Pedestrians make their way along a flooded road while vehicles make slow progress in heavy traffic on Thursday, Aug 22, 2013, in Yangon, Myanmar. Heavy rains on Thursday evening caused road flooding and traffic congestion in many parts of Yangon. Do you enjoy rain?
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Dave is taking the next couple days off for some much needed R&R time with family. I don't mind blogsitting. I've been part of the HucksOnline family since I first became a Spokesman Review columnist way back in 2006 or so. My mama graduated from…
EWU linebacker Ronnie Hamlin smiles during practice on Wednesday, August 14, 2013, at the EWU practice field in Cheney, Wash Tyler Tjomsland SR photo Over at the Slice blog Paul Turner writes: It must hurt like hell when football players with exceptionally long hair feel…
Deep shadows are reflected against a granite wall as rafters unload their boats at Lower Cliffside camp on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River Sept. 19th, 2008. In the last month, about 50 people have reported getting ill while rafting or working on the…
Meridian -- Investigators suspect a 23-year-old man attacked a 15-year-old boy, stole the teen's skateboard, kicked a dog, struck a construction worker with shovel, broke into an apartment, assaulted a woman, tipped over a man in a wheelchair, broke windows out of a house, and…
Surveillance photos of the 2 suspects. An 89-year-old veteran is dead after he was attacked Wednesday night in North Spokane. The victim, Delbert Belton, was a World War II veteran living in Spokane, according to his family. Spokane Police said in a news release that…
Larry Gilman, Becky Funk, Mary Souza and Cristy Turnipseed. Duane Rasmussen photo. Apparently Mary's tents sparkles with eye-catching white lights! Looks like everyone is having fun at the North Idaho Fair.
Duane Rasmussen photo. Jim Brannon appears to be holding up the KCRR tent at the North Idaho Fair. Is it me or is this the same outfit Jim was wearing last week?
Duane Rasmussen provided photos of all 3 candidates in the Cda mayor's race at the North Idaho Fair. Here's the first. Steve Widmeyer seems to be having a good time.
The North Idaho Violent Crimes Task Force (NIVCTF) is seeking information leading to the apprehension of Craig Jason Dwight King. King is being sought based on a Kootenai County felony warrant charging King with Felony Attempted Strangulation and five counts of Battery. This is a…
Kootenai County Fairgrounds General Manager Dane Dugan is seen in a mirror reflection on the opening day of the North Idaho Fair at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds on Wednesday. Kathy Plonka, SR photo Dane Dugan has a confession: “I’m a fair junkie, there’s no denying…
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks.…
The morning sun warms my legs as I write. A pair of white butterflies flit above the petunias, daisies and geraniums that overflow the planters. A slight breeze ruffles the pages of my book. I’m in my happy place, otherwise known as the Great Gazebo.…
Lauren Church, 10, gets her face made up zombie style by Spokane Valley Branch librarian Sonia Gustafson on Tuesday during a zombie program for children. Dan Pelle, SR photo It’s pop culture’s Zombie Apocalypse. Zombies are enjoying a heyday. There is a whole line of…
Some members of the Idaho Legislature’s Federal Lands Interim Committee are suggesting that there is a better way to finance some general fund expenditures in the Gem State: Securing the otherwise federally controlled lands in Idaho and putting them to good use for local and…
Daniel Robinson exhibits his kendama skills to children at the Boys and Girls Club on Aug. 9, in Mead. Dan Pelle, SR photo Within minutes of walking into the Lisa Stiles-Gyllenhammer Boys and Girls Club in Mead, kids surround Daniel Robinson, 23. They swarm him,…
Idaho’s pathway to better public education could come with a hefty price tag and new approaches to strengthening teacher quality. A peek at a preliminary list of recommendations from Gov. Butch Otter’s Task Force for Improving Education shows concern for recouping lost education dollars over…
OLYMPIA – Public hospitals that provide maternity services must also provide access to contraception and abortion, even if they contract with a private company that bars such services, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Wednesday. In a formal attorney general’s opinion, Ferguson said state law,…
Entertainer David Cassidy was pulled over in upstate New York for failing to dim his headlights and charged with DWI after tests showed his blood-alcohol content at 0.10, higher than the state’s legal limit of 0.08, authorities said. Schodack, N.Y., police Lt. Joseph Belardo said…
COEUR d'ALENE - Brooklyn native and New Mexico transplant Howard Meehan knew about Coeur d'Alene's history: its Native American culture, natural resources, lumber mills. The artist had seen pictures of the Lake City, and could visualize the old log yards and water with its sailboats.…
On yesterday's thread re: Widmyer, Meyer Quit Balance North Idaho, ShoshoneConservative makes this point: "4. We are seeking board members who reside in Hayden and Rathdrum to round out our board's county-wide representation." County-wide representation, obviously meaning Kootenai County. So why, then, do they use…
WASHINGTON – American workers and their employers saw another rise in health insurance premiums this year as the total cost of employer-provided health benefits ticked up 4 percent for family plans and 5 percent for individual plans, according to a closely watched national survey. The…
Kootenai County Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Ewing, center, talks with Allan Clark, of Post Falls, after his boat passed a safety check on Lake Coeur d’Alene. Ewing and Deputy Jonathan Traw, right, were on patrol on Friday. In a little more than a week, thousands of…
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.
