Cutting the cord

NEW YORK - Next year HBO is cutting the cord and selling its popular streaming video service HBO Go as a stand-alone product, as more Americans choose to watch the Web, not the TV. Viewers longing to see "Game of Thrones," "True Detective" and "Veep" will no longer have to pay big bucks for cable and satellite contracts. So, is this the end of pay-TV as we know it?

Assessing tough situation, Kovacs looks for help

County on look out for appraisers and chief deputy assessor

Gasoline prices should fall after Labor Day

Price of a gallon still more than it was a year ago

Americans can expect gasoline prices to drop as school buses start rolling through neighborhoods across the country.

Beau Monde plans move to Ironwood Square

Store buys, sells and trades clothing

COEUR d'ALENE - The owners of Beau Monde Exchange, the popular buy-sell-trade clothing and accessory store, plan to move it to Ironwood Square.

Fulcher: Prepare for turbulence

Congressman says war impact will be felt here

Argues that US should "choke off" Putin by ramping up energy production and export to friendly nations.

No dirt left behind

Loren Walz has been selling Kirby vacuums for 40 years

DALTON GARDENS - Ask Loren Walz why he has been selling Kirby vacuums for four decades.

Just stay calm as the market rises and falls

Dugdale says good things are happening despite stock market slump

Dugdale says good things continue to happen despite stock market slump

OPINION: A tale of two conventions

The Idaho Democrats and the Idaho Republicans recently held their party’s conventions one week apart. The results of each speak volumes about the choices voters have this November.

Some tips to snag seats together on holiday flights

Airlines charging more for people who request adjacent seats

NEW YORK - Flying this Thanksgiving and worried that you won't be able to sit with family?

Op-Ed: Resolving to be civil

It also happens to be the best way to win an argument.

Real estate recovery continues locally

As you no doubt have heard, parts of the country are experiencing growth in the housing market. The same holds true here although, like the nation, our recovering areas are in pockets within our local geography.

Local stats buck national trend

On the heels of a Case Schiller report of a decline in real estate sales across the country, our staff at the Coeur d'Alene Multiple Listing Service was quick to prepare an overview of our local market. We are pleased to report that our statistics present a positive picture of our local market. Most of the cities and many rural areas within the MLS jurisdiction report gains, not losses in number of sales and appreciation.

Fresh options

Christmas tree shopping: Cost vs. convenience

VIOLENCE: One side at fault

President Trump on Tuesday was wrong in the news conference when he squarely laid blame on both sides in the Charlottesville melee. Although it was an improvement from his caving to the politically correct communists in this country, in his statement condemning white supremacists the previous day, the blame should rest squarely on the counter protesters, antifa. The so-called white supremacists group had a legitimate reason to be there and held a permit to peacefully protest the taking down of an American memorial. The resistance, counter-protesters, antifa, or whatever one may call them (no one knows for sure who they were) came armed with clubs, suited with shields and helmets, and ready to incite violence. They got what they wanted, violence broke out. Could there have been any other result? Self-defense is an innate characteristic. The supremacist group, I believe, was exercising their free speech rights and had to exercise self-defense in what started out to be a peaceful protest on their part.

Magic Bus

Drawing for classic '76 VW donated by Post Falls Volkswagen raises $40,000 for KHS

VW Bus tickets sales benefit KHS

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — GEORGE BALLING: Getting creative

The state by state restrictions from the coronavirus have been disruptive to most any business. The most significant dislocation though, is in the travel and tourism industry, and wine country-based businesses and winery tasting rooms are certainly taking some of the biggest hits. As restrictions start to lift and businesses reopen, wineries are still experiencing some of the most significant regulatory increases.

West Yellowstone ponders $1.4M forest land purchase

A hull of a business

Duo seeks to make fastest boats in the world, help NIC students in process

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — M & A

In just the last few months mergers and acquisition activity in the wine industry, specifically in the very high end of the wine industry in Napa Valley, has captured two of the most storied wineries in Northern California.

Looking for hand sanitizer? Good luck finding it

NEW YORK (AP) — The hand sanitizers on Amazon were overpriced. A Walmart this weekend was completely sold out. Only on his third try was Ken Smith able to find the clear gel — at a Walgreens, where three bottles of Purell were left. He bought two.