My son texted from Florida today: "It's freezing here -- 51 degrees and windy." Seems the kid has forgotten his Montana/Idaho roots. 51 degrees generally is a heat wave in the Inland Northwest this time of the year (although no local will complain about the…
On his Facebook wall, Robin Loznak of Kellogg, Ore., posts this photo and the comment: "Take a look at this little beauty. I've been stalking mushrooms." You can see more of Robin's outdoor photography here.
Cindy tells Huckleberries that she's covering a premiere at Riverstone Cinemas tonight: "RED CARPET MOVIE PREMIERE: kNIFVES (Northwest Independent Film & Video Entertainment Society) presents the Red Carpet World Premiere of its Holiday Short Film "Without A Ladder," starring Jack Bannon and Tiger Ashtiani, Wednesday,…
Gary Kender talks about food like he's telling a love story. He links good food with good memories, whether he's recalling a recent meal at a Spokane restaurant, cooking meals for his five kids or recounting the steak dinner he shared with his wife on…
In this Duane Rasmussen file photo, legislative District 2's V-Squared -- Rep. Vito Barbieri, left, and Sen. Steve Vick -- are featured speakers at a Kootenai County Reagan Republican luncheon. Barbieri and Vick will be part of a informational panel with southern Idaho senators Steve…
The Corbett Middle School football team arrives at Hooters on Hayden Island for their team party Saturday in Portland, Ore. Volunteer coach Randy Burbach was fired from his volunteer position at the middle school because he decided to take his players to Hooters for a…
Coeur d’Alene Police Officers are in the 7700 block of Joanna Drive (Atlas & Prairie). looking for a male suspect that approached a 13 year-old female. At about 2:40 p.m., the child reported, she walked out to her mailbox near her home. The victim said…
On his Facebook wall, Don Sausser posted this photo of the fog lifting at Kidd Island Bay Tuesday morning. Asking for a friend/Fort Boise Kennedy/From A Simple Mind Streaming on Wednesday/Slight Detour It takes (only) a village/End Notes Farm Bill politics/Carlson Chronicles Facts of the…
Walkabout (RE: McEuen Park isn't open yet): Part of the reason for this problem could be that all access to Tubbs is blocked on the resort side of the park. Several times after the dock was torn out I saw people walking into the construction…
1 World Trade Center, center, overlooks the wedge-shaped pavilion entrance of the National September 11 Museum, lower right, and the square outlines of the memorial waterfalls in New York. According to the nonprofit Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, 1 World Trade Center, once…
3:16 p.m. Older male driver of blue station wagon appears to be falling asleep @ e/b I-90/Spokane Street, Post Falls. 2:58 p.m. Male driver in Navy blue vehicle waving hands, weaving @ n/b H95/Prairie, Hayden. 1:57 p.m. 2 males engaged in physical fight @ 600…
I picked up the following objects of interest during my walk/little patrol along the waterfront today: an Albertsons coupon good for $1 off on next shopping order (expiring Friday). A king-size Nestle Strawberry Shortcake ice cream wrapper. A debit card receipt for $1000 paid to…
Check out the new Coeur d'Alene Press photojournalism Facebook page, featuring work by Shawn Gust and Gabe Green here. Thoughts?
You would have to be living in a cave (without an Internet connection) in order to miss the avalanche of books, television specials and other commemorations during the run up to the 50th anniversary of the murder of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.…
Keith Erickson/LCDC provides Huckleberries with this photo of the new Front Avenue, part of which will open next week. The parking garage will open Nov. 27. Photo was taken at 11 o'clock this morning, from 6th Street, looking west. McEuen parking facility to open by…
The annual fall-winter congregation of bald eagles at Lake Coeur d'Alene appears to have started, barely. Carrie Hugo, U.S. Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologist, counted three adult bald eagles in the Wolf Lodge Bay area on Tuesday during the first of the weekly bald…
Despite the rapidly progressing work, the city remind the public that McEuen Park is not open to the public. The grand opening is set for late next spring. Officials have had problems keeping the public away from the park, including one arrest last weekend for…
More than 106,000 Americans selected health plans in the first reporting period of open enrollment for the new health insurance marketplace, according to data released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services. That number is only "about 20 percent of the government's October…
The National Association of Gun Rights PAC, which calls itself America’s fastest-growing gun rights organization, is endorsing Idaho Falls lawyer Bryan Smith’s insurgent challenge to eight-term Idaho GOP Rep. Mike Simpson. “(Smith’s) views on gun rights and rights in general don’t come as lip service…
With Thanksgiving around the corner, federal agencies are starting to advertise Christmas tree permits. “Save money, get outside and enjoy the crisp winter air,” Colville National Forest spokesman Franklin Pemberton wrote in a news release. (Illustration: Molly Quinn) Question: Where do you get your Christmas…
Tuesday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation opposes the perk that allows elected officials in Idaho to carry a concealed weapon without obtaining a permit to do so. 184 of 281 respondents (84.4%) oppose the concealed weapon perk for elected officials. Only 31 of 281 respondents (14.22%)…
11:44 a.m. Patrol officers are looking for speeding motorcyclist in black who's @ s/b H41 from Rathdrum McDonalds. 11:39 a.m. Caller reports driver of red Subaru passed her on e/b I-90/Spokane Street onramp. 11:23 a.m. Driver of white semi w/Montana plates reportedly speeding on e/b…
Bruce Reed will leave his job as chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden to become president of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, a philanthropic group with a wide range of interests including the arts and public school reform. Reed has been Biden’s…
Former Gonzaga basketball player Winston Brooks was sworn in by Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub on Tuesday. (Photo: KXLY) Winston Brooks is used to wearing a uniform, but his used to be marked #1. As a former Gonzaga great from 2001-2003, he is still often…
Mya Cabrera, 14, hugs her father Senior Chief Petty Officer Juan Cabrera Tuesday in Nampa. Cabrera had just finished reading a poem during a special veterans assembly at Nampa High School about how she missed her father, who has been deployed in Kuwait and Afghanistan…
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.
