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US charges 3 men with plotting terror attacks, including planned assault on UK airbase
Post Falls chase ends in fatal shooting
Police apparently shot and killed a person suspected of intentionally driving a pickup truck into patrol vehicles Thursday in Post Falls.
Hammond calms the waters
Jim Hammond has been a teacher, a principal, a planning and zoning commissioner, a senator, a mayor and a city administrator. So, you would figure he has d…
Little's Taiwan visit spurs response from China
Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s recent trade mission to Taiwan, one of the state’s leading international partners, spurred a response from China amid rising tensions …
Planes, trains and buses
Gary Edwards hopes to be home tonight. But he’s not counting on it. “It’s taking longer than I thought,” he said from Orlando, Fla., laughing Thursday durin…
Worley student earns top writing honors
A Kootenai County student has earned writing honors for his entry in the annual Forest Products Week Essay Contest.
Kootenai Electric awards Operation Round Up grants
Kootenai Electric Cooperative members who voluntarily “round up” their monthly electric bills to the nearest dollar support Operation Round Up® and help their …
MOVING HISTORY FORWARD: 1930s CCC Camps in the St. Joe Forest
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected U.S. President in 1932, he was faced with solving the problems of a country rich in resources but with a declining e…
COMMENTARY: Flipping phones
In the span of a few years, I have become illiterate. I can no longer communicate with the outside world. This outside world attempts to communicate with me, b…
Today's Ghastly Groaner
A phone and a firework were arrested on New Year's Eve.
Applications for US unemployment aid rose slightly last week
So far, the level of jobless claims remains quite low, evidence that Americans are enjoying a high degree of job security
Southwest says it expects normal operations to resume Friday
About the only good news for Southwest passengers was that 98% of flights that took off Thursday managed to land within 15 minutes of schedule
Pelé, Brazil’s mighty king of ‘beautiful game,’ has died
Pelé’s fame was such that in 1967 factions of a civil war in Nigeria agreed to a brief cease-fire so he could play an exhibition match in the country
Westbound I-90 open after fatal shooting
Officer involved shooting reported A series of allegedly intentional hit and run crashes Thursday morning culminated in a fatal “officer-involved shooting,”…
Prime time for potholes
As snow and ice recede from roadways during warmer temperatures this winter, potholes and cracks in the pavement will make themselves known.
Much more than socks
It was a rough year in 2019. Just before Christmas, Post Falls mom Shantelle Avery found herself hospitalized with severe depression.