This photo combination shows a house on a hillside above Bettas Road near Cle Elum, Wash., surrounded by flames on Tuesday, top, and on Wednesday, bottom. A spokesman for the Washington state Department of Natural Resources said the house survived the fire because of the…
I have my two super-subs warming up in the bullpen to run HucksOnline over the next two weeks -- Christa, next Monday through Wednesday, then Cindy & her cats next Thursday through Aug. 31. Yeah, yeah, I know -- I spend too much time on…
In a poignant post on her Slight Detour blog today, Marianne Love discusses an encounter with former Sandpoint High student Harvey Martin at Harvey's 1982 class reunion -- a man she describes as a "jokester with a good heart." Harvey is the father of soldier…
Publisher Mike Weland of the online News Bonners Ferry describes the scene today as the body of fallen soldier Ethan Martin returned home to Bonners Ferry: "As the cortege passed through Bonners Ferry, chatter stopped. Hands went over hearts, solemn salutes were held as the…
This tomography scan released Thursday by the Miguel Couto hospital, shows the skull of 24-year-old construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him and pierced his…
5:35 p.m. 3 kids are unsecure in back seat of black Nssan Sentra e/b on I-90 @ Pleasantview/PF. 5:32 p.m. Thick smoke but no fire seen from truck disabled @ 22000 H53/Rathdrum. 5:04 p.m. Female (in 4:49 item) has blood on her face; says she…
Rep. Raul Labrador is absolutely right about the plight of our nation’s forests, and the plight of rural communities in Western timber country. A sustainable, well-managed timber harvest will reduce the risk of forest fire — and provide sustainable revenue for rural schools and local…
Coeur d'Alene School Trustee Ann Seddon stands at Canfield Middle School earlier today after a workman put up the lettering on their school sign promoting the levy which would provided badly needed improvements to plant facilities. Seddon led half dozen Republican leaders on a tour…
At Stebbijo's Place, Stebbijo is cooking up a pot of beans -- and hoping that the Idaho Supreme Court will live-stream arguments when it hears the long-running 2009 Coeur d'Alene municipal election case involving challenger Jim Brannon's 3-vote loss to incumbent Councilman Mike Kennedy. Writes…
Is the economy suddenly so robust that taxpayers are just overflowing with money—such that local governments are again reaching back into our pockets for wads of falling cash? I’m just wondering because all across Idaho some of our government agencies are operating as if the…
KXLY provides this photo on its Facebook wall of the mourners along the road who greeted the return of fallen soldier Ethan Martin's body on its way back to Bonners Ferry this morning. A North Idaho soldier killed in action in Afghanistan last week returned…
The Idaho State Board of Education voted Friday to give the University of Idaho authority to become a Football Bowl Subdivision independent and negotiate and accept an invitation to the Big Sky. The board's motion also allows Idaho to join the Big Sky in football.…
Item: Family Research Council, Southern Poverty Law Center has war of words over shooting/Washingon Times A Facebook Friend writes: "We all have heard about the recent shooting at the Family Research Council in Washington D.C., which champions traditional family values, Man-Woman marriage, etc. The Southern…
Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for their protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin, an outcome supporters described as the Kremlin leader's "personal revenge". The group's backers burst into chants of…
Since Cindy will be subbing for me midweek on next week, I thought I'd get a jump on her cat photos by posting this one from Oregon online bud Robin Loznak, who writes on his Facebook wall: "One of the cats killed a wild rabbit…
On the Citizens for a Positive Coeur d'Alene Facebook wall, Nancy White posts today: "I am THANKFUL for the cacophony of construction noise outside my window that begins every morning at 7:00am because it means people have jobs, are going to work every day, and…
A Riverside High School teacher is fighting for his job after being dismissed for having sex on school grounds with a former student. Allen Martin thinks the school district is being too harsh. The district, however, contends the behavior raises too many concerns. School was…
A Berry Picker has sent Huckleberries the following SOS note from Bob Brooke to Pachyderms: "Our new (conservative) School Board for District 271 is strongly behind the School Bond election to raise funds to repair and renovate the physical structures and design of some of…
Trail ride wrangler Erin Bolster and her famous steed, Tonk, were greeting fans at the Western Montana Fair in Missoula last week to celebrate the 1st anniversary of their heroic encounter with a grizzly bear near Glacier National Park. More from Rich Landers/SR here. (AP…
Almost 20,000 more Idahoans had jobs this July compared to last. The Idaho Department of Labor reports July’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate dropped two-tenths of a percentage point from June to 7.5 percent. That’s a three-year low, and it’s better than the national rate of…
Thursday Poll: By an almost 3-to-1 margin, Hucks Nation said boys are easier to rear than girls. 53 of 121 respondents (43.8%) said boys are easier to bring up. Only 19 of 121 (15.7%) respondents said girls are easier to raise. 19 (15.7%) said both…
Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews flips his hair before a preseason NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns Thursday in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) Question: Did you ever have long hair?
Harlan J. Edmonds has harbored a major bugaboo against Wyoming RINOs (Republicans in name only) since he first came to the state in 1993 while working for the U.S. Department of Defense at F.E. Warren Air Force Base. He arrived with the expectation of finding…
The University of Idaho's plan to seek state funding to expand its Boise law program won approval Thursday rom the Board of Education, but not without concerns from one trustee that the cart was getting ahead of the horse. The Moscow university is now offering…
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.