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Updated 15 hours, 4 minutes ago

La Niña may become official very soon

Snowfall has finally started to increase across the lower elevations of the Inland Northwest. Although Coeur d’Ale…

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
OPINION: Risch, Crapo, Simpson — Stop federal usurpation of state water rights

Without prior warning to state water managers in California’s Tulare County, federal officials suddenly dumped a torrent of water from two lakes in the state’s…

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
OPINION: The intersection of religion and politics

In the 1960s, clerics led powerful movements to protest human rights violations and war. It was their religious devotion that motivated them to step into publi…

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
A dream is a wish your heart makes

Admittedly, I don’t personally know each of the nearly 2,000 readers who appear throughout the year in Main Street birthdays but I do know quite a few.

Updated 2 weeks ago
Did Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow?

Sunday was Groundhog Day and the world’s most famous groundhog of all time, Punxsutawney Phil, the Pennsylvania woodchuck, made his annual appearance. Each yea…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
HUCKLEBERRIES: Cops, quotes, cash and coals

Sandpoint gained national media attention — but not the kind it wanted — 30 years ago when news broke that Mark Fuhrman wanted to buy a house there. Fuhrman, o…

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
MY TURN: Medicaid expansion isn’t broken

The legislature is back in session and putting the Medicaid Expansion back on the chopping block. We know the voters approved it, many of our legislators don’t…

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
OPINION: The fall of the Lava Ridge project

Idaho’s congressional delegation has spent years battling with the Biden administration and the Bureau of Land Management over the Lava Ridge Wind Energy Proje…

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
OPINION: Whining

The Trump victory has resulted in a seismic shift in the direction of the country. Domestic, regional, international and economic policies have taken a new dir…

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
MY TURN: Putting minors in harm's way

Is the CLN board banning books from our public libraries? No. Books are being challenged all over our state, but a challenge is not a book ban. A challenge occurs when a parent or guardian exercises their right of …

Updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago
MY TURN: Hayden lacks good governance

How does a small city manage unanticipated growth while ensuring quality, sustainable services for all its citizens? The city of Hayden is facing this dilemma. Growth is already straining the infrastructure, servic…

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
OPINION: Private school subsidies will produce a few winners and many losers

Let’s be honest. The push to require Idaho taxpayers to subsidize private and religious schooling is not about “choice.” Experience in voucher states indicates…

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
OPINION: With malice toward none; with charity for all

In the spirit of working together to build something bigger than ourselves — a more perfect and bipartisan union — the Kootenai County Democrats are reaching a…

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Listen to your body, life is a blessing

In January 2008, I was emceeing the Post Falls Chamber's Annual Banquet at Templin's Resort. During the evening, I felt a bit clammy and muddleheaded, but fini…

Updated 3 weeks ago
There's more snow near the gulf states than North Idaho

January has produced some amazing and unbelievable weather patterns across the U.S. The lower elevations of North Idaho continue to struggle for snow as only 8…

Updated 3 weeks, 1 day ago
HUCKLEBERRIES: Opportunities to play

Arnold (Red) Halpern’s name is on the Rock of Fame at Memorial Field. But it probably should be on something else, too: a park, a softball field, a building.