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The most recent 25 Idaho stories
Updated: 10 years 42 weeks ago
Motorcycle fatalities put light on safety rules - Tue, 30 Apr 2013 PST
Three Idaho motorcyclists died in crashes over the past weekend – the first sunny, warm one of the spring – adding a grim underscore to the message officials are promoting at Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month events kicking off this week. Washington lost one motorcyclist over the same weekend, an Oregon resident who died in a crash in the Tri-Cities area.
Flurry of fatal crashes a sad kickoff to motorcycle safety month - Mon, 29 Apr 2013 PST
Three Idaho motorcyclists died in crashes over the weekend – the first sunny, warm one of the spring – adding a grim underscore to the message officials are promoting at a series of Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month events kicking off this week.
Wind advisory remains in effect through 5 p.m. - Mon, 29 Apr 2013 PST
Winds gusted to 41 mph at Spokane International Airport today as the Inland Northwest feels the effects of the latest spring cold front to cross the region.
Huckleberries: Mayor Bloem’s departure a win for hard-liners - Sun, 28 Apr 2013 PST
Now, we all know what Mayor Sandi Bloem meant at the annual Human Rights Banquet on Monday when she said she’d return to the feast in 2014, but maybe not in the same capacity. She had already decided not to seek re-election to a fourth term, for personal and professional reasons – not because she feared possible stiff competition against rival Councilman Dan Gookin. Bloem told Huckleberries on Wednesday that she wasn’t going to run, when your columnist followed up on her banquet remark.
Kyle Petty fundraising ride launches again from CdA - Sun, 28 Apr 2013 PST
Megan Stanley’s mom had a surprise for her Saturday morning. Come on, she said, let’s go meet a former NASCAR driver. The 13-year-old Coeur d’Alene girl looked awestruck when she found herself next to Kyle Petty, the 30-year Sprint Cup Series veteran. She got his autograph and had her photo taken with him near Independence Point.
Study: Sage grouse leave breeding sites when human disturbance tops 3% - Sun, 28 Apr 2013 PST
BOISE – Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey analyzing sage grouse breeding areas say the ground-dwelling birds need sagebrush-dominated landscapes with a minimum level of human activity to thrive. The ...
Eye on Boise: Two stream gauges escape budget ax - Sun, 28 Apr 2013 PST
BOISE – It now looks like three stream flow gauges will be shut off May 1 in Idaho, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Idaho Water Science Center, down from the five originally expected to be shut down due to sequestration budget cuts. “It’s still something of a fluid issue in terms of exactly how much the cut was going to be,” said Michael Lewis, the center’s director. He’d been anticipating a 7 to 8 percent cut in a federally funded program that supports 31 stream gauges statewide, but he just learned late Thursday that “we’re probably looking at a 5.2 percent cut.”
Wind to pick up tonight through Saturday - Thu, 25 Apr 2013 PST
This morning's calm sunny weather is going to give way to breezy, dry conditions through Saturday, forecasters said.
Sexual orientation would be protected under CdA law - Thu, 25 Apr 2013 PST
Coeur d’Alene soon may join a growing number of Idaho cities to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation – a reaction to the Legislature’s steadfast refusal to add such protections to state law. City Councilman Mike Kennedy is drafting an ordinance modeled after one adopted in Boise last year. It would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations.
Idaho records - Thu, 25 Apr 2013 PST
For 04-25-2013
N. Idaho baby sitter won’t face death penalty - Wed, 24 Apr 2013 PST
LEWISTON, Idaho — Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a North Idaho woman charged with killing a 2-year-old girl she was babysitting.
Idaho health exchange board threatened with lawsuit - Tue, 23 Apr 2013 PST
BOISE – Idaho’s new health insurance exchange board gathered for its first meeting Monday, and each of its 19 members had already received a somewhat surprising welcome: an anonymous call threatening a lawsuit. “I got a call from a guy who did not want to identify what firm he worked for,” said Stephen Weeg, the board’s interim chairman. “He just wanted to give us all a notice that within three months’ time we would all be sued for being on this board.”
Idaho exchange board starts work, unfazed by lawsuit threat - Mon, 22 Apr 2013 PST
Idaho’s new state-based health insurance exchange board gathered for its first meeting today, and each of its 19 members had already had a somewhat surprising welcome – an anonymous call threatening a lawsuit.
Cold front brings showers; warmup in sight - Sun, 21 Apr 2013 PST
A cold front passing over the Inland Northwest today has brought several rounds of showers with some locations seeing moderate to heavy rain.
Race for Cure turns Spokane pink for a day - Sun, 21 Apr 2013 PST
The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Spokane filled the downtown area with a crowd dressed in pink in the seventh running of the five kilometer event.
Huckleberries: You are free to say what they want you to say - Sun, 21 Apr 2013 PST
No one can blame the Kootenai County commissioners for adopting a social media policy for county employees. The Spokesman-Review has one, too. But some of the 16 guidelines approved by Dan, Jai and Todd seem, well, paranoid and/or Big Brotherish. Consider Guideline No. 2 (which Huckleberries calls the anti-whistle-blower rule): “Employees are free to express themselves as private citizens on social media sites to the degree that their speech does not impair working relationships of the County and its elected officials for which loyalty and confidentiality are important, impede the performance of duties, impair discipline and harmony among co-workers, or negatively affect the public perception of the County.”
Eye on Boise: Slow growth seen in timber market - Sun, 21 Apr 2013 PST
BOISE – Idaho’s state Land Board has approved a timber sale plan for 2014 that calls for harvesting 249 million board feet from state endowment lands, the highest logging level in more than a decade. The timber cut has been fixed at 247 million board feet for the last several years, but next year’s includes a one-time adjustment that bumps it up by 2 million. In 2002, the state’s timber sale plan volume was less than 175 million board feet.
Otter signs as law limits on teachers - Sat, 20 Apr 2013 PST
BOISE – Five months after Idaho voters resoundingly rejected laws limiting schoolteacher contract rights, Idaho lawmakers resurrected many of them. Gov. Butch Otter signed five controversial bills into law to revive parts of Proposition 1, including limiting negotiated teacher contract terms to just one year and allowing school districts to cut teacher pay without declaring financial emergencies. Four of the five bills have emergency clauses making them effective immediately. One, the bill limiting contract terms to one year, is retroactive to Nov. 21, 2012 – the day voters’ Nov. 7 decision took effect.
Idaho files suit against former CdA coin store - Thu, 18 Apr 2013 PST
The Idaho Attorney General’s office has filed a lawsuit alleging that a former Coeur d’Alene coin store, its owner and its operator broke state consumer protection laws by failing to deliver gold and silver to customers who paid thousands of dollars in advance. The suit seeks $664,326 in restitution for 18 consumers who complained they were ripped off by CoiNuts Inc., its owner, Kevin E. Mitchell, of Hayden, and his stepdaughter and the store’s operator, Sarah M. Mitchell, of Hayden. The suit, filed Tuesday in Kootenai County District Court, also seeks $90,000 in civil penalties.
Idaho records - Thu, 18 Apr 2013 PST
For 04-18-2013
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