Rays notch 6th straight win

Station owners want BP help

Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline.

Not much change in the market

As we continue to watch market conditions we see little change in local real estate since we last reported. Agents continue to report steady activity and attribute it in part to the attractive mortgage interest rates. In fact, we have seen stability in interest rates over the last several weeks as they appear to have settled at just under 4 percent. A Friday visit to the Idaho Housing and Finance Association website (IHFA.org) shows the same 3.75 percent 30-year rate that it has for the previous two weeks.

The Internet: Clouds - servers or oligarchs?

Cloud computing is being touted by cloud vendors as the best way for Internet users to back up their files as well as receive services, such as software support, including automatic updates to their applications. These users are individuals as well as small and large organizations. Some cloud vendors offer to augment, if not replace, a company’s data center with their clouds’ data centers. Typical cloud services include:

Sandpoint Film Festival is Saturday

Sandpoint considers beer, wine, liquor tax

SANDPOINT - A proposed city tax on beer, wine and liquor sales by the drink has some local business owners questioning whether they should shoulder an additional tax burden.

Volunteers needed to drive cancer patients

A nonprofit is looking for more volunteers to drive cancer patients to their treatments.

Judd Jones: 'Going keto'

This week, I want to take another look at ketogenic nutrition programs. “Keto” has become such a catchphrase for a method of dieting and fasting that most people get it wrong.

Working together to build back stronger

CDA Area Economic Development Corp. presents annual address on housing and labor force issues

Local experts address the current state of the labor force and housing in Kootenai County.

AMERICAN INNOVATION AND CHOICE ONLINE ACT: Will hurt families

I am writing to express concern regarding legislation that is gaining traction in Congress.

Pills made from poop cure serious gut infections

Healthy Lifestyles

Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee: Doctors have found a way to put healthy people's poop into pills that can cure serious gut infections - a less yucky way to do "fecal transplants." Canadian researchers tried this on 27 patients and cured them all after strong antibiotics failed to help.

Democrats accuse oil companies of 'rip off' on gas prices

Oil executives responded that oil is a global market and that oil companies don’t dictate price

Realtors' resolution: Hope for housing market

Agents see some positive changes on horizon

Some local real estate agents see signs of hope in the housing market in the coming year.

Bargains at any time of the year!

Our regular feedback from readers splits pretty much down the middle. About half of you say “you should really do more recommendation columns,” and the other half says “you know, you kind of do too many recommendation columns.” We appreciate all the feedback we get from folks, but this tells us we probably have it pretty close to right.

Fed keeps key rate near zero, sees inflation as 'transitory'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is keeping

Sanders, Biden up attacks as head-to-head race takes shape

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — The Democratic presidential primary is down to two major candidates, and it shows.

Growing demand for U.S. apartments pushing up rents

These are good times for U.S. landlords. For many tenants, not so much.

Housing strategies, solutions

Solving the housing crisis in North Idaho is not an unattainable goal. It may be a "BHAG" — a "big hairy audacious goal" — but those who are working to accomplish this feat realize it will take collaboration, communication and innovative ways of doing things to arrive at outcomes desirable for the whole community.

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Phyllis ‘Phyd’ Gail Ellingson, 88

Defying warnings, millions in the US travel for Thanksgiving

Millions of Americans took to the skies and the highways for Thanksgiving at