Project Help the Homeless

Through the eyes of a 12-year-old, it’s just not OK for people in the Northwest to be homeless and hungry.

Get your family started recycling

(StatePoint) - In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (April 22, 2010), now is a great time for many Americans to renew their commitment to helping protect and preserve the environment. An easy way to do this is to recycle.

For crazy weeknights, dinner in a bag that isn't takeout

Life is busy. We don't always have the luxury of thumbing through our favorite cookbooks, marking appealing recipes with sticky notes for dinners sometime off in the future when we will somehow have time to salt-cure a cod or dry-age a side of beef in our garage fridge. Sometimes, we just need to get dinner on the table. It doesn't have to be fancy, but it should still be tasty and nutritious.

3 fresh takes on the basic boneless chicken breast

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are literally THE white meat of the meat world. They are a great lean protein, quick and easy to prepare, freeze well, and take to just about any flavor or cuisine you care for. But they also can be rather dull. So we've come up with three ways to jazz up this weeknight staple.

Safe and healthy travels!

Traveling can be so much fun and I can't wait to fit lots of it into my summer. It can also be really rough on the body. Whether you are traveling alone, on a business trip or you're on your way to an amazing family vacation, long hours in a car or an airplane can leave your mind and your body stressed, tired and sore.

Where's the beef? In this Frito pie recipe

This is one of those recipes that feels a little trashy, but it's so good you won't care.

Do you have pain that comes and goes fairly often?

Pain can go away or vary from day to day, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a problem. For example, if you notice pain in your lower back or your knee every time you go up and down the steps, then this is a sign of a problem. The more you ignore it, the greater the problem can become. Pain does not simply go away or fix itself; your body usually adapts and makes it seem like the issue is resolved. This is why, when you least expect it, you bend over, brush your hair or lift a grocery bag and the pain brings you to your knees.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things!

The holidays are here and for many of us it means traveling to see family and friends. Traveling can be fun but it can also be really rough on the body. Whether you are traveling alone or on your way to an amazing family vacation, long hours in a car or an airplane can leave your mind and your body stressed, tired and sore. Don't forget to keep your physical health in mind as you plan your trip. I have suggestions for you to help those trips be the best ever and will explain why it's so very important to follow these guidelines.

A sobering reminder

By DEVIN WEEKS

Rathdrum woman pleads guilty to killing newborn

A Rathdrum woman could spend life in prison after she pleaded guilty to killing her newborn baby last year.

Asparagus and porkget gussied up with a lemon-truffle sauce

One of my favorite summer meals is asparagus and pork chops cooked to perfection on the grill. It's a fast and effortless meal that is perfect for summer weeknights.

Grilled chicken salad: A healthy choice for Labor Day cookouts

Labor Day, summer's last hurrah, is a feast day. And mostly - Tell the truth! - we tend to overdo it. Ribs, steaks, burgers and hot dogs? Check, check, check and check!

Healthy learning: Pack that backpack right

As you send your child or teen back to school you're double checking that you have gotten everything checked off the list. But did you check the safety of their backpack? According to doctors, between the ages 11-16 is the period of most rapid growth and is also the period of time when most children are in school, 175 days a year. If we assume that kids start wearing a backpack in the first grade on through high school, that adds up to around five years of solid backpack wearing!

Students 'Kick Butts'

Annual activity fights against tobacco use

HAYDEN - Colorful balloons and body bags stood in stark contrast Wednesday as area teens participated in Kick Butts Day, a national anti-tobacco campaign in its 15th year.

Pork with a fresh take on salsa - grilled cherries

By this point in the summer, I've had about all the burgers, dogs and birds I can handle. It's time to try something a little different on the grill.

Bodyguard: Jackson doc said to put vials in bag

Scenario laid out in court during Murray's trial

LOS ANGELES - As Michael Jackson's lifeless body lay on a bed in his palatial mansion, a bodyguard obeyed a frantic doctor's instructions to bag up medicine bottles and intravenous bags and shield the Jackson children from seeing their father - all before being told to call 911, court testimony revealed Wednesday.

'Lake bagging:'

Hike and swim in Cascade waters

OLALLIE LAKE SCENIC AREA, Ore. (AP) - We'd been trekking through the forest for half a mile, navigating by landmarks and occasional glances at the map, when a small body of water appeared through the trees.

Pulled pork makes friends with soba noodle soup

We tend to associate pulled pork with Southern-style barbecue. But for this hearty fall soup, we decided to take our favorite moist and tender pork in a decidedly Japanese direction.

THE HEAVY LEAF LIFT BEGINS

CDA's massive annual pickup program is underway

Leaf it to Coeur d'Alene

Second woman sentenced in body dumping

COEUR d’ALENE — A woman who said she was coerced into dumping the body of her friend into Lake Coeur d’Alene after the friend died of a drug overdose in Spokane Valley was sentenced to five years in prison.