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News >  Idaho

Kroc center workshop generates ideas

If the Salvation Army builds a community center in Coeur d'Alene it's sure to include swimming pools, if the input at a public workshop Wednesday has any weight. But it's too soon to tell what other big ticket items will make it into the final design for the proposed Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center the city hopes to land.
News >  Spokane

Cold snap saps heating help

The last major winter snowfall blanketed the Inland Northwest on Dec. 2, yet more than a week later the drifts remain intact – preserved by the same cold temperatures that are driving low-income and elderly residents to seek aid with their high heating costs. Public assistance organizations are working to keep the heat on and keep citizens warm even if the temperatures continue to hover below freezing and the cost to heat rises.
News >  Idaho

Death reopens wound

Another big game hunting season has drawn to a close, and among the harvest was one unintended death – that of a hunter mistaken for a deer. When Mary Seppala heard about the Nov. 27 death of Casey Lawson, a 30-year-old man from the Spokane Valley, she said it broke her heart.
News >  Idaho

Day care changes sought

If Cathy Kowalski's six-year quest is successful, the state of Idaho's child care landscape will look an awful lot like Coeur d'Alene's. "Coeur d'Alene's regulations have been a model for the state," said Kowalski, a children's advocate and former day care owner.
News >  Idaho

Celebration of human rights

A few days ago, workers stuck a 13,000-pound slab of granite in the ground in front of the old Battery building next to Coeur d'Alene City Park. On Saturday, that slab and a vision for a regional – and maybe one day international – human rights center will be unveiled on International Human Rights Day.
News >  Idaho

Sentenced to loneliness

Keeping the pharmaceutical cocktails straight and dealing with their side effects are bad enough for people with HIV and AIDS. But it's the loneliness that's hardest.
News >  Idaho

Homelessness real for teens, adults

The historic hobo camps along the Spokane River's railroad tracks are mostly gone. But on occasion, transients still manage to establish a makeshift camp in the trees near downtown Coeur d'Alene. Mostly they go unnoticed, except for when they clean up in public bathrooms at the nearby Harbor Center offices.
News >  Idaho

Safe and sound

The largest deployment in the history of the Idaho Army National Guard has come to an end just in time for Thanksgiving. Today, about 1,700 Idaho National Guard members are home with family after serving a year in Iraq for stability and counter-insurgency operations. And few could be happier than Dan Ryan of Post Falls, reunited with his wife and their five children after a difficult 18 months.
News >  Idaho

New hospital fills treatment gap

A new hospital opening soon in Post Falls will fill a medical gap in the Inland Northwest, health care professionals say. The $15 million Northern Idaho Advanced Care Hospital is under construction near Wal-Mart in Post Falls and is expected to be open in February.
News >  Idaho

Extreme neglect of twins’ brother

Keeley and Kyler Hebert, 8-year-old twins from Sandpoint, will come home from a week in the Bahamas today to see the results of the weeklong construction of their new home. But missing from the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" event today, and even from the crowds who will flock to the building site to try to catch a glimpse of the television show's stars, is Kailin Phillips, the twins' older brother.
News >  Idaho

Generosity key to home makeover

SANDPOINT – Just a few days before "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" came to town to build a home for a local family down on its luck, Tiffany Kurwicki had ordered a poster of Ty Pennington off the internet for her apartment. "The next thing I know, he's here," said the 18-year-old fan of the popular ABC reality TV show. Although Kurwicki was disappointed to hear that Pennington, the host of the show, wasn't at the job site Tuesday, she was still excited to be headed to the scene on a free shuttle bus.
News >  Idaho

Idaho woman, son drown scattering ashes on coast

A Sagle, Idaho, woman and one of her grown sons drowned when they were swept out to sea by a rogue wave while visiting the Oregon Coast this week to scatter the ashes of her husband. Pamela Flynn, 72, went to Agate Beach, near Port Orford, Ore., to honor one of the last wishes of David Flynn, who died in August at the age of 75.
News >  Idaho

Dredging plans hold up bypass

Plans to dredge Sand Creek to build a highway bypass through Sandpoint have led to delays in getting permits for the project. The Idaho Department of Transportation must resubmit its application for dredging and filling part of the creek to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and consult again with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the possible impact on bull trout and bald eagles.
News >  Idaho

Hayden food bank closes its cupboards

Filing cabinets have been moved into the Hayden City Hall storage room that used to contain basic food supplies for needy families. And the two women who for nearly three decades filled those food boxes have retired from running the all-volunteer Hayden food bank.
News >  Idaho

Honoring the heroes among us

Hometown heroes come in all genders, ages and species in the Inland Northwest. Today, the Inland Northwest Chapter of the American Red Cross will honor more than 20 people for life-saving acts – from the day in and day out dedication of Clark Fork, Idaho's, volunteer emergency medical technicians to a black Labrador retriever in Spokane who saved her owner from a house fire – with the annual Honoring Hometown Heroes luncheon at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane.
News >  Idaho

Too few Idaho kids go to college, report says

Too few high school students in Idaho go to college and too few college-bound students stay long enough to graduate, according to the latest report from Idaho Kids Count. The report, which was released Monday, underscored the need to better prepare students for college and cited efforts to make school graduation requirements more rigorous as one step toward an educational foundation necessary for optimum earning power in the workplace.
News >  Idaho

Post Falls deploys to welcome home Guard unit

Joannie Burnett's eyes turn red and watery when she recounts how Post Falls police and fire personnel waited on a freeway overpass two summers ago to bid farewell to the Idaho National Guard soldiers with the 116th Combat Engineering Battalion. Burnett's son, Chris, and his fellow soldiers couldn't miss the big American flags displayed especially for them as they headed to the airport for training in Texas and a year-long deployment in Iraq.
News >  Idaho

CityLink bus service gets rolling

At 76, Patricia Schneider doesn't drive anymore. So when she learned that a free fixed-route bus service was starting in Kootenai County, she marked the ribbon-cutting date on her calendar.
News >  Idaho

Region’s growth not without pains for some

Less than a month ago came the latest plaudits for Sandpoint from the national media. The town was touted as one of the top 10 "coolest mountain towns" by Men's Journal magazine, following similar sales jobs by USA Today, Outside magazine and Sunset magazine in the last couple of years.
News >  Idaho

Prescription for confusion

Fans of the new Medicare prescription drug program say it gives seniors choices and the chance to dramatically reduce their costs. Critics say it offers too many choices, and the resulting information overload makes seniors vulnerable to being sold a plan that's not in their best interest.
News >  Idaho

Lakeland students arrested in Rathdrum bomb scare prank

Four Lakeland High School students who left a suspicious package outside the HICO Country Store in Rathdrum on Tuesday didn't expect their high jinks to have such a big effect, said Rathdrum police Lt. Alex Carrington. Three of the students were taken in for questioning Thursday and confessed, Carrington said. They were arrested on charges of telephone harassment, public nuisance, disturbing the peace and conspiracy to commit crimes, Carrington said.
News >  Idaho

Candidates divided over street upgrade

SANDPOINT – Great Northern Road is a bumpy, washboard route that parallels railroad tracks along the west side of Sandpoint's small airport. It would be a convenient access to Schweitzer from the west side of town and could attract more manufacturing business to the airport if it just weren't so rough. Everyone pretty much agrees that the street needs to be upgraded, but the question of how has divided candidates in the Sandpoint City Council election.