Silver Bridge discussed heavily at open house

The Silver Bridge, which crosses the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River and conjoins the Old River Road with Coeur d’Alene River Road, was originally scheduled to begin construction in September of this year, but that has been pushed back due to several issues.

Gloria Culver, 71

Gloria June Culver was born on Jan. 27, 1953, to Ruth H. (Thompson) Bjorklund and Tracy A. Bjorklund in Maywood, Calif.

Weekend TV/Radio highlights

Television, radio and streaming highlights for upcoming weekend.

North Idaho receives funding to combat impaired driving

The North Idaho DUI Task Force is a coalition of 15 regional law enforcement agencies.

OPINION: Multiplication of division

America is divided. Ask most anyone and they would likely agree. However, you may not get consensus on the reason for the division, or where the fracture actually lays. It is as if we have a general feeling of division but among your known circle of friends and acquaintances, specific boundaries of disagreement become blurred.

Maurice A. Roberts, 87

Maurice A. Roberts was born Sept. 4, 1936, near Booker, Texas, to Howard and Virginia (Stanton) Roberts, and passed away May 2, 2024, in Hayden Lake, Idaho.

TERM LIMITS: Would help our country

I have a suggestion for improving our United States government that should be popular with most Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and independent voters.

Vonda Faye Aamodt, 88

Vonda Faye Aamodt, 88, of Kellogg, Idaho, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister, passed away June 5, 2024, at Silverton Health and Rehabilitation of Cascadia in Silverton, Idaho, surrounded by her family.

Legals for June, 7 2024

Power outage reported in Coeur d'Alene

Around 12:40 p.m. Thursday, an outage was reported affecting approximately 8,500 customers on an Avista Utilities outage map for the Coeur d'Alene area.

THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: Deal or no deal, the Mariners must address bullpen

However they work out this bullpen situation, go ahead and bet they’ll add more than one power arm. Getting this thing right could mean a World Series.

Walls raised in Rathdrum for new First Story home

Drawing on the walls wasn’t frowned upon Wednesday as Xena Reeser drew a cat she named Frankie on her new home to be. Sarah Reeser and her daughters, Xena and Freja Reeser, found out in early March they were becoming homeowners through the regional homebuying nonprofit, First Story.

Dance Alliance performance tonight at Kroc Center

Local students to be featured in prelude

The Dance Alliance, the elite dance company of Brigham Young University-Idaho, will perform its new work, "Now and Then: 60 Years of the Beatles," at 7:30 tonight at the Kroc Center.

F&G confirms the first grizzly bear sighting west of I-15 in the Upper Snake Region

With spring and summer activities in full swing across most of the state, now is the prefect time to review and abide by some basic bear awareness reminders – both while recreating in the woods and while living in close proximity to bears. Read on for some helpful tips on both fronts.

Idaho farmers say water curtailment order will dry up land, push them out of business

Idaho Department of Water Resources issued May 27 order that could dry up 500,000 acres of Idaho farmland

Meanwhile, the crops are already in the ground. Young has already invested in seed, fertilizer and other inputs he said total $400 per acre.

Harvey Horton Ekins, 83

Harvey H. Ekins was born May 21, 1941, in New Rochelle, N.Y., and died June 4, 2024, at the Life Care Center in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. His father was a newspaper reporter and foreign correspondent Herbert Roslyn (HR) “Bud” Ekins and his mother was Ted Catherine (Lowrance) Ekins. In 1950, his father bought the Goldthwaite Eagle Texas newspaper and Harv lived in Texas several years until the family returned to New York.

Kootenai County commissioners look to cut $7-$9 million to balance budget

Kootenai County commissioners took a first look Tuesday at the proposed budget for fiscal year 2025.

It's trout stocking time!

Here's what's headed to Panhandle waters this June

Welcome in summer with some great fishing opportunity

Legals for June, 6 2024

Montana US Sen. Jon Tester to face GOP newcomer Tim Sheehy in election key to Senate control

The Tester and Sheehy campaigns already have been pounding each other on the airwaves in an advertising blitz that's expected to intensify as November approaches.