We sports fans have survived the Super Bowl and now are headed toward spring training and the next mega-sports event of the year -- March Madness. Dunno if the Gonzaga Bulldogs men's team will be there. But the Lady Zags will be. I went for…
"They're like an old married couple," said Jim Ackerman about his bulldogs Buster, left and Beulah while playing solitaire on his front porch in Coeur d'Alene on Monday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)
According to a new analysis from polling firm Gallup, Idahoans are more pessimistic about the national economy than most. The state was among the ten least confident, tied with Nevada, Florida and Ohio. Gallup explains there aren’t clear patterns among the states that register the…
5:43 p.m. Caller reports unattended death @ Horsehaven & Greensferry/Idaho. 5:37 p.m. CdA area man contacts police re: neighbor seeing his son shoot a stop sign today. 5:11 p.m. An undisclosed medical emergency is reported @ Comfort Inn, 2304 4th/CdA. 5:02 p.m. Caller in 1500…
A crowd of people showed up at Hauser Lake recently for the Idaho Fish and Game Department "Take Me Fishing" event. Visitors were able to check out fishing gear for free and fish through the ice with no fishing license required. IFG employees and other…
A Post Falls man wanted on a felony warrant for failure to appear in court to face charges of felony DUI is at the head of the weekly warrants class of sheriff's Major Ben Wolfinger. Bail of $25,000 has been set for Richard Frank Huston,…
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We need more fun in our lives. I keep wanting to do something silly and outrageous. Like, skip down the sidewalk. Can you imagine? Picture driving down the street and then glancing over at a gray-haired woman, skipping and laughing beside you. I wonder if…
At Idaho Scenic Images, Linda Lantzy offers this photo of aspens in the Caribou Mountains. 10 things we found out while de-flooding the basement/A Butterfly Moment Ex-Beatles flooding the marketplace/Atmospheric Ruminations Spokane in Text: Recent dialogue mentioning Lilac City/Blush Response Surrounded by blizzard in Midwest/Community…
Vice President Joe Biden poses for a photo with an uncooperative baby after his speech at the Florida State University Basketball Training Facility Monday in Tallahassee, Fla. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)
The Idaho Republican Party announced today that five Republican Presidential Candidates have qualified for the first-ever Idaho Republican Party Presidential Caucus that will take place in every county across the state on March 6, commonly known as Super Tuesday. The five candidates who have qualified…
Dalton Gardens Rep. Vito Barbieri proposed legislation this afternoon to ease Idaho's rules on sales of raw milk, and ran into opposition in the House Agriculture Committee, whose members noted that extensive work was done just last year to revise Idaho's rules for raw milk.…
The House Environment, Energy & Technology Committee has voted to introduce Rep. Shannon McMillan's non-binding memorial calling for the EPA to pull out of the Silver Valley and halt its Superfund cleanup there within five years, with two “no” votes, one abstention and some concerns…
Months from now, you'll be itching to get into the backcountry to pick Idaho's famous wild huckleberries crop. But for now berry bushes are hibernating while cold nights prevail. Peck Cox/As The Lake Churns provides this photo of a frozen bush from Priest Lake country.
3 of the many stories from the latest Downtown Coeur d'Alene Bar Report? Intoxicated female with dress around waist and breasts exposed fighting with several other females and males. Multiple subjects walking and female has lost shoes and is bleeding from various injuries. Suspicious male…
The maternal grandparents of Josh Powell's two sons say the boys were playing happily Sunday and didn't want to visit their father. Charles and Judy Cox tell KIRO-TV that the grandmother talked them into a supervised child custody visit with their father. When the boys…
Unless you're steeped in Idaho politics, you've probably never heard of Frank VanderSloot. But the wealthy Republican businessman and people like him around the country are wielding outsized influence on the 2012 presidential election. VanderSloot is part of a new breed of high-end campaign donor,…
The Butte man who instigated a police chase just to see what it would be like found out: It cost him $1,000. John C. Hughes, 55, pleaded guilty Thursday in Butte city court to misdemeanor reckless driving while eluding a peace officer. City Judge Dan…
Madonna performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots Sunday in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) Madonna's half-time performance at the Super Bowl was, by all accounts, a success. But it still generated…
11:39 p.m. Hugh contacts local law enforcement b/c he hasn't heard from son in 5 days. 11:29 p.m. Woman wants has questions for animal control re: her dead cat. 11:18 p.m. A disabled Dodge Ram pickup is partly blocking outside lane of H95 @ Mica…
Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, sponsored legislation in the House today to add Special Needs Recreation of Coeur d'Alene to the list of charities and youth rehab organizations to which donations are eligible for a tax credit. Nonini praised the group, which provides recreational opportunities…
Marshall Haferkamp, not shown, is keeping his triple triplet lambs in the same pen in order to keep a closer eye on them, at his sheep ranch near Miles City, Mont. Haferkamp said this unusual bounty of babies all dropped in his pasture within two…
"The number of trees on the dike? Exactly 705. The good folks at North Idaho College walked it recently" -- TerryatKEA via Twitter.
Oh, great. I just finished reading a book by John Steinbeck and now I owe him another apology. Pity that he's dead. He was also dead the first time I owed him an apology. In fact, it was his dying that made me so regretful…
Astonishing fact about being a grandparent No. 23: After decades of your children doing exactly what you've told them not to do, rebelling against your core values and tossing your counsel to the wind, suddenly your grown children want you to be an influence on…
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.
