I forgot to mention yesterday that Mrs. O & I enjoyed the tunes of superb vocalist Ruth Pratt and the Coeur d'Alene Big Band under the trees at Hayden City Park last week. Nice venue. Nice way to relax after a long day of entertaining...
Casey Kelley, of Gilbert, rests his head on his son's head as they share a grip on a Confederate flag outside the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., earlier today. With roots deep in the Confederacy, Liam Kelley, 3, is the seventh generation of the…
Panhandle Health District (PHD) and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) have issued a Wildfire Smoke Advisory for Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Shoshone, and Benewah Counties. Wildfire smoke from several fires currently burning in Idaho, Washington, and Canada are impacting air quality.
Controversy continues to surround presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments painting Mexican immigrants as criminals, but the women taking part in the upcoming Miss USA pageant Trump co-owns say the show must go on. Several Hispanic candidates and one immigrant from Albania taking part in the contest discussed the pageant and Trump's comments.
Today's Cutline Contest features the photo of a reveler at the Pamplona, Spain, who got up close and personal with a cow, one day before the annual running of the bulls begins. Monday Winner: YPmule.
With three active wildfires burning in Eastern Washington and North Idaho, fire officials braced for high winds and potential thunderstorms into this evening. “The meteorologist is cautioning us about a cold front with 30 mph gusts from time to time,” said Washington Incident Management public...
Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (23 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link w/15 more items) includes another possible arson attempt in grass and brush at 15th St/Lookout Drive area on northeast edge of Dalton Gardens.
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office would like to advise all individuals from the evacuated fire area that may have animals that need your attention to please contact our Central Dispatch at 208-446-1300. A representative of the Sheriff’s Office will return your call to make arrangements…
Today's North Idaho blogosphere roundup includes: On the road/Slight Detour, It's a gobsmacker/Fort Boise, Going with the grain again/On Tap, Trustee recall try afoot in Caldwell/IDEDNews, Glacier offers cool fishing alternative/Outdoors, Up-and-down M's still have time/A Grip on Sports, Good times of summer with side effects/Simple Mind + more ...
Displaced from his Bayview home by the Cape Horn fire, blogger Herb Huseland/Bay Views is miffed by the conflicting advice that he's received from fire command and police officials. First, he's told he can go home. And then he's turned back. Then, he thinks he's home free only to be frustrated again. He blogged about his experience moments ago.
Bill & Marianne Love took their cameras to Bayview Monday to provide a series of photos for Marianne's Slight Detour blog. You can see that photo set below, as well as Marianne's report re: what was happening in town while the Cape Horn fire burned above it.
"Getting ready for my day and listening to my sons discuss what would have happened if Hitler had been admitted to art school. Need. More. Coffee" -- Cindy Hval, via Facebook.
Preservation Idaho, the state’s leading historic preservation group, has sent a letter to University of Idaho officials asking them not to cover two historic murals depicting the lynching of a Native American man in the former Ada County Courthouse when it reopens as the new…
KHQ reports that the Cape Horn Fire at Bayview had minimal growth over night and is still sitting at 2,000 acres burned. At this point, there is zero containment. There will be a community meeting in Bayview Tuesday night to discuss the progress made in fighting the Cape Horn Fire. The meeting will be at the Bayview Community Center.
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department is hunting for at least one low-life who tossed two puppies in a white pillowcase from the passenger side of a black pickup in the Worley area Saturday night. More below.
United States teammates, from left to right, Morgan Brian (14), Tobin Heath (17), Alex Morgan (13), Lauren Holiday (12), Carli Lloyd (10) and Ali Krieger (11) celebrate after Lloyd's second goal against Japan during the first half of the FIFA Women's World Cup soccer championship…
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (15 items & counting) includes Cape Horn resident who wants to return to his home to feed 3 pet birds that have been without food for 3 days.
Bill Cosby testified 10 years ago that he had obtained Quaaludes in the 1970s to give to young women with whom he wanted to have sex, according to a court document unsealed Monday. It was an acknowledgment, the first to become public and in Mr. Cosby’s own words, that he viewed powerful, sedating drugs as a part of his sexual encounters with women.
In Monday's poll, 57% of Hucks Nation has air conditioning and therefore is coping relatively easily with this hot summer of our discontent. Today's Poll: How do you view the Confederate flag?
SR photog Kathy Plonka was at the scene of the Cape Horn fire at 4 this AM to take more photos for the paper and Huckleberries Online. Here's a photo set of them.
As if firefighters don’t have enough trouble trying to stop wildfires across the region, the National Weather Service warns of lightning storms and wind gusts this afternoon. A weak cold front is expected to move south out of Canada and cross into the mountainous tier of counties from the Cascades to Western Montana.
To launch AM Headlines today, Rep. Luke Malek provides Huckleberries Online with this panorama view of the Cape Horn Fire and smoke at sunset Monday night. Meanwhile, SR bud Kathy Plonka is preparing a package of her photos from today. Kathy was on the scene at 4 AM to shoot photos. Also, per usual, you can find today's headlines below.
I've already picked 4 or 5 zucchinis in this hot summer of 2015. Better yet, I have one taker for excess zucchinis, which means that I won't have to put them in bags, ring neighbor's door bells and run. The Bard of Sherman Avenue, of course, has a rhyme for this wonderful vegetable.
A law enforcement source has confirmed to CBS News that Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle is a suspect in a federal child pornography investigation. FBI agents and Indiana State Police are at Fogle's in Zionsville, Ind., and have removed electronics from the property. FBI special...
In the Lewiston Tribune, columnist Bill Hall writes of striking a blow for all steerage class passengers while boarding a plane recently. In walking through the first class cabin -- and being eyed by the wealthy passengers in the front seats -- Hall said he did something that struck a blow for all the masses who huddle in the seats in the rear.
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.
