Pro-life group opposes state-based insurance exchange

Idaho Chooses Life (ICL), the largest pro-life group in the Gem State, has formally declared its opposition to lawmakers giving the green light to building a state-based health insurance exchange.

Fair awards presented

Volunteer, business of year honored

Eye on Idaho

'Gems of Light' will be on display at Cd'A library

COEUR d'ALENE - When Linda Lantzy drives Idaho's back roads, she is there for two reasons.

$1.4B in national jackpots

Mega Millions, Powerball tickets going fast

$1.4B in Idaho jackpots

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — World class

We just held a tasting here at the shop with DuMol Winery from the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County. For regular readers of this column, you know our fondness for wines from “The Russian” after our time living in Sonoma County and more specifically my time at Balletto Vineyards. To us it is one of the most magical appellations of any wine region in the world, perfectly suited for the varietals that are planted there. Mary and I always get the question of what our favorite wine is, which of course is unanswerable, but digging a bit deeper on the wines we truly love we would place DuMol in our top 3 favorites from anywhere, to us the wines are that good.

The northern U.S. and northern Europe are cooling

Weather Gems

According to recent studies by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature team of scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, our current global temperatures "are all over the map."

Republicans focus on unified party

GOP members: Keep Idaho 'the most conservative state in union'

Neighborhood of the week: Forest Ridge Estates

What do people picture when they think of North Idaho - well, besides potatoes? Folks in the know are well aware that the true gems of our fair state are the mountains, the rivers, the lakes - and the forests.

Junk ... or gems?

Treasure Hunters Roadshow begins Tuesday

Everyone has their treasures.

STATE: Meet your obligations

Despite a tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals in 2012, and another tax cut for businesses in 2013, there still seems to be a modest surplus projected for the state treasury this fiscal year. The governor, most of the Legislature and business lobbyists were in town last week to talk about that. Their solutions involve giving big business another big tax cut next year. Before the Legislature devises yet another way to further deplete the treasury, shouldn’t the Legislature first focus on adequately funding its current obligations?

MITCHELL: An Idaho gem

I am writing this as a personal letter of support and not as a representative of my employer or the boards on which I serve.

The fair awakens

COEUR d’ALENE — Today is opening day of the North Idaho State Fair, where fairgoers will have an out-of-this-world experience.

A bike tour of the Gem State

Ride Idaho begins in Cd'A Sunday

COEUR d'ALENE - Energy bar. Check.

USS Idaho crew visits North Idaho

For the first time in nearly 100 years, a naval vessel will bear the name Idaho.

Adapting to the increasing risks of harsher weather won't be easy ... or cheap

Weather Gems

Jerry Jaeger, president and co-owner of the Hagadone Hospitality Company of Coeur d'Alene, sent me a copy of the March 22 Kiplinger Letter detailing our nation's weather woes stemming from the worst cycle of 'extremes' since just prior to the Little Ice Age in the 1300s.

Capture or death

U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave a grim assessment of terrorist’s choice: Capture or death.

The coldest and mildest winters since 1895 in Coeur d'Alene

Weather Gems

Last week in 'Gems,' we featured the all-time Coeur d'Alene snowfall records for the past 116 years dating back to 1895. Each season ends officially on June 30.

To get an accurate total, snow must be measured at least six times a day

Weather Gems

Several Press subscribers have asked me why I seem to measure more snowfall each winter season on Player Drive than they see at their particular location in town.

CHARTER: An Idaho gem

Thanks to the Coeur d’Alene Press and Judd Wilson, there has been a very nefarious scheme to see to it the Charter Academy isn’t recognized as one of the best highs in the U.S. The problem turns out to be our own Idaho Department of Education. Apparently, the entire staff of that department has no idea how to read a calendar to be able to get the information to U.S. News & World Reports timely.

Spokane Symphony announces 76th season

Concerts start in September with full audience seating

Free Labor Day weekend concerts return