The "Recent Comments" feature continues to co-exist peacefully with the Disqus comment system. I'm still nervous mentioning this. But I want you to return to using the "Recent Comments" system, which does as it says -- gives you a preview of the latest comments from…
A spectator sits in the sun in front of an advertisement board during the first round of the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Thursday. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
Huckleberries, designated Idaho’s state fruit in 2000, have been ripe for picking for a couple weeks in the low areas of Priest Lake, and the crop is gradually ripening up the mountain slopes throughout the Inland Northwest. Don’t set your purple-tongue ambitions too high, yet.…
5:34 p.m. PFPD officer citing handicap-parking violator in red Chevy Tahoe @ 701 Spokane/PF. 5:19 p.m. Male driving suspected hit-and-run Subaru having psychotic episode @ H95/Silverwood. 5:09 p.m. Motorcyclist almost hit barrier leaving Wolf Lodge Inn area, possibly DUI. 4:52 p.m. Male bleeding from head…
"It's challenging" said Nancy Beam, 13, of Rathdrum as she played her violin during Otis Orchards Strings Camp in Otis Orchards on Tuesday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Kentucky player to transfer to Gonzaga/KHQ Pipebomb explodes in Moscow man's hand/KTVB Farris says he'll run again in…
Coeur d'Alene mayoral candidate Mary Souza speaks to the Panhandle Pachyderm Club at Templins ersort in Post Falls during the lunch hour. Photographer Duane Rasmussen tells Huckleberries: "One matter she discussed was the city of Coeur d'Alene's practice of paying for research and then not…
It has been awhile since we visited the Lake City Development Corp. Web Cam (available by clicking on LCDC tile ad in upper lefthand corner of Huckleberries Online). This is what's going on this afternoon at the new and improving McEuen Field. The construction, I…
Seems some members of the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee aren't satisfied that real Republicans are running in their primaries. On Tuesday, the local Elephants will consider a proposed resolution calling for an ad hoc committee to screen primary candidates to ensure that they're really…
The political silly season is off to an early start with the anti-tax group Club for Growth throwing its financial weight behind Idaho Falls lawyer Bryan Smith in his challenge to eight-term GOP Congressman Mike Simpson. Among Simpson’s outrages, says the club, is attending a…
Idaho’s two House members joined 219 other Republicans Friday, voting for a bill to reverse components of the No Child Left Behind education law. Supporters of H.R. 5, the Student Success Act, say it will return educational control to states and school districts. The change…
Alt-county/traditional American music act Son Volt performs Tuesday night at the Knitting Factory. Son Volt will be playing at the Knitting Factory on Sprague in Spokane Tuesday. Features Editor Carolyn Lamberson interviewed Son Volt guiding force Jay Farrar for the improved Spokane7 section in today's…
Idaho wants gun and ammo makers. Gov. Butch Otter did his best to roll out the welcome mat in May when he announced the state was courting 79 gun and ammo makers to relocate part or all of their operations to Idaho. Commerce Director Jeff…
Condemned double murderer Timonthy Dunlap is suing Idaho state prison officials, contending that the elimination of baloney sandwich lunches on weekends in 2011 constitutes “cruel and unusual” treatment, and that he's lost weight and suffered a heart attack due to low sodium since the change,…
Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre debuts "Romance/Romance" next week at the Schuler Performing Arts Center on the North Idaho College campus. Opening night is Thursday at 7:30 p.m. "Audiences will love this unique show, where they get two love stories in one show," said Roger Welch,…
And now a word from Bent: "Locked and Loaded! Jay and I spent this week cutting up about 600 pounds of top sirloin steaks for the St. Vinny's Steak Fry tomorrow. All the prep is done and we will be grilling up a storm tomorrow...…
Staying icy cool on a hot day, Aliah Mendiola uses a bag of ice for making homemade ice cream to stifle temperatures near 100-degrees Thursday at the Walla Walla YMCA in Walla Walla, Wash. The ice cream making was part of a kid's activity day…
Carolyn Lamberson, features editor of the SR, provides this run-down on coming festivals, music & fun happening in the Inland Northwest: Mobius, for instance, is taking us “Back to the Future” – three times. Two Spokane neighborhoods are highlighting their best with popular festivals: The…
12:01 p.m. Possible crash reported by resident on Cherry Hill Road. 11:57 a.m. Animal bite reported in 1100 block of E. Walnut Ave/CdA. 11:48 a.m. Driver from black Mazda dumping trash along H41/Priest Lake Road. 11:33 a.m. Caller in 2800 block of Julia/CdA reports unwanted…
Royal supporters, right, look on as a couple impersonate Britain's Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge as they pose for photographers, during a publicity stunt for a daily newspaper, outside St. Mary's Hospital in London today. The media are preparing for royal-mania as…
I've been waiting to exhale since I learned that anti-City Hall activist Mary Souza was running for mayor. I knew someone would step forward to oppose her -- and I don't mean Jim Brannon or Joe Kunka. However, I was hoping it wasn't some self-diluted…
Thursday Poll: A large majority of Hucks Nation is bothered by the curent cover of Rolling Stone magazine that shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a rock star pose. 78 of 123 respondents (63.41%) said the cover bothers them. 35 of 123 respondents…
Item: 'We're not anti-environment': Lakeshore property owners group wants more flexibility in land use code/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: CLPOA Vice President Bruce Cyr explained the association's position on the code and urged about 150 lakeshore owners in attendance to make sure to…
"The greeting party was there, as usual on top of Scotchman Peak on Thursday, rewarding my daughter and me for our steep 7-mile-round-trip hike from the northeast corner of Lake Pend Oreille," writes Rich Landers, SR Outdoors. "Mountain goats that live on the Idaho peak…
The Brazilian synchronized swim team perform their routine during a training session ahead of the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, earlier today. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Thursday winner -- Pair of Claws, with 9 votes: "Moments after this photo was…
Oak trees and hornbeam and maple and yew, dogwood and willow and hundreds more too, a bright little brook that runs clear and swift -- thanks Mr. Finch, it's a mighty nice gift. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
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.
