Someone asked me this morning which team would I have preferred to see my San Francisco 49ers play next Sunday -- Atlanta or Seattle? I wanted Seattle to win even though the Seahawks pulverized the 49ers a few weeks back. I know many of you…
Kootenai County Commissioner Jai Nelson holds the grandson of new county Sheriff Ben Wolfinger during swearing-in ceremonies before a packed house this morning. (Duane Rasmussen photo special to Huckleberries Online)
On her Facebook wall, Katrina Swaim cheers: "Yay! Gas is $2.84! I'm simultaneously excited about it and dismayed that I've been conditioned to think of $2.84/gallon as a good price." Question: I agree with Katrina. We've been conditioned to think $2.84 is a decent price…
A tow truck operator hauls off a damaged vehicle following a crash shortly after 8 this morning on Interstate 90 near Pleasantview interchange. Vehicles are still sliding off and crashing this afternoon as they were this morning, as road remain icy. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley)…
Mary Wolfinger pins something on her husband Ben's shirt at the swearing-in ceremonies this morning at the Kootenai County Courthouse. A badge, mebbe? A packed house watched the swearing-in ceremonies involving Ben Wolfinger, Commissioners Dan Green and Todd Tondee, and Prosecutor Barry McHugh. Wolfinger, the…
Rob Sacre, the former Gonzaga Bulldog, is beginning to make his way in the NBA, with the Los Angeles Lakers. Jim Meehan of the SR's SportsLink, caught up with Sacre to provide a report re: how he's doing. Story here. Clothes connection can be misleading/The…
During his swearing in, County Clerk Cliff Hayes read off a ha-huge check of the oath and expected Barry to remember and repeat it. Barry made him him back up and say it again. Ben Wolfinger did better. He had his father-in-law, Judge Gene Marano,…
During the LCDC meeting Thursday, Commissioner Brad Jordan commented that a proposed $4 million increase in the scope of the McEuen Field project wasn't caused by cost overrruns. Rather, he said, the increase is a result of a decision to add features that had been…
Click below for AP reporter John Miller's full report on how lawmakers in both the House and Senate balked today at voting on proposed new rules for use of the state Capitol grounds and surrounding areas, aimed at restricting public protests. The 39 pages of…
Miss Montana charmed the entire nation Saturday night. Alexis Wineman, the first Miss America Pageant contestant with autism, was given the pageant’s America’s Choice award after garnering the most viewer votes during an online competition. The distinction gave Wineman the chance compete in Saturday night’s…
Little Maci Davis was more concerned about her dog than the annual Priest Lake Snow Shoe Tournament game being played nearby. (As the Lake Churns photo: Pecky Cox)
U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador says he's waiting to see what happens in Congress and efforts to reform immigration before deciding whether to run for Idaho governor. Labrador is among several Republicans who have been contemplating a bid to be the state's next chief executive. Labrador…
On his Facebook wall, Marc Stewart, spokesman for LCSC Coeur d'Alene, writes: "Aidan sat next to me during the Seahawks game yesterday, asking lots of questions and getting excited about the game. When the Hawks ultimately lost in dramatic fashion, I had to console him…
Lance Armstrong apologized to the staff at his Livestrong cancer foundation -- but did not make a direct confession to using banned drugs -- before heading to his scheduled interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told Associated…
The feud that's broken out into the open between Idaho GOP Congressmen Mike Simpson and Raul Labrador - detailed in a Sunday story in the Idaho Statesman by reporter Dan Popkey - is the top political news of the day in Idaho. Click below for…
On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson asks: "Do any of you do this with your windshield wipers? I never have, but then again my car rarely sits in a parking lot long enough for ice to form. This morning in the Post Falls City Hall…
12:03 p.m. ISP handling two, one-vehicle crashes on I-90 @ 7th Street Bridge/CdA. 11:41 a.m. Kootenai County Fire EMTs en route to 7YO who suffered human bite. 11:26 a.m. Chevy SUV spun around facing traffic on w/b I-90/Huetter rest stop, tying up traffic. 11:27 a.m.…
Weekend Poll: A supermajority of Hucks Nation supports the tentative agreement reached by the city of Coeur d'Alene and Coeur d'Alene School District involving the sale of Person and Byran fields. 85 of 127 respondents (66.93%) support the settlement reached in an open meeting between…
The appeal filed by a group of neighbors regarding a proposed downtown high-rise building will go before the City Council at noon today in the Old Council Chambers at City Hall. The proposed 14-story building would be at 201 Lakeside Ave. Its design was approved…
It's hard to believe it took this long, but the entry to Riverstone off Northwest Boulevard will have its major business this year. It will be Coeur d'Alene's third McDonald's. The 4,300- square-foot building will be surrounded on three sides by Northwest Boulevard, its Lakewood…
Local agencies are anticipating a chomp into their budgets, now that Gov. Butch Otter is urging the legislature to scrap Idaho's personal property tax this year. Losing that revenue source means taxing districts would have to cut services, officials predict, or compensate with other taxes.…
SR photographer Jesse Tinsley offers "then & now" photos of the Coeur d'Alene waterfront in the newspaper today. Above you can see the Coeur d'Alene waterfront of 1945, long before Bob Templin and later Duane Hagadone & Jerry Jaeger developed it into the viewtiful setting…
Miss New York, Mallory Hagan, right, reacts with Miss South Carolina Ali Rogers as she is crowned miss America 2013 on Saturday in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken) Question: Is physical beauty over-rated?
This year's Journalism Kosmos are dominated by the "fact checkers." A few years ago, the news media suffered an infestation of so-called fact checkers. This trend struck yours truly as a bit ironic because journalism was supposedly all about the discovery and dissemination of the…
No matter how bad things got in Idaho, we always had one thing going for us. It was worse in Mississippi. Poverty? Crummy economy? Poorly funded schools? At least Idaho wasn't dead last. Close enough to be ranked the Mississippi of the West. But not…
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.
