Careful when returning products

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New home sales, orders for most durable goods rise

WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes took the biggest monthly jump in 47 years in March, while orders for most large manufactured products rose by the largest amount since the recession started.

G-20 fallout: Trade barriers, tensions could rise

WASHINGTON - The world's most important economies are going home to look after themselves. They left their summit without any meaningful agreement, finding it ever harder to cooperate and more likely to erect trade barriers to protect their own interests.

Market at lowest level in a month

Weak signals on the economy send stocks plunging

NEW YORK - A series of weak economic reports sent the stock market plunging to its lowest level in a month on Wednesday.

It's still not too late to plant bulbs for spring flowers

Thanksgiving planting leads to bountiful blooms

I was at a big box store yesterday and noticed that there was a 50 percent off sign on all the spring blooming bulbs. I'm talking about tulips, daffodils, Dutch Iris, crocus, hyacinth and the like. I'm not sure if many people know this or not, but you can still plant these bulbs until the ground is frozen and you can't dig it anymore.

Agricultural aviation?

5 ways unmanned drones could affect the American food supply

Returned from Castro's grasp?

Americans cling to claims for seized property

Opposition to tuition idea is downright un-American

My father was apt to say that “opinions are like backsides, everybody’s got one.” That was never truer than in Sunday’s opinion section letter by Miss Patty McEwen.

Backpack food programs help children in need

When Denver Public Schools counselor Patricia Vaughan noticed a third-grader leaving the building with a bulging backpack, she asked him what was inside.

Helium shortage hits home

Coeur Voice writer

The bath water

As the saying goes, “don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.” Right now, you’re probably wondering what the wine angle is on that title and opening line. Well, there is one — as you might suspect. What to do when a wine we have loved, or a winery that is one of our favorites, all of a sudden doesn’t taste the same? Your first thought is either, ‘have I changed,’ or ‘has the winery changed?’ The short answer is that it could be either or both. But still the question of what to do?

Helium shortage hits home

Say helium, and the first thing people think of is the gas in balloons that makes you sound like a chipmunk. But helium is used in a wide variety of applications, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, cryogenics, welding, deep-sea diving, and medical research—not to mention inflating the Goodyear Blimp.

Inland Northwest Food Network seeks to rejuvenate farming

Teri McKenzie moved from Portland, Ore., to Coeur d’Alene for a man, but ended up falling in love with food instead — and not the way one would expect.

George Allen Stoddard, 79

George Allen Stoddard passed away in Coeur d'Alene on Feb. 3, 2013, at the age of 79. He was born the last of six children to Clarence Allen and Ida Lily Stoddard on Aug. 21,1933, in Kingston, Mo.

Cd'A Symphony to end season with a bang

Coeur d'Alene Symphony will present two performances of its season finale concert.

How much is a free event worth?

COEUR d'ALENE — Local musician Adam Foote said he was "flabbergasted" when he saw Facebook posts of people selling tickets to his performance at Art on the Green on Friday.

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Rosella J. Tucker, 93

NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE WEEK: Summer living on Lake Cd’A — Part I

Kidd Island Bay

Growing again

U.S. retail sales rise in April on cars, clothing

McDonald's gives chicken wings another trial run