I walked and drove through downtown Coeur d'Alene at 8 o'clock Friday night, to check the mood of the partiers after a day out in the sun on the Diamond Cup hydroplane races. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves in the restaurants, taverns and on…
Post Falls' (2) Braden Davenport breaks up a pass intended for Capital receiver Ian Kinkead (13) during a high school football game on Friday at Post Falls High School in Post Falls. Capital shut out Post Falls 35-0. In other high school football openers Friday,…
Councilman Dan Gookin visited Huckleberries Online moments ago to drop off the two wristbands provided to other City Council members and him for free entry into the hydroplane races. DanG doesn't plan to attend the races. So he has given the wrist bands to HucksOnline…
On her Facebook wall, Cindy posts: "When my husband is home he is unfailingly kind and attentive, but when he's at work he tends to get quite focused. I hadn't heard from him all day and worried he forgot how near death I am. So…
Time 2 Vote ... Artist Andy Golub paints one of 25 models in his display of nudist body art on Tuesday in New York's Times Square. Golub made the presentation to support body art and a New York law allowing for the expression of public…
Team FEDCO crew chief Kevin Peterson hands out orders during the time trials of the Coeur d'Alene Diamond Cup hydroplane races in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on Friday. Driver N.Mark Evans, pictured left in the banner will drive the FEDCO sponsored unlimited hydroplane this weekend. Story…
Amber Copeland became the third person this week to file for Coeur d'Alene City Council Seat 4, the position now held by Councilman Woody McEvers. She joins McEvers and Sharon Hebert in the race for the seat. Copeland finished third in a three-way race for…
Colorado's politics have become positively Californian lately. There are new restrictions on guns. Pot is legal. The legislative agenda featured an expansion of alternative-energy use requirements for rural consumers. Gay couples can now enter into civil unions. There's a reason for all this. Lots of…
Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, is now convinced the Assad regime is responsible for an estimated 1,429 deaths of Syrian citizens – including 426 children – with the use of chemical weapons last week in rebel-held or contested neighborhoods east of Damascus. But he believes any…
Miley Cyrus may have been slammed from damn near every angle following her outlandish and sexually forward Video Music Awards performance, but those within her inner circle are elated about how her collaboration with Robin Thicke went. The entire world is suddenly talking about Miley…
No more than two years ago, North Texas football coach Dan McCarney was tossed into an overwhelming mess. In many ways, it’s the same kind of mess that Idaho coach Paul Petrino finds himself in a day before his inaugural game as a collegiate head…
Don Sausser snapped this photo of Diamond Cup hydroplane race activity along the Centennial Trail on Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive, east of Coeur d'Alene today. No questions, no good answers/Fort Boise Mind travels & dialect dilemmas/Slight Detour A frequent candidate looks at guv's race/The EDge…
I got this flyer in the mail this week from Winco, which is looking for employees for its future store @ Appleway & Ramsey. You can find out more information about the hirings here. Question: Are you a Winco fan?
"I love the energy," said Geri Rogers of Coeur d'Alene as she photographed the time trials for the Diamond Cup hydroplane races today. The races continue through the weekend ending Sunday evening. Nathan Weinbender SR story here. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)
Traveling in Ireland for the first time a few years ago I was struck by the fact that everyone – everywhere – seemed to have a book under their arm or clutched in hand. Everyone it seemed was lost in words, heads in books. Crossing…
Herb Huseland of Bayview made quite an impression on the Diamond Cup Board of Directors before he quit in frustration as public announcer Thursday, a day before the return of hydroplane racing to Lake Coeur d'Alene. Huckleberries has received an email that Director John Stone…
A 16-year Post Falls boy has died as a result of injuries he suffered in a three-vehicle crash at Northwest Boulevard and River Avenue in Coeur d'Alene Tuesday afternoon. The Idah State Police report that Quinn J. McKasty has succumbed to his injuries. He was…
Desperate for rest in a frenzied world, at least 8.6 million Americans take prescription sleeping pills to catch some Zzzs, according to the first federal health study to focus on actual use. Between 2005 and 2010, about 4 percent of U.S. adults aged 20 and…
North Idaho College wrestler Bryce Weatherston, from Belgrade, Mont., moves inventory to help provide school supplies during the morning rush of people at the giveaway event. The line of people wrapped around the block in Riverstone as people waited their turn to receive free school…
12:22 p.m. Young male driving white Lincoln Navigator from Montana hit guardrail @ e/b I-90/MP 20 (Memorial Bridge) & kept going. He's in a caravan of three vehicles. 12:02 p.m. Someone is suffering a seizure @ By the Lake Assisted Living, 1027 Honeysuckle. 11:57 a.m.…
Thursday Poll: 85 percent of Hucks Nation wants President Obama to get congressional approval to bomb Syria. 121 of 143 respondents (84.62%) want the president to seek congressional approval and not go it alone. Only 16 of 143 respondents (11.19%) say the president doesn't need…
The Coeur d’Alene Resort is classy and has received worldwide acclaim. How will it explain to clientele the McEuen “rainbow” glowing entrance thought up by Howard Meehan, who had never even visited Coeur d’Alene? It is a gaudy Reno/Las Vegas concoction. Let’s bring in the…
In a flap over a bond issue in Boise, Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation has apologized to a woman who felt threatened by a comment posted by Hoffman subordinate, Dustin Hurst. In a column, Hoffman opposed the bond. Emily Walton, founder of Idaho…
State Rep. Mat Erpelding, D-Boise, who was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives in November, is attempting to hike a 950-mile route the length of Idaho in about 40 days. More from Rich Landers/SR Outdoors here. WSU researcher to develop apple-picking robot/AP Shawn Vestal:…
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.