Huckleberries Online has the latest numbers for tonight's levy election in Coeur d'Alene and levy & bond elections in Post Falls. All three are passing with more than 70 percent of the vote, with 87% of the precincts counted. See exact numbers below ...
Gonzaga held off one charge after another from BYU to win 91-75 and capture another WCC tournament champions. Read game story boxscore below. And: see S-R photojournalist Colin Mulvany's gallery of photos below.
I'm headed to vote in the Coeur d'Alene School District levy election before going home. It sounds as though the voter turnout isn't very good today, either in Coeur d'Alene or Post Falls. That means my vote will count more. But it also means that those who don't support public schools in this county get a bigger say than they should ...
FIU spring breakers Miguel Irias, 22, holds a selfie stick as he videos his friends in the surf, Valerie Rincon, 22, left and Jennifer Perez, 22, at right, on South Beach today in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Al Diaz)
Editorial in Moscow-Pullman Daily News opines that Sens. Vick, Nuxoll & Hartog embarrassed Idaho by boycotting Hindu prayer before Idaho Senate began last Tuesday ...
Today's Cutline Contest returns to the Crufts dog show in England, where a Great Dane is more than a handful for its trainer. Monday winner -- Eddie Torreal.
PM Scanner Traffic for Tuesday (24 items + AM Scanner Traffic link to 24 more items) includes firefighters extinguishing brush and fire blaze along Mountain View Road, east of Rathdrum ...
Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the 61-year-old woman who died while skiing at Lookout Pass on Sunday. Mary Jane Bair, of Silverton, Idaho, apparently hit a tree, a news release from the sheriff’s office said. The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office, along…
Hillary Clinton isn't changing a thing. What emerged most clearly from her press conference on Tuesday when she addressed the controversy over her use of e-mail as secretary of state is that the Hillary Clinton that runs in 2016 won't be that different from the…
Lake Cty High teacher Derek Kohles lectured the House Education Committee today re: strings attached to pay provisions in the teacher career ladder proposal. He predicts under-paid Coeur d'Alene teachers will take better-paying jobs in Spokane County ...
In today's blog roundup, Marianne Love leads the way with her photos of a day spent in the National Wildlife Refuge near Bonners Ferry+Faithful Geek discusses Disney magic+Outdoors notes that grizzlies are near official recovery in Montana+ Grip on Sports talk about spring hope ...
You know you're having a bad day when you rear-end your fiancee at an intersection -- and then she gets a ticked for failure to wear a seatbelt and provide proof of insurance. It's all in a day's work for the swing shift of the Post Falls PD ...
93% of Hucks Nation said it didn't trust Gov. Butch Otter to unilaterally deal with the issue of Idaho accepting more nuclear waste from U.S. Dept of Energy. Today's Poll: Do you have a permit to carry a concealed weapon?
Gonzaga and BYU will play tonight for the second time in 10 days, with the title of the West Coast Conference Tournament on the line. The Zags & BYU will tip off at 6 p.m. in Las Vegas, Nev. The game will be broadcast on ESPN
Reps. Jason Monks, R-Meridian, and Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell, pitched their transportation funding bill to the House Transportation Committee this afternoon. It calls for a temporary five-cent gas and diesel tax increase; a 3 cent per gallon transfer fee; an annual $65 “fair share surcharge” on…
If FlorineD's anecdotal evidence provides a clue, voter turnout for the Coeur d'Alene School District is light today. She was No. 24 to vote at her precinct. This means a small amount of dedicated opponents of public education can stop a two-year levy at $15 per year ...
The New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks have agreed on a trade sending Pro Bowl tight end Jimmy Graham to Seattle for multiple draft picks and center Max Unger, according to league sources. The Seahawks have offered a range of picks that would include at…
The University of Oklahoma announced Tuesday the expulsion of two students identified as playing 'leadership' roles in the racist chant that was caught on video that led to a fraternity's banishment from campus ...
This mornings Scanner Traffic (24 items) includes 2 controlled burns that have county residents concerned re: spread to nearby homes ...
What if you showed your driver’s license to verify your credit card, buy a drink or get on a plane -- and it wasn't accepted? That’s starting to happen to people from Idaho because of a federal law. The REAL ID Act of 2005 is an anti-terrorism law that calls for certain security measures on state-issued ID cards ...
Kootenai County Clerk Jim Brannon gets another shot at producing election results in a timely manner tonight. As an appointed official last year, the election results came in very, very late -- twice. Now, he's duly elected. Would you take the over or under if I predicted the results would be in by 10:30?
Ben Barstow holds a sprout of winter wheat at his farm near Palouse, Wash., on Feb. 26. Farmers of this major crop in Eastern Washington have seen a mild winter and early growing season. Story here. (SR photo: Tyler Tjomsland)
Stickman comments on the lack of dog feces on Tubbs Hill, despite the presence of so many dogs running loose on the popular hill. His wife, Walkabout, picks up bags and bags of dog feces daily to keep Tubbs Hill pristine. I wonder what the hill would be like without her yeoman efforts?
Like a puzzle missing several pieces, Jeannie Barber, 64, always knew her family was incomplete. Last month she discovered many of those missing pieces right here in the Inland Northwest. In 1950, Barber was given up for adoption in Spokane by her 18-year-old unwed mother....
Betsy Russell is live blogging a hearing this morning on teacher career ladder legislation, which has attracted a large crowd in Boise. Huckleberries provides a roundup of her posts on the topic below ...
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.
