Wyoming pass landslide brings mountain-sized headache to commuting tourist town workers

Each day, thousands make — or used to make — the half-hour-plus drive over Teton Pass from more affordable communities in eastern Idaho. Commuters are now looking at at least another hour of driving and possibly two through a different route into Wyoming.

Delbert Kerr, 84

Delbert “Del” L. Kerr of Hayden, Idaho, passed away peacefully on May 27, 2024. He was born on May 13, 1940, in Outlook, Washington, to Wilbert and Alice (VanKlinken).

Harris: Drought is over

Rain expected to give way to the 80s this week; Harris says

But don’t let all this rain, cool conditions and gray skies depress you. Warmth and sunshine is on the way.

Longtime Community Library Network board member resigns

Katie Blank served library district for over 30 years

Katie Blank, a longtime Community Library Network trustee, has resigned from the board. Blank served on the board for more than 30 years. She submitted her resignation Sunday. "Recently some very challenging health concerns have been brought to my attention," Blank said in the resignation letter.

ELECTION: Project 2025 would be catastrophic

Reading the Ethel Steinmetz Marmont guest opinion, “Project 2025 — The Presidential Transition Project,” sparked a recall of Albert Camus’s The Plague, his “allegory for fascism that creeps into a place and takes over before most people notice.”

Majority of Americans favor forgiving medical debt, AP-NORC poll finds

About 6 in 10 people with debt from medical bills favor medical debt forgiveness if the person has large amounts of debt compared to their income, compared to about half of people without medical debt.

REGAN: Not rational about NIC

I would like to voice extreme exception to Brent Regan’s opinion column “Rational thinking” in the May 31 edition of the Coeur d’Alene Press. I wonder if the swamp gas floating over Coeur d’Alene also includes the systematic partial destruction of North Idaho College?

Airline turbulence

With all of these wild weather patterns across the globe, it should be no surprise that we’re hearing more about airline turbulence. Most of us heard about the recent turbulence disaster with a Singapore Airlines flight May 21 from London to Singapore.

Post Falls subdivision lots approved unanimously after traffic concerns voiced

Traffic issues in the city of Post Falls now and in the future was the topic on residents’ and commissioners' minds leading up to a unanimously approved vote to turn North Place East Subdivision into 1,125 lots Tuesday night.

OPINION: Rational thinking

In a recent Coeur d'Alene Press editorial, the lingering ghost of the former editor rises like swamp gas over the Florida Everglades to regurgitate tired and biased tropes against the Republican Party.

OPINION: Let’s celebrate Juneteenth

Over and over again, we hear community leaders say, “North Idaho is not racist.”

Shoshone commissioners surprised by cost of office space

Concerns over open meeting laws and privacy highlighted

The Shoshone Board of County Commissioners elected to pause discussions about remodeling their office on Tuesday morning.

THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: M's had a chance to put the hated Astros away

SOMETIME, maybe in September, the Mariners could regret letting this Thursday snooze get away. Worse than halting their modest four-game win streak, perhaps more important than keeping them from rising higher than four games over .500, what the M’s critically FAILED to do was drive a stake through Houston’s dark heart. So, the undead Astros remain alive in the AL West race.

MY TURN: The good old days

I was shopping in a local store a couple of weeks ago when I overheard two women talking about how they wish we could go back to “the good old days” when things were so much better. I have heard that same mantra expressed many times over recent years. And I have always had the same internal reaction…good old days? For whom?

The Joy of Triathlons

Kip is a physical therapist who moved here in 2007 and didn’t do his first triathlon until 2010

Coeur d'Alene council moves to protect history

Approves 182-day moratorium on demolition, work on historic buildings

The moratorium has been a goal of the city’s Historic Preservation Commission, particularly since the recent demolition of the E. Lakeshore Drive 1925 home of the late Dr. E.R.W. "Ted" Fox and the historic Roosevelt Inn possibly facing the same fate with a developer offering to buy the property.

Does a dry spring also mean a dry summer?

Since the middle of May, temperatures have been relatively mild to warm in Coeur d’Alene and across the Inland Northwest.

Weekend TV/Radio highlights

Television, radio and streaming highlights for upcoming weekend.

Sons of Norway in town

The Harald Haarfager Lodge in Coeur d’Alene has hosted two other conventions, in 2010 and 2016 and teamed up with the Tordenskjold Lodge in Spokane to present this year’s convention, which are held every two years.

Special audit results coming soon for Shoshone County

The Shoshone Board of County Commissioners is still awaiting an audit they hope will show them where the county overspent in recent years.