This is a rough day at the Casa Oliveria. Just got back from putting our beagle, Snoopy, down. Poor little guy got an eye disease that he couldn't shake. Plus he had other ailments of age. And was suffering quietly. He's no longer doing so.…
Sea gulls sit in row in the Baltic Sea harbor of Stralsund, northeastern Germany on Tuesday. Weather forecasts predict sunny but cold weather for the next few days. (AP Photo/dpa, Stefan Sauer)
After the Idaho State Board of Education approved the University of Idaho's request to seek membership in the Sun Belt Conference, athletic director Rob Spear confirmed via Twitter that UI will join its old conference in football only in 2014. Spear tweeted: “I want to…
5:21 p.m. Injury accident 12th/Spokane, Post Falls. 5:09 p.m. Officer has located a discarded bike in Falls Park. 4:57 p.m. EMT is with injured motorist bleeding extensively from face. Undisclosed location. 4:45 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report March 26-27 here. 4:38 p.m. Crash…
Borah Elementary 5th graders from left Morgan Wingham, Madelyn Engels and Jazmin Winn, front toured Lakes Middle Magnet School in Coeur d'Alene recently.The group will make the transition from elementary to middle school in September. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Sun Belt welcomes UI football back/Josh…
HB 176, Coeur d’Alene GOP Rep. Kathy Sims’ bill to ban Idaho voters who’ve moved overseas from voting in state or local elections, has been defeated by a single vote in the Senate. The bill was just voted down, 17-18, after senators raised concerns about…
Don Sausser provides another sure sign of spring ... feeding the gulls at Coeur d'Alene's City Beach. Near moose/Slight Detour Inevitable/Johnson Report Moving the Coeur/Randy Stapilus Tom Hearn for school board/Bay Views When mad men rule/Dogwalk Musings The dark art of 'radiator capping'/The EDge Contradictions…
Remember this lesson wherever you are: if you want a long life then don’t steal a car. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
The State Board of Education announced today that Don Burnett will serve as interim president at the University of Idaho. Burnett, who is dean of the college of law, will lead the school as it searches for a successor to Duane Nellis. The Texas Tech…
Randy Stapilus, long-time observer of Idaho politics, posted this comment re: Your Huckleberry Hound Tuesday: There was a time not so long ago that Dave Oliveria, the Spokesman-Review‘s columnist/blogger for northern Idaho, was clearly sympathetic with the area’s ascendant Republican politicians. He’s a self-described himself…
Here's a graphic by SR's Molly Quinn showing some of the plans for the expansion of John Stone's Riverstone development. A 5,000-seat sports arena, regional transit center and technology-based "discovery center" are among the features planned for the Riverstone development, along the Spokane River in…
You don't have to be an expert on current events to win our weekly news quiz, but it can't hurt! All entrants this week are eligible to win movie tickets, and the overall champ will win a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel. Good…
With blood running down his face, Latah County GOP Chairman Walter Steed had a clear message for his fellow Republicans on Tuesday night - "I am not resigning." Twelve Latah County Republican precinct committeemen last month passed a vote of no confidence in Steed after…
Kevin Richert of IdahoED NEWS analyzes the historic Idaho Senate vote rejecting the education budget: JFAC must write a new budget — and as a matter of procedure, the committee will have to come out with a different bottom-line number than the $1,308,365,400 general fund…
A basketball clears the net during La Salle practice for a regional semifinal game in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Los Angeles Wednesday. La Salle plays Wichita State Thursday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Question: Now that Gonzaga's gone ... who do you think will…
Neil Oliver, chairman of the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee, sent out this email at 11:20 Tuesday night: As you have probably heard, Tom Malzahn has decided not to retire. Therefore, the special meeting that was scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, to nominate three candidates…
... That the Uber-Uber-Cons of the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee denied a vacant precinct seat to Jeff Ward of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans last night on a 35-20 vote. A handful of proxy votes went to Ward's successful challenger in the Precinct 23…
On his Facebook site, appointed Coeur d'Alene School Board Trustee Brent Regan comments re: being well received at the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee last night. The evening started with a legislative update via teleconference. Then, Regan posts, "The five solid conservatives (not the freshly…
The man who shot a car thief Monday is 56-year-old Gail Gerlach, according to a search warrant returned Wednesday. Gerlach, of 1419 N. Lee St., owns a plumbing business and has no criminal record. Spokane County Prosecutors have not charged Gerlach in the shooting death…
Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, who led the historic move in the Senate to defeat the public school budget today – after it had cleared the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on a 15-5 vote and passed the House 52-16 – said after the vote…
Christie's scientific specialist James Hyslop holds up a chicken egg to scale the size of a sub-fossilised pre-17th century Elephant Bird egg as he poses for photographs at the auction house's premises in London, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The Elephant Bird egg, which is estimated…
... That at least one candidate for an elective office at the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee meeting last night said s/he is running to get rid of Communists and socialists in the system. P'haps Communist witch hunts and loyalty oaths are in order again.…
Controversial Councilman Steve Adams was well received at the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee meeting last night. In fact, the Powers That Be invited Coeur d'Alene School Trustee Brent Regan, Chris Fillios and Adams to count the ballots for a vote to fill a vacant…
Jeff Selle, one of Huckleberries own, is returning to the journalism game, after years of wandering in the public relations wilderness. Jeff will rejoin the Coeur d'Alene Press. I first met Jeff years ago when he was pounding the Post Falls beat for the Press.…
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. announced this morning that it will move its corporate headquarters to Chicago in the third quarter of 2013. The company, which had been located in downtown Coeur d'Alene since 1985, had disclosed late last December that it was considering the move.…
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.
