U.S. producer prices fall in April

Wholesale prices have dropped 1.3 percent in past year

WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharp drop in the cost of gasoline and food pushed down overall U.S. producer prices in April.

Gas price rising

First large January jump since 2009

Gas price rising

WARMING: Cool off the hot words

Regardless of your feelings on “Global Warming” (aka Global Climate Change), I found it objectionable, in poor taste and just plain rude for Mr. Ritterbach to begin his letter to the editor with name calling. If you have a counter argument, present it, don’t stoop to gutter sniping. His entire argument was overshadowed by his politically charged verbal broadside. I would expect more from a supposedly stable, educated member of this community. Sir, it was just plain ugly.

NAZIS: Permits be damned

In regard to the events in Charlottesville this last Saturday, someone is going to try to point out that the white nationalist demonstrators had permits and the counter-demonstration were by default in the wrong because they did not have permits. I would like to preemptively address this view.

BEARCAT: Poor spending decision

A $335,000 BearCat is expected to arrive at the end of the month — an 8-ton armored personnel carrier “Response Counter Attack Truck” built with steel armor and ballistic glass. WOW, what a way to spend public money, “the confiscated dirty drug money.”

Psst: That's not Amazon with a $100 cash present

There’s an email going around the internet like a rash. In big splashy “Amazon” colors and copied fonts it announces that you have won a $100 gift certificate because you are a “good and faithful” customer. All you need to do is take a short three-question survey.

William Henry 'Bill' Price, 90

William Henry "Bill" Price, 90, of the Wolf Lodge area, was called to Heaven and into the loving arms of his Lord and Savior, on Aug. 30, 2012. He died of pneumonia while staying at Ivy Court Nursing home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Lawsuit: Growers skewed spud prices

BOISE - A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers' pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America's spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to enforce strict limits on how many tubers they can grow.

Take the tube

Entrepreneur unveils 'Hyperloop' transport concept

Snow can't stop biker

COEUR d'ALENE - Those two tires have rolled across Death Valley, cruised the Las Vegas Strip, traversed Hells Canyon and now, thanks to 250 studs Troy Chandler put in himself while watching television one evening, are crunching over the snowy streets of Coeur d'Alene.

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Evelyn Montreuil

Summer programs planned at libraries

On your mark. Get set. Read.

Silver lining

By BILL BULEY

Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival tickets available Dec. 2

From Peru with love

Handcrafted Teddy Bears and stuffed Alpacas create a one-of-a-kind gift for that special person

Charles Ivan Archer, 84

Charles Ivan Archer, 84, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, graduated from this earthly life Oct. 11, 2016. Ivan was the son of Richard and Olive “Gertrude” Archer and was born Sept. 11, 1932, in a weather boarded log cabin, without running water or electricity, on his grandfather’s farm in Noble County, Ohio.

Monsters and much more

'Scarywood' opens tonight with more fright-night horrors

Monsters don't say boo.

Tucked away in Post Falls - Hunters Glen

Hunters Glen is the type of neighborhood you stumble upon and say, “Wow, this a nice little secret.”

Bebe Love, 98

Billie Burke (Sanders) “Bebe” Love, 98, passed away on Friday, May 26, 2023, in Sandpoint, Idaho.

Cd'A trustees to host community forum Saturday

Budget shortfall to be main topic

Trustees of the Coeur d'Alene School District will hold a "Fresh-Air Forum" from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday at McIntire Family Park, 8930 N. Government Way, Hayden.