Both camps support Hayes' warning

COEUR d'ALENE - The Kootenai County Clerk's Office is warning everyone involved in the Coeur d'Alene City Council recall and anti-recall efforts to play it straight.

Post Falls adds North Place to its residential repertoire

North Place, the new Greenstone Homes development located near the Prairie Falls Golf Club in Post Falls, is the “middle ground” neighborhood in more ways than one.

Bloomberg's hope for Super Tuesday splash lands in Pacific

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pacific islands with lush vegetation and stunning coastlines some 7,200 miles (11,600 kilometers) from where he once served as New York City's mayor.

Texas school shooter left trail of ominous warning signs

Failing grades soon were accompanied by frequent absences — more than 100 a year beginning in 2018

Idaho trail enthusiasts encouraged to buy specialty license plates

Proceeds go toward maintaining, building mountain bike paths

BOISE - Backers of the nation's first mountain bike specialty plate are encouraging trail enthusiasts of all kinds to buy the mountain bike plate and raise funds for preserving, protecting and creating multi-use trails in Idaho.

Douglas Dean Benjamin, 81

Douglas Dean Benjamin, 81 years old, passed away Sept. 3, 2016, after a courageous battle with Leukemia. He was born March 18, 1935, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He was the younger of two children of Lola Belle and Lucien Benjamin. Doug grew up in Coeur d’Alene and met his wife of 53 years, Carol, at school where they both attended. He graduated from Coeur d’Alene High School in 1954.

LIBRARIES: Fake fiscal conservative ideology

Lynn Fleming’s Aug. 16 LTE exposes the CLN trustee board majority as disingenuous and underhanded.

Prosecutor: Boston Marathon bomber wanted to terrorize U.S.

An electrifying alternative to opioids

In conjunction with local health care providers, Northwest Specialty Hospital is offering electroceutical devices as an alternative to opioid medication for pain management.

Top business story: Economy grows but hiring lags

Real estate crisis, Toyota recall and China's swellingGDP among 2010's headlines

WASHINGTON - In 2010, the economy rebounded fitfully from the Great Recession - starting strong, wobbling at midyear but showing enough vigor by year's end to quell fears of a second recession. Yet Americans hardly felt relief under the weight of high unemployment, which began the year at 9.7 percent and is now 9.8 percent.

Riding the rails for holiday adventure

Trains, planes and automobiles ... we’ve now added Amtrak to our mode of travel to see family and friends in North Dakota. When my husband and I planned a Thanksgiving visit with our oldest daughter in Reserve, Mont., (about 10 miles from the North Dakota border) and assorted Thoresons in the Williston, N.D., area, the thought of traveling by car for several hundred miles each way over a couple of mountain passes this time of year held little allure.

A consume it now society

Just as winery releases are grouped in the fall and again in the spring, visits from winery professionals seem to be concentrated in the fall and again in late winter and spring. Suffice it to say, we are seeing a lot of friends from wineries near and far right now. As we taste the latest offerings, conversation turns to the wine business overall and trends in consumption and production.

Wal-Mart sales perk up ahead of holiday

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. eked out a rare gain in an important sales measurement during the third quarter as it reported profits that beat Wall Street expectations Thursday.

Hanks drops out of Senate race, supports write-in over Souza

Shem Hanks, the former chair of the Kootenai County Democratic Central Committee, has dropped out of the race for District 4’s Senate position.

Another old friend is passing on

Sears is dying a slow, painful death. Many of us are complicit.

Here's why Santorum is wrong

Life does NOT begin at conception. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum likes to say that he doesn't BELIEVE that life begins at conception - he KNOWS it begins at conception. And his radical view on this and on contraception in general reminds me of the quote by Mark Twain. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

The Skinny on Weight Loss Meet Nickie Helms

Nickie is a 45-year-old resident of Coeur d'Alene. She is soft spoken and gentle and an absolute pleasure to know. I met Nickie in February when she came into my office for an Ideal Protein consult. She had seen our ad in the Cd'A Press and had been reading our articles on weight loss. Her weight at that time was 262 pounds. Her dress size was "a tight 22 going on 24." Over the next few months my wife Victoria and I have gotten to know Nickie and her fiance Tom and have heard her story.

Commercial building permits and the project review process

The goal of the city's building services department is to provide excellent customer service by working with citizens and their design teams to ensure a timely construction start and successful project completion.

A hill of a job

Volunteers praised for taking care of Tubbs

Tubbs Hill town hall packs 'em in

Washington boating laws change

Increased penalties for operating a boat under the influence

The Washington State Parks Commission and other boating leaders worked to amend the law to make boating safer in Washington. The changes, effective last Sunday, are intended to deter people operating a boat while under the influence (BUI) by increasing the penalty and making breathalyzer tests mandatory (in cases where an officer has probable cause).