Post Falls tree giveaway continues

Post Falls tree giveaway continues

Task force celebrates sale of former Aryan Nations land

Foundation creates endowment for NIC

A little aggressive

My friend Noah is a little aggressive.

What do you do when your child has a bottomless stomach?

Do you worry that your child's appetite is setting them up for weight struggles in the future? Every child is unique and it is often not easy to know if they are born with insatiable appetites or if they have learned to eat large quantities of food from their environment.

What women want

An Internet story has been circulating. In it, King Arthur, under threat of death, must answer this question: "What do women really want?" Arthur trades Sir Lancelot's hand in marriage to a horribly ugly witch for the answer: "To be in charge of their own lives."

V-J Day flashback to Japan bombings

On Aug. 6, 1945, the "Enola Gay" dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. "Fat Man" was the atomic bomb dropped by "Bockscar" on Nagasaki on Aug. 9. The detonation on Hiroshima killed 90,000-166,000, and Nagasaki lost 60,000-80,000. Half of the total deaths occurred immediately upon detonation of the bombs in each city.

Misfile leads to write-in campaign

The Kootenai County Clerk's Office and a Mica Kidd Island resident disagree on how his initial candidacy paperwork for fire district commissioner was misfiled.

Cortisone appropriate for arthritis

DEAR DR. GOTT: I am a 54-year-old female with osteoarthritis in both hips. My general practitioner sent me to an out-of-state specialist who recommended cortisone injections. When I tried to have cortisone injections done by a local specialist, I was told that they would not help me because I don't have bursitis.

Stabbing suspect was bound for Israel

ATLANTA (AP) - Elias Abuelazam was about to board a plane for Israel when police arrested him in connection with a three-month stabbing spree that left five men dead, 13 others wounded and a Michigan city in terror. In the moments before the pudgy man in flip-flops and shorts was handcuffed, passengers saw him nervously talking on his cellphone, insisting he wasn't violent.

To wheat their own ...

For all I know, there are two kinds of people in this world: Triscuit lovers and Wheat Thin fans.

The cause of motion sickness

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The roots of pain

This weekend was really beautiful! I couldn’t help but go into my garden and do a little weeding to take advantage of the sunshine. As I was weeding, I was thinking about pain. Correlations between the two began to take shape:

Toenail fungus has many remedies but is hard to cure

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World/Nation

Apple unveils smartwatch, bets on wearable devices

World/Nation

Righting history

Rock Hill, S.C., mayor speaks at annual Human Rights Banquet

$4M in U.S. projects aim to protect sage grouse habitat

Plan to follow an order for a 'science based' strategy

BOISE - Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Wednesday announced more than $4 million in projects in four states as part of a wildfire-fighting strategy to protect a wide swath of intermountain West sagebrush country that supports cattle ranching and is home to a struggling bird species.

An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, study says

Takes more than one kind of food to make a healthy diet

CHICAGO - An apple a day doesn't necessarily keep the doctor away. That's according to proverb-busting research that found daily apple eaters had just as many doctor visits as those who ate fewer or no apples.

Senators oppose Prop 2

COEUR d’ALENE — Two senators from Kootenai County joined colleagues from across the Gem State to oppose Proposition 2 in an Oct. 31 press release. Sen. Mary Souza and Sen. Steve Vick shared Sen. Steven Thayn’s concerns that the proposed expansion of Medicaid may come back to haunt Idaho in the future.