On her new blog, Scanner Traffic, Alison Gene Smith of the Twin Falls Times News offers insight re: her newspaper's tracked the story a Gooding man who was driving around claiming to have a hostage and a bomb in his truck. You can read that…
On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson posts: "Splish splash sparrows having a pool party on the patio."
Coeur d’Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate’s Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it to graduate from high school. When Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene,…
At JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery, JeanC offers these mouth-watering puffs, stating: "Made gluten free puffs yesterday and roasted a pork roast. So lunch today was pork and cheese stuffed in the puffs and heated in the toaster oven." More here. Bungee/Tumblewords Idaho's low…
On his Facebook wall, Idaho Sen. Branden Durst, D-Boise, tells of a brief conversation with anti-Obamacare individuals after today's first meeting on the top of health insurance exchange: "While leaving the 1st hearing on state-run health insurance exchange, I was approached by some folks that…
In his Reagan Republican newsletter, which is now called the Kootenai Weekly Conservative, Jeff Ward issues a call to arms to "finish the work" his organization started two years ago by introducing partisanship to nonpartisan local elections: "Just two years ago Reagan Republicans and our…
For years medical professionals have gone back and forth about caffeine and its effects on people. We have heard it is terrible for you and then find out about newly discovered benefits the following month. As a coffee consumer myself, sometimes I get confused whether…
Councilman Dan Gookin was cleaning out his files when he ran across this photo of the Coeur d'Alene post office, taken about a year ago. The posting on Dan's Facebook wall prompted one commenter to say that the photo "makes me crazy. we built a…
Crime Stoppers of the Inland Northwest is offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest in the 18 recent cases of graffiti in Coeur d’Alene. Since Dec. 1, graffiti has been left on buildings and businesses throughout the downtown corridor, a news release…
At KXLY, chief meterologist Kris Crocker is celebrating National Weatherperson Day by (drum roll, puh-LEEZ) -- calling in sick. No, she's not dogging it. Kris is sick in bed. On her Facebook wall, she posts: It's National Weatherperson's Day, but I'm in bed with the…
4:54 p.m. A vagrant is in Starbucks area of Safeway store, 121 W. Neider/CdA. 4:39 p.m. Caller wants police to check condition of person behind Radio Shack, 131 Appleway. 4:17 p.m. CPD Blue has taken adult female into protective custody. Unknown location. 2:36 p.m. Mary…
On his Slice Facebook wall, Paul Turner posts this www.usgwarchives.net poster from the old Farragut Naval Base days during World War II. Do you know anyone stationed at Farragut during WWII. Bordering on tartar sauce/Paul Turner, The Slice Wellness at midlife/Catherine Johnston, End Notes Savory…
Bill Berg loads hay into his tractor before feeding his small herd of cattle at Ridge Ranch in Hygiene, Colo., last week. Three years ago, Berg was yielding about 1,000 bales of hay from his fields. It was plenty for him to feed his small,…
Wayne Hoffman, executive director of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, is being given leeway to take extra time at this afternoon’s Senate committee hearing as the lead opponent of the governor’s health exchange bill, SB 1042. Hoffman, who delivered to the committee what he said was…
Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter this morning told a crowd of county officials he’s not sure the Legislature will be able to come up with a plan for eliminating Idaho’s personal property tax. “Whether we’re going to get anything done this year or not, I can’t…
Education groups are expected to meet again later this week to continue discussing seven collective bargaining bills — controversial proposals that contain elements from the defeated Proposition 1. The parties met for three hours Monday with Senate Education Committee Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, and…
Some people choose to call out sick after Super Bowl, but a Post Falls man was honest about missing work this week. Kyle Messier of tried to buy a $20 lottery ticket from the Frontier Grocery store, but the shop didn’t have any. He bought…
a statue of a logger stands outside an elementary school in St. Maries, near where a survivalist group plans to build a compound. The proposal is called the Citadel and has created a buzz among folks in this remote logging town 70 miles southeast of…
11:40 a.m. Logging truck reportedly speeding at 90 mph n/b on H95 @ Cougar Bay. 11:32 p.m. PFPD Blue is en route to county juvenile hall w/male juvenile in custody. 11:09 a.m. PFPD Blue has located 14YO runaway named Tyson. 10:26 a.m. Vandalism to property…
Fish & Game Commissioner Joan Hurlock will face a confirmation vote of the Senate Resources Committee on Wednesday. An avid fisherman, she has faced an uphill confirmation battle. More here. (Eye on Boise photo: Betsy Russell) The House has voted 61-9 in favor of HR…
U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, addresses at a town-hall meeting Thursday in Meridian. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Darin Oswald) Raul R. Labrador is the only Puerto Rican, Mormon, tea-party immigration lawyer in Congress, which the Idaho Republican figures makes him the perfect bridge between the…
Monday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation doesn't think the 2013 Legislature will add the words "sexual orientation and gender identity" to the Idaho Human Rights Act. 118 of 151 respondents (78.15%) said the Legislature wouldn't add the words this year. Only 22 of 151 respondents (14.57%)…
IHOP’s eighth annual National Pancake Day is underway at the California-based restaurant chain’s 1550-plus locations across the United States. From 7 am to 10 pm, IHOP is offering diners a complimentary pancake shortsack (that’s two to three pancakes, in pancake-speak; IHOP’s has three). In return,…
The German shepherd Montana gives 15-year-old Jake Sass of Coeur d’Alene a hearty tug while Jake rides on his long board. Jake and his family walked along the Snake River levee path in sunshine Monday morning. (Lewiston Tribune photo: Barry Kough) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR…
Chanda Kline undergoes treatment to have her tattoos removed at Tallman Dermatology in Billings, Mont. Here, Kline tolerates a series of injections to numb the area before having laser treatment. After spending three years in the Montana Women’s Prison on felony drug possession and forgery…
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.
