An Alcurrucen's ranch fighting bull looks at a pink capote during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of…
What a glorious weekend! Fireworks, lake time, sunshine, barbecuing.... Kind of makes Monday seem even harsher. Where I really want to be right now is sipping coffee in the gorgeous gazebo in my backyard. Where I am is at my desk with deadlines breathing down…
When Eliza Webb found a stranger’s cellphone inside her ransacked car last month, it didn’t take a lot of sleuthing to determine two things: one, the cellphone probably belonged to the person who’d prowled her car; and two, the culprit was likely a teen. Webb,…
No need to be alarmed. Thor isn't really dead, he's just reenacing his near death experience. You see, this afternoon I accidentally shut him in the linen closet. I kept hearing this scratching sound while I was eating lunch. He was only in there about…
BOISE – Tax-protesting former Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart denies that he hid any assets or income, and charges that the U.S. Justice Department attorney in his case is the one who’s made false statements, according to newly filed documents. “None of his allegations are…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Department of Ecology employee gave 85 hours of free massages at work last year as she practiced to become a massage therapist, according to an audit report released Monday. The State Auditor’s Office said in its findings that the unnamed…
SAN ANTONIO — Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history who famously muttered “oops” after forgetting during a 2011 presidential debate the third of three federal departments he’d pledged to close, announced Monday he won’t seek re-election next year to a fourth full term.…
(PHOTO: The crowd enjoys Single Wide during the Arbor Crest Sunday Concert Series in July 2011. Sunday concerts cost $5.) Free movies, concerts and festivals abound from downtown Spokane to Liberty Lake to Coeur d'Alene. What's your favorite family-friendly summer activity in the Inland Northwest…
Large Idaho employers would face millions in costs if the state declines to expand its Medicaid program, according to a new report from the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry. “For us, it's a business-numbers issue,” IACI President Alex LaBeau told Idaho Statesman reporter Audrey…
This architect's rendering of the proposed University District bridge for bikes and pedestrians shows the view looking toward downtown. Perhaps lost in the recent debate about a proposed pedestrian bridge in Spokane’s University District is its massiveness. It wouldn’t be an inconspicuous walkway like the…
SR file photo According to my son, today is Video Game Day. So, I asked him, "How is this different from any other day for you?" Silence. That's what I thought. Back in the day when I had free time, I was a whiz at…
In this file photo a girl feasts on huckleberries during the Schweitzer Huckleberry Festival. In the latest edition of Sandpoint Magazine and on her blog Slight Detour, Marianne Love writes of Joe Nieman, the Huckleberry King. "This Porthill native and Co-Op front-counter clerk owns a…
BOISE – Idaho’s crime rate dropped 1.5 percent in 2012, according to the new Crime in Idaho report, continuing a five-year decline, but the number of violent crimes – murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault – increased 5.2 percent. That was partly due to…
Spokane teenager Mitchell Raymond drowned Saturday in a swimming accident at Blue Lake south of Coeur d’Alene. Divers removed his body today. Raymond, 14, was a student at All Saints Catholic School in Spokane. “May God give His comfort to Mitchell’s family and our community,”…
For many, Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven” is unmatched. LOS ANGELES – It won’t be only Disney executives who are watching the box office returns for “The Lone Ranger” this weekend. Lots of people are wondering whether Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer can ride to the rescue…
Claudia Lowry and Bob Bloem have been working on Lowry’s Hayden garden for about 10 years. One of the high points of summer is the Coeur d’Alene Garden Club’s annual garden tour. It will feature five gardens in Coeur d’Alene, Dalton Gardens and Hayden, and…
The downtown core lies in ruins as firefighters continue to water smoldering rubble Sunday in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec – About 40 people were still missing a day after a runaway train derailed in Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a busy downtown district…
Those crazy kids at Open Cda are at it again. A recent post points out the two guys riding Segways in the parade, touting Souza for Mayor campaign signs. Writes Bill, "It is subtle but appropriate that a Segway would symbolically lead a movement to…
The Idaho State Police is running an “all hands on deck” operation for enhanced patrols on this holiday weekend, with all commissioned officers, even those who usually work behind a desk, hitting the road as the holiday weekend opened July 3. David Frazier of the…
COEUR d'ALENE - A North Idaho couple filed a lawsuit against Kootenai County and county officials saying the wife, a county employee, was improperly terminated. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Coeur d'Alene by the couple's attorney, Larry Beck of Hayden, said the…
COEUR d'ALENE - A drug and alcohol treatment facility is seeking a special use permit to operate in east Coeur d'Alene. Problem is, it's already operating there - and has been since 1991. Only recently did the city learn that Port of Hope, the sober…
This aerial photo shows the wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday. SAN FRANCISCO – The pilot at the controls of an Asiana plane that crash-landed was guiding a Boeing 777 into the San Francisco airport for…
BOISE – From the Ruby Ridge standoff to tribal ownership of Lake Coeur d’Alene, from Claude Dallas to Sami al-Hussayen, from mining damage in the Coeur d’Alene Basin to the death penalty trial of child-killer Joseph Duncan, one judge presided. That judge, U.S. District Judge…
Andy Murray of Britain reacts after winning against Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the Men's singles final match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Sunday, July 7, 2013. LONDON (AP) — From the lawns of Wimbledon to the lochs of Scotland,…
BOSTON – Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday while on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island. Heinz Kerry, 74, was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday…
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.
