Idaho adapts to wolf ruling, plans appeal

Stephen Pyne, a history professor at Arizona State University, has written extensively about the 1910 Fire. His books include “Fire in America” and “Year of the Fires,” which describe how the nation’s largest wildfire shaped the Forest Service’s perception of fires for decades to come.

Remnants of St. Joe cedars tell fire's tale

History doesn’t shed a kindly light on U.S. Sen. Weldon Heyburn, a Wallace mining attorney and strident foe of the newly formed Forest Service.

People teared up and laid hands on two rusted, twisted beams draped with an American flag Friday in Coeur d’Alene. The two 5,000-pound beams, taken from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, are traveling across the country for use in a 9/11 memorial park in Silverdale, just north of Bremerton. The park will honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and serve an educational role for future generations, organizers say.

A well-known North Idaho Democrat was in town this week for a family vacation, taking a break from running a commission tasked with finding ways to reduce the federal debt. Coeur d’Alene native Bruce Reed, 50, was selected in March to be executive director of President Barack Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which will recommend by year’s end ways to balance the federal budget, reduce the deficit and address the growth of entitlement spending.

The 1910 fires – and significant wildfires that followed into the 1930s – had a devastating hand in bestowing rugged portions of the Bitterroot Mountains with new life.

A registered sex offender who did not return to Kootenai County police after a furlough was captured in Seattle tonight before 9 p.m.

People teared up and laid hands on two rusted, twisted beams draped with an American flag Friday in Coeur d’ Alene. The two 5,000-pound beams, taken from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, are traveling across the country for use in a 9-11 memorial park in Silverdale, just north of Bremerton. The park will honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and serve an educational role for future generations, organizers say. “

Dry and warm weather will continue today as the Inland Northwest enjoys the best of August weather.

Back in 1910, respectable folk believed that the wild, debauched towns of Taft and Grand Forks deserved to burn in hell.

The Idaho Transportation Department failed Thursday to disqualify the judge in the U. S. Highway 12 giant truck shipments case, and he in turn delayed an injunction hearing from today to Monday. John Bradbury of Idaho’s 2nd District rescheduled the hearing for 11 a.m. Monday in Lewiston. He also granted a motion from ConocoPhillips, whose oil refinery equipment shipments are on hold because of the lawsuit, to intervene in the case and participate in Monday’s hearing.

A registered sex offender did not return tonight to Kootenai County officials after his court-approved furlough.

During today’s debate with Gov. Butch Otter, Democratic rival Keith Allred painted himself as a citizen activist fighting a career politician whose three decades in office align him with special interests, not Idaho residents.

A dramatically reduced level of field burning got started on the Rathdrum Prairie in North Idaho on Wednesday but was shut down when the smoke failed to rise above ground level, Idaho officials said today.

Authorities say a 40-year-old pilot whose crop duster crashed in a field in North Idaho walked away from the incident unharmed.

Drier air and slightly cooler temperatures are expected across the Inland Northwest today with lots of sun and highs in the middle 80s in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene.

When fire breached the hill behind her family’s cabin, Lily Cunningham turned back to watch the brilliant orange glow against the night sky.

Aug. 20, 1910, was a night of terror for isolated settlers, prospectors and fire crews scattered in the mountains of North Idaho, Western Montana and Eastern Washington. Without radio communication or Weather Service bulletins, the nation’s largest fire storm caught many by surprise.

A Hayden businessman has filed to run as a write-in candidate against Idaho Rep. Phil Hart, saying Hart’s tax woes prompted him to jump into the race against a fellow conservative. “We all pay our taxes, and my feeling is, what he did was wrong,” Howard Griffiths said of Hart. “There’s no justification for it. If we all took that attitude, and the way Washington’s printing money, this country wouldn’t last three minutes if none of us paid our taxes.”