KELLY’S SURVEY: Here’s my answer

Cecil Kelly III stated while he was buying candy bars at the local bar (that’s where I buy my candy bars too), he was asked by true Americans how it felt being the most hated local.

Thank You Notes

If you follow those national day calendars – and I do,

The looming risks behind DNA testing

People want to know their genetic makeup and for about $70, Ancestry DNA, 23andMe or MyHeritage DNA (to name a few) can answer that question along with others — like what are your potential health risks or can you discover long-lost family members?

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Mitzi Rae Burns, 81

The looming risks behind DNA testing

People want to know their genetic makeup and for about $70, Ancestry DNA, 23andMe or MyHeritage DNA (to name a few) can answer that question along with others — like what are your potential health risks or can you discover long-lost family members?

Sports betting venues could be boon to Idaho

This is the last of a two-part series looking at the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that tossed out a 1992 law banning sports gambling in all but a few locations across the country.

Writers Corner for April 20, 2012

Spokane's small businesses starting to feel the pinch as customers stay away over virus concerns

The Garland Business District was abnormally quiet Friday afternoon. Its pedestrian-friendly streets were empty and some shops – normally open on weekdays – were closed.

Rescued dolphins swim free from Indonesia sanctuary

The trio were rescued three years ago from their tiny pool in a resort hotel

Water worries

City director urges conservation ahead of summer demand

No water woes yet

Happy entrepreneurship month!

Each year since 2011, the month of November is celebrated as National Entrepreneurship Month in the United States, a time to recognize the business owners who serve their communities and bolster the American economy by creating employment for millions of people. During the second full week of November, Nov. 13 to 19 this year, we also recognize the American spirit of entrepreneurship abroad by celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Sweet, brown, and soon to be extinct?

Chocoholics: You have seven years to find a new fix.

Movers & Shakers April 27, 2010

Sterling plans for recovery

'They really care'

Ironman volunteers get credit for race's success

COEUR d'ALENE - When Connie Price came out of a chilly Lake Coeur d'Alene following a 2.4-mile swim Sunday in the Ford Ironman Coeur d'Alene, she was "freezing cold."

Exxon shareholders reject climate change resolution

DALLAS - Shareholders of big oil companies overwhelmingly rejected several environmental resolutions including proposals to put climate-change experts on their boards and set goals for greenhouse-gas emissions.

Regulatory fees increase the cost of new housing

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently sent a message to local builders to appeal to local, state and national leaders to reduce regulatory charges in order to bring home prices down. Locally, builders pay impact fees to jurisdictions where they build new homes.

Vietnam vet honors his brothers of long ago

Michelle Miller of Coeur d’Alene shared a touching story that only a few people in her Avondale neighborhood would know about.

Pynchon, Lahiri among book award finalists

NEW YORK - Publishers hope that the new rules in place for the National Book Awards, for which the first-ever long-lists were announced this week, will lead to the kind of sales enjoyed by winners of Britain's Man Booker Prize.

OPINION: Principle or power

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” — Alexander Hamilton

Appreciating our pastors

Show your love in a number of ways

“Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will