'Appreciation for Life'

Online Art Talk with Meidi Karampour at 6 p.m. Saturday

The Art Spirit Gallery will host its next session of Art Talks, “An Appreciation For Life” featuring a talk by Persian painter Meidi Karampour, online via Zoom from 6-7 p.m. Saturday.

OPINION: The art of conversation

In the furor of our divisive Idaho politics right now, we have lost the important ability to talk with each other as people. We have lost the art of conversation. TV and internet news is full of reports and images of angry people yelling nasty names at those who disagree with them. Is anything constructive accomplished by the screaming? No. And even those who organize the fight know this.

Suspect in the slayings of 4 Idaho college students wants news cameras out of the courtroom

Second District Judge John Judge is expected to hear arguments over camera access today

Walleye spreading into Idaho

Idaho Fish and Game has received more verified reports and pictures from people catching walleye in the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake River and Salmon River in 2023 than in all previous years. It is alarming to receive so many reports of walleye being caught upstream of Lower Granite Dam, and unfortunately there are indicators that more walleye are coming which is not good for salmon and steelhead.

Happy entrepreneurship month!

Each year since 2011, the month of November is celebrated as National Entrepreneurship Month in the United States, a time to recognize the business owners who serve their communities and bolster the American economy by creating employment for millions of people. During the second full week of November, Nov. 13 to 19 this year, we also recognize the American spirit of entrepreneurship abroad by celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week.

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER: Something to be skeptical of

I write to give credit to the Coeur d’Alene Press for recognizing that the Traffic Center survey is flawed and won’t provide a true picture of how people in the county feel about the plan.

The IRS has 940,000 unclaimed tax refunds from 2020 that are about to expire. Is one of them yours?

Taxpayers typically have three years to file and claim tax refunds, otherwise the money becomes the property of the U.S. Treasury.

Lucas 'Luke' James Fitzpatrick, 36

Lucas James Fitzpatrick, known to all as Luke, passed away on October 19, 2023. He was born in Lewiston, Idaho, on August 21, 1987.

Rethink that drink

Two local schools among 22 to receive new water filling stations from Delta Dental

Delta Dental of Idaho, the leading dental benefits carrier in the state, provided 22 Idaho schools with a new Elkay water fountain/bottle filling station through its "Rethink Your Drink" grant program. The two North Idaho schools to receive the new water stations are Hayden Meadows Elementary School, Hayden and Skyway Elementary School, Coeur d’Alene.

Courses to prepare for hunting season

The Farragut Shooting Range Center will host a series of Idaho Department of Fish and Game approved classes to prepare hunters, marksmen and children for the upcoming hunting season.

Marty and Max: Real Estate Recipes

Today we will discuss two ways to buy an actively marketed home at a bargain, where you actually want to live.

Oregon's Cannon Beach reopens after cougar sighting on iconic coastal rock led to closure

State biologists believe the cougar ventured to Haystack Rock at low tide Saturday night to hunt birds, a behavior they have not previously witnessed at that site

Community healing in the Silver Valley

Community healing event helps check in with grieving Silver Valley residents

'That's what we do'

Athletic Round Table donates $25,000 to museum

The Athletic Round Table was established as a club in 1939 by a group of Coeur d’Alene leaders to support civic causes in North Idaho.

Preserving Idaho's trapping legacy: Balancing wildlife management and conservation

Regulated trapping in Idaho is a key piece in maintaining predator and prey balances in Idaho

Man gets prison for sexual relationship with minor

A man received a prison sentence for a sexual relationship with a minor.

Marty and Max: Rawhide real estate marketing

When preparing your home do it the rawhide way. Remember the old country song from many Western movies including City Slickers? It goes something like… “Rollin, Rollin Rollin, Keep those dogies rollin', Head 'em up, Move ‘em out.”

A Colorado man died after a Gila monster bite. Opinions and laws on keeping the lizard as a pet vary

Ward's girlfriend told animal control they bought Winston at a reptile exhibition in Denver in October and another Gila monster named Potato from a breeder in Arizona in November

Sheriff wants you

KCSO to host career forum Saturday

This will be an opportunity to meet with officials from the agency, learn how to prepare for an oral board and even test your physical ability

Fentanyl, stolen guns seized during Pinehurst raid

Earlier this week the Pinehurst Police Department (PPD) along with several other agencies successfully conducted two raids that led to the seizure of more than 400 doses of fentanyl.