolen car in Washington state last year was the 1991 Honda Accord, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. The top 10 most-stolen list contains cars and pickups from the 1991 to 1997 model years. The NICB says in a news release that older…
Matthew Sells, 12 Justin McDonald, 13 and Steve Jacobson, 13, wore dribbling glasses during drills at basketball camp at Holy Family Catholic School in Coeur d'Alene on Friday. The camp started on Monday and wrapped up on Friday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Spokane funeral director…
11:46 a.m. David has questions re: legal paddleboat age & lifejacket requirements. 11:39 a.m. Son believes his mother may be suffering stroke in 2100 block of Grant/PF. 11:32 a.m. Caller: Upper deck of e/b car carrier on I-90 @ M/P 24 (Wolf Lodge) is shifting…
Two 17-year-old hitchhikers attacked a 66-year-old North Idaho woman who stopped to help them last weekend in Bonner County, authorities say. Suspects Joseph J. Martin, of Denver, (left) and Marshall O. Dittrich, (bottom right) of Danville, Calif., had run away from a youth explorations program…
Monday Poll: No one won the debt ceiling fight, according to Hucks Nation. 97 of 161 respondents (60.25%) took that position when asked who won the drawn-out fight that concluded today with the Senate approving the debt deal hammered out over the weekend. 22 of…
Idaho was rated number one again and once again it’s not a victory, especially for a state striving to make its agriculture and high tech industries competitive. Idaho was ranked the slowest state for Internet connections by Pando Networks , a company that specializes in…
Early Saturday morning at approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, Pend Oreille County Dispatchers took a 911 report of a van that was submerged in the Pend Oreille River. When Deputy Steve Beery arrived on scene he observed the vehicle was submerged about 40 feet from shore…
"Bachelorette" Ashley Hebert kisses J.P. Rosenbaum on the season finale of "The Bachelorette" in Fiji. Hebert chose the 34-year-old construction manager over winemaker Ben Flajnik from California in Monday's two-hour finale. (AP Photo/ABC, Matt Klitscher) Question: Why do so few of these couples from this…
Emergency legislation to allow the government to borrow more money passed the Senate Tuesday, with just hours to spare before the national debt was slated to hit its ceiling. The Senate vote was 74-26. The bill now heads to President Barack Obama for his signature.…
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and possible presidential candidate Sarah Palin lambasted Vice President Joe Biden Monday night for negative comments he allegedly made about the Tea Party. Biden was reported by Politico on Monday to have agreed with an argument by Rep. Mike Doyle of…
I learned those two words (personal responsibility) as a child and continue to live by them on a daily basis. They are also two words that seem to be quickly escaping the vocabulary of most Americans. It's really not that hard of a concept to…
Ohio University, set in an Appalachian town known for its rowdy Halloween bashes, has been named the nation’s No. 1 party school, pushing the University of Georgia down a slot in the 2011 Princeton Review survey released Monday. Ohio was No. 2 in last year’s…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
