New coalition forms to win road funding boost

BOISE - Gov. Butch Otter's failure to raise $174 million annually for roads and bridges in 2009 remains the biggest defeat of his seven years in office.

Ed Koch, New York's feisty mayor, dies at 88

NEW YORK (AP) - When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling.

His foil was Bobby Fischer

Local chess master still going strong at 75

One day long ago, Rick Callaghan beat Bobby Fischer in a game of chess.

Subdivision error found 15 years later

Neither city nor residents want street maintenance

POST FALLS - A planning oversight on a Post Falls subdivision 15 years ago has erupted into a controversy today.

Open at all costs: How Kootenai Health faces uncertain 2021

Kootenai Health has shouldered unimaginable burdens while working through a counter-intuitive COVID-19 business model: The fewer customers, the better.

Idaho weighs whether to adopt new CDC testing guidelines

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s public health officials are trying to decide whether they’ll officially adopt new CDC guidelines that no longer recommend coronavirus testing for

Shillington schools Trojans

Viking goalkeeper shuts out Post Falls

POST FALLS - After starting the school year on Tuesday, Coeur d'Alene High senior goalkeeper Keagan Shillington had his first 5A Inland Empire League boys soccer test later that afternoon.

World/Nation Briefs February 23, 2012

Miami, GU women prepare for showdown

Looking good in the skin you're in

One dermatologist’s perspective on aging skin

Academy Awards analysis

What makes an Oscarcast click? Will it click this year?

Stolen Valor

All of us who have served honorably deserve the distinction of our service. We show our military pride in our actions in society, and of course in the war stories that seem to be embellished over time. Sort of like telling a fish story that portrays the fish quite a bit bigger than it really was. We wear military caps to show our branch of service, and in a more formal setting we wear our service uniforms adorned with our ribbons of achievement. Wearing ribbons and medals, by the way, is voluntary for service members, and allowed to be worn on our service organizations uniforms at military events.

World/Nation

• London theater ceiling falls on audience

Taking the leap

Cruz to become first major candidate to jump into 2016 race

Strength training for better health

A recent study is showing that women who lift weights or practice strength-building yoga exercises weekly reduce their risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes. The study tracked almost 100,000 women and the findings used data from a Nurses Health Study at the Harvard School of Public Health. The study tracked these women over a set period of time, and it was determined that 60 minutes a week of strength-building reduced their risk of Type 2 diabetes. Other studies have been done regarding men and had similar findings.

Bill would punish cities defying immigration laws

COEUR d'ALENE — Cities and counties in Idaho that may wish to stop enforcing national immigration laws could see some state funding disappear.

Climate change a real threat … just ask our military

Les Atchley’s March 23 My Turn piece, “Be cautious about spending trillions on climate change,” raises some interesting points. When I looked into his sources of information, though, they raised some disturbing questions as well. For example, PragerU isn’t an academic institution (even though it sounds like it); it’s a “conservative digital media organization,” according to Wikipedia. And one of its largest donors is the fracking billionaire Wilks brothers. So PragerU is pushing the continued use of fossil fuels and has a financial stake in the matter. Readers should be aware of that bias toward fossil fuels and minimizing action on climate change, especially if it involves reining in fossil fuel interests.

Schools standards debated

Foes, backers of Idaho 'Common Core' square off

BOISE - Idaho's new Common Core standards drew a crowd Wednesday in the Capitol's auditorium for debate over the merits of this disputed educational movement.

Dilemma: Torture may be coming

It’s been lost in the noise.

Human Rights Consortium: There's work to be done here

The tumult of 2020 was punctuated by the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread demonstrations for social justice in cities around the country. We know the pandemic is