Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (22 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link w/19 more items) includes rollover that just happened on e/b I-90, near Blue Creek Bridge, east of Coeur d'Alene, that's blocking lanes on both sides.
Mrs. O & I enjoyed another evening with a good crowd at Hayden City Park last evening, listening to country rockers Keith & the Hankers. The annual free concert series provided by local Music Man Chris Guggemos is in full swing again. I missed the...
U.S. women's soccer team midfielder Megan Rapinoe, center, holds up the World Cup trophy while midfielder Carli Lloyd, left, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left background, and head coach Jill Ellis, right, wave to the crowd as their float makes it way up…
Pope Francis apologized Thursday for the sins and "offenses" committed by the Catholic Church against indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas. History's first Latin American pope "humbly" begged forgiveness during an encounter in Bolivia with indigenous groups and other activists and in…
The Cutline Contest today features two members of Argentina's synchronized swimming team perofmring in the Pan Am Games in Toronto. Thursday Winner: GetRDun.
Crime Stoppers of the Inland Northwest is offering a cash reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of the suspect(s) believed to be responsible for a robbery that occurred at the Medicine Man Ironwood Pharmacy in Coeur d’Alene June 27. The cash reward is donated by RxPATROL®.
If you're tired of typical parades, you might want to wander over to Main Street/Riverstone to enjoy the no-holds-barred parade that launches Kinetic Fest. The rule for parade entries? There are no rules. Just make it fun.
Writes Rocky Barker/Idaho Statesman: "Idaho’s fire season has been turned on its head this year. North Idaho, the wettest part of an otherwise dry state, is where the greatest threat of big fires exists. Conditions look hauntingly like those 105 years ago, when a million acres burned in two days across North Idaho and Montana."
Luke Ridnour, the Coeur d'Alene-born NBA player, is on the move again after a week in which he was picked up and waived by four teams during a day in late June. Now he's been waived by the Toronto Raptors. Douglas Ammon of Rant Sports get us caught up again on the strange offseason for the former University of Oregon star.
Today's HucksOnline blogos roundup includes: Pluto ♥'s us/Fort Boise, Your weekly roundup/On Tap, Circuses & zoos/David Frazier (RP), Lake City planner inspires youngsters/Coeur d'Alene Today, No plans for drought-related fishing restrictions on CdA river/Outdoors, Keokee Publishing bookfest fun/Slight Detour + more ...
Politico mag reports: "Much of the national debate over racism in the aftermath of last month’s mass murder in Charleston, S.C., has focused on the South and its strange and sometimes jarring nostalgia for the Confederacy. And yet tucked away in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is a vicious group that most people have never heard of."
A dead bat, found along the shore of Priest Lake, has tested positive for rabies, according to the Panhandle Health District. A woman discovered the bat on July 7th while picking up debris and unintentionally handled the bat with her bare hands. Tests by the Idaho State Lab confirmed the bat was infected with rabies.
Do you remember that "Seinfeld" episode in which Elaine's boyfriend got that faraway look every time he heard "Desperado" (can't remember whether it was the Eagles or Linda Ronstadt version) play? She tried to get him to switch anthems. The episode came to mind last...
FBI Director James Comey said that the national background check system should have prevented the man who allegedly killed nine people at a historically black South Carolina church from buying a gun. Suspect Dylann Roof was arrested in February on a felony narcotics charge that…
Routinely, my friend, The Bard of Sherman Avenue, amazes me with the few words that say so much in his short rhymes. This one falls in that category. It reminds me of the work of the master poet Ogden Nash of days gone by. Get ready to smile.
62% of likely voters would support the Justice Department taking legal action against so-called “sanctuary cities” for illegal immigrants, according to a survey released Friday. Sanctuary cities are receiving new scrutiny following a fatal shooting of a woman in San Francisco last week; the suspect is an illegal immigrant. Question: What say you?
Seventy-four-year-old Navy veteran Madelynn Lee Taylor won her legal fight in federal court late Thursday, winning a final judgment and order requiring the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery to allow her remains to be co-mingled with those of her late wife, Jean Mixner, when she dies.…
Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born actor who rose to international stardom after emerging out of the distant desert in “Lawrence of Arabia,” died Friday, his agent said. He was 83. Steve Kenis, Sharif's longtime agent, told The Times that the actor died of a heart attack…
In a last-ditch effort to maintain negotiated summer water levels at Lake Coeur d'Alene, Avista is reducing Spokane River flows out of Post Falls Dam to the absolute minimum of 500 cubic feet per second. The median flow for this time of year is about…
Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (19 items & counting) includes 72YO man who suffered cardiac problems while hiking east side of Tubbs Hill.
The city of Post Falls unveiled its latest piece of public art yesterday afternoon at the Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center. "The Fish" by artist (and city employee) Harmony Conley-Oaks was then installed at the Spokane Street entrance to River City. You can see a photo package of the unveiling below.
Bayview is open to all as of this morning. Cape Horn just for residents. The traumatic experience may be over, but we still have the thunder storms coming in which could spell trouble. Ralph Jones tells me that there are bulldozers running a line the…
Today's AM Headlines includes: Avista reduces water discharge at dam/Press, Gov. Otter surveys Cape Horn fire damage/Press, Charges filed in deadly Athol area accident/Press, Navy vet wins fight over cemetery internment/EOBoise, US House narrowly OKs ed bill, with Idaho reps in favor/EOBoise + more.
I've begun to hear that Fort Ground residents are concerned that some trees in City Park are being targeted for removal as part of the 4 Corners revitalization project. Resident Karen Lawson voices her concerns today in an op-ed article in the Coeur d'Alene Press.
Executive Director Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation touts a law in Maine that allows residents to carry concealed weapons with a permit. Sez Hoffman: "Maine’s action is notable because Idaho’s Legislature has a gaggle of members professing adoration of the Second Amendment." Question: Do you support Maine's law?
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.
