The Coeur d'Alene Press has provided online readers and this section of cyberspace quite a service by providing half-hour video interviews with the candidates. Yesterday, the Coeur d'Alene Press Online featured the Idaho Senate District 4 race between Republican Mary Souza and Constitutionalist Ray Writz.…
The Rockettes rehearse their "New York at Christmas" number from the 2014 Radio City Christmas Spectacular, in the rehearsal space of St. Paul the Apostle Church, in New York, today. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Top Comment Today (RE: Cancer workers fired to be re-hired): 100% correct! As a 29-year employee at Sacred Heart, these "re-allocations" are becoming more and more the SOP. Lay people off, then re-hire as "new" employees. As a "new" employee at a "new entity" at…
Here’s why Gov. Butch Otter and Attorney General Lawrence Wasden are taking the position that the 9th Circuit’s stay on same-sex marriages starting in Idaho – issued at their request while they appealed to the 9th Circuit – is still in effect: On Page 91…
Time 2 Vote ... Facts: Mary Westermayer of St. Louis, Mo., reacts after the homemade hat with redbirds that she wore to a pre-game rally in St. Louis won her two tickets to Game 3 of the NLDS Playoff against Los Angeles. You write the…
5:29 p.m. Firefighter at Worley fire reports helicopter flying in for "some bucket work." 5:16 p.m. CPD officer requests Street Dept to move body of large, dead animal from 15th/Hazel because it is attracting people. But is told that street workers need overtime authorized. 5:04…
In its second video debate, the Coeur d'Alene Press interviews Democrat Anne Nesse and Republican incumbent Kathy Sims, who are vying for Sims' House District 4 seat. Reporter Keith Cousins served as moderator in a discussion that touched on job development and wages, and explored…
A confrontation inside a Harrison, Idaho, bar Saturday night spilled into the street and ended with one man crashing through a post office window, slicing open his neck. Charles N. Skinner, 31, of Spokane Valley left a trail of blood down a sidewalk and into…
Gay marriage defendants, from right, Amber Beierle, Rachael Beierle, Lori Watsen, Sharene Watsen, Traci Ehlers, and Sue Latta address media outside of the James A McClure Federal Building and United States Courthouse Tuesday in Boise. A federal appeals court declared gay marriage legal in Idaho…
The City of Coeur d'Alene is greening up its newly renovated McEuen Park using tons of a home-brewed compost. The stuff is made from sludge at the city's wastewater treatment plant. They call it Coeur d'Green. The city carefully describes it as made from "de-watered…
Don Sausser snapped this photo of the moon setting around 5:30 this morning, in preparation for tonight's eclipse around midnight. A total lunar eclipse in the wee hours of Wednesday morning should give Inland Northwest sky watchers a chance at seeing the moon bathed in…
At a special meeting, scheduled for the Coeur d'Alene Library Community Room at 6 p.m. Wednesday, the Lake City Development Corp. will discuss a proposed mix-use work-force housing initiative for Midtown Coeur d'Alene. Midtown stakeholders are invited, as well as the general public.
In a Huffington Post article, "The rumors of opera's death have been greatly exaggerated," writer Jennifer Rivera spotlights Opera Coeur d'Alene among five companies that have been started since 2000. Quoth: "Their main objective is to provide high quality opera to the inland northwest, to…
Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon, center, could be on the hot seat if/when Idaho county clerks are directed to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners. Brannon is shown with Gary Ingram, left, and former county coroner Jim West listening to governor's debate at Coeur d'Alene…
Amber Beierle, left, and her partner Rachael Robertson, from Idaho, listen to arguments on gay marriage bans at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Monday, Sept. 8. (AP file photo) A federal appeals court has struck down gay marriage bans in…
TWolf22 (RE: Idaho AP performance improves): Like so many things,, the income gap for example, the same is happening in education. The middle is slowly disappearing. The students who, along with their parents, value education, are probably those who perform well on the tests. The…
Idaho's Democrat candidate for secretary of state Holli Woodings, left, and Republican candidate Lawerence Denney, right, meet with debate moderator Jim Weatherby on Monday in Boise. Woodings and Denney faced off for the first time in Monday's debate. The two will debate again at 7…
As of October 9th, yours truly will be starting to try to simplify his life and his living costs by getting rid of his expensive Blackberry telephone and replacing it with a simple basic telephone -- Chris Carlson. Question: I intentionally steer clear from smartphones…
The Seattle City Council is replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day in the city. The resolution that passed unanimously Monday celebrates the contributions and culture of Native Americans and the indigenous community in Seattle on the second Monday in October, the same day as…
Elite swimmers toil most of the year through grueling practices, often more than once a day, to compete at the highest level. The dream at the end of all that chlorine has five colored rings. To reach the collegiate ranks requires years of detailed workouts…
As a lifetime patron of theater, John Allred believes in supporting promising new productions. But this could hardly be called an actual production. This was a staged reading of a totally unknown provincial play in a grange hall in the boonies of North Idaho. Even…
"We walked along a dike leading from Westside Road at the second entrance to the Ball Creek Ranch Nature Conservancy property," writes Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "After a short distance, a lovely babbling brook to the left is dwarfed by the magnificent Kootenai River, which meanders…
Okay, what was that that just flew over the Lake City. I saw it, and it was loud, but I'm not sure. I know most jets and what they look like, that one seemed like an SR-71. Is that possible? It sure was cool though.…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday it is cutting health insurance for more of its part-time workers, as the nation’s largest private employer takes steps to rein in rising health-care costs. The move will affect about 30,000 Wal-Mart employees who work fewer than 30 hours a…
Idaho high school students showed improvement on Advanced Placement tests, but lag well behind national benchmarks on the SAT college placement exam. Those are two key findings from national results issued Tuesday. The College Board, a New York-based nonprofit, released scores for the three sets…
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.
