From Diamond Cup organizers moments ago: "Diamond Cup Unlimited, LLC is reluctantly announcing the cancellation of the 2014 Diamond Cup Hydroplane Race. The Kootenai County Sheriff's obdurate refusal to accept an application for a Marine Event permit in conformity with his statutory obligations under Idaho…
A banner flies off the shore of Okaloosa Island in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Friday, over the heads of people fishing on the Okaloosa Island Fishing Pier. The banner was flown by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal is response to a shark…
Paul Turner headlines a post on his Slice blog: "Half a dozen Fridays." Then, in the small print below, he writes: "Not counting today, that's all we have left before Labor Day." Question: Do you have anything big left to do this summer?
The chance to spend a few weeks in France this summer provided both the time and the detachment to reflect – on politics, the U.S. relationship with, as Donald Rumsfeld might say, “old Europe,” history, art and, of course, food and the enjoyment of a…
We've survived temperatures in the upper 90s and almost another week at Huckleberries Central. The blogosphere in the Land of Huckleberries appears calm at the moment. But you know as well as I do that the local blogos is subject to change on a moment's…
A longboarder cruises along Lake Coeur d'Alene as smoke from area fires settles in on Friday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Idaho defends fetal pain abortion law/AP Hayden, Rathdrum ready to celebrate/Press 37 years for fatal grocery shopping hit&run/KREM Fire damages Post Falls home at Townsend…
Thursday Poll: 78 of 126 respondents (61.9%) said police professionally handled the shootout on I-90 at Post Falls June 22. 25 of 126 (19.84%) said the police were not professional. 23 (18.25%) were undecided. Weekend Poll: Should the city of Coeur d'Alene regulate robotics?
5:25 p.m. Bicyclist reports being run off road by white pickup w/Montana plates @ Sherman/Fernan Lake Road. 5:22 p.m. Driver ejected in one-car rollover @ H95/Rockford Bay Road, ambulance en route. 5:05 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for July 17-18 here. 4:57 p.m.…
It’s said to be the fastest growing sport in the U.S. and it’s finally catching on in Coeur d’Alene. Pickleball—a combination of tennis, badminton and ping pong—made its Lake City debut recently with the opening of McEuen Park and courts will soon be striped for…
The media often tells us this lie: if your appearance deviates in any way from cover girls, movie stars, super models, etc., it is a flaw and something is wrong with you. Well, guess what? Miss America 1999 has an insulin pump, and it doesn’t…
John Kelly/BikeCDA tells Huckleberries Online why he's interested in the Coeur d'Alene/CityLink transit center at Riverbend: "A bus (depot) center acts as a hub where all arms of a well designed network should come together and meet; sidewalks for pedestrians and ADA, mass transit, trails…
Wayne Hoffman of Idaho Freedom Foundation reacts to a comment from the audience at the North Idaho Pachyderm Club breakfast in Coeur d'Alene today. Hoffman also spoke at the Panhandle Pachyderm Club luncheon in Post Falls today. (Photo: Duane Rasmussen) At least a few times…
Sierra Sandison, the new Miss Idaho, is shown wearing her insulin pump at Saturday's swimsuit competition at Nampa on Saturday. She has become an online hero to diabetic sufferers by wearing an insulin pump on her bikini bottom during a swimsuit competition. She will compete…
Boise State University officials say they will rescind the security fees they charged a student group for bringing a guns right advocate earlier this year to speak at the campus. However, university attorney Kevin Satterlee says BSU will not change its event policies as requested…
I discovered a column last month by Dean Haagenson. One bizarre idea he expressed was withholding citizenship until a person completes some kind of term of service. The message he presented that I really want to counter, however, was his attack on the school’s summer…
Israeli ground forces invaded the Gaza Strip because all other means to stop rocket fire from Palestinian militants had failed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday. Hours after Israeli soldiers were ordered into Gaza to destroy tunnels used to smuggle arms into the coastal enclave,…
Linda Lantzy/Idaho Scenic Images says of this photo: "I went to the lake a few nights ago when the sky started glowing pink. This is all caused by the wildfires burning in central WA. The novelty of it has since worn off as we are…
11:48 a.m. 59YO male in boat @ Kidd Island Bay lost consciousness after being stung by a bee in the ear. 11:46 a.m. A gun was stolen from a vehicle @ 700 block of River Avenue/CdA. 11:38 a.m. Caller reports dog theft to Coeur d'Alene…
Facebook post from Post Falls PD Graveyard Shift: "While driving by White Pines Park an officer noticed a suspicious vehicle stalling in the park. The driver told the officer that she was lost and was looking for a residence on West 20th. After explaining that…
Australia's Richie Porte gets medication from a doctor, left, as he follows teammate Mikel Nieve Iturralde of Spain, after he got distanced by the pack during the thirteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 197.5 kilometers (122.7 miles) with start in Saint-Etienne…
"Don't rush me -- I'm paid by the hour" (in Spokesman-Review building)
HMOffsuite (RE: Hydro races would help Coeur d'Alene): If the races had the support and cooperation of the City, they could be held with few problems and great benefit. Other venues like the Tri Cities and Seattle do well with them and have minimal problems.…
Citylink will soon have a permanent presence in Coeur d’Alene’s Riverstone development. Citylink began services with three buses in November 2005. The bus service has been operating out of a gravel lot in Riverstone since 2005. Over the past couple of years, Citylink has paid…
Animal Control officers with SCRAPS said they responded to 48 calls in four days of dogs left in hot cars. Officers said cars could quickly exceed the outside temperature by 50 degrees. They said they were responding to 12 calls a day on average of…
A blanket of gray smoke from the Carlton Complex fire near Twisp, Wash., settles Thursday afternoon on Spokane's Sunset Hill. Story and more photos here. And (Coeur d'Alene angle) here. (SR photo: Dan Pelle) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Former Sandpoint man guilty of murder/Bee Dalton…
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.
