Legislators in no rush to reconvene

McGeachin's request based on hospitals' vaccine mandates

Bedke: Republicans usually stay out of businesses' business.

Cd'A schools might discuss new mask recommendation

CdA School District currently not requiring face coverings

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North Idaho Memories: Windshield repair for $5 and a six-pack

"In August of 1979, Paul 'Torgy' Torgerson moved to Coeur d'Alene to start the innovative windshield repair business. And 45 years later, 'Torgy' continues to come to you anywhere in North Idaho to repair and save your windshield!"

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From mild 'El Nino' to a wet 'La Nina'

Weather Gems

Here's a month-by-month review of 2010's weather, which continued the recent trend of "wide weather extremes."

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A $209 million school levy election day

$208,877,000.

LEGION BASEBALL: DeBoer shines as Lums win Ellensburg tourney

"He was awesome today," Coeur d'Alene coach Darren Taylor said. "He threw a gem in that first game; that was the real championship game. They're a real good team; that was a fun game to watch. They had a good pitcher going, and went blow for blow."

Miracle atop a mountain for father, son

Last Wednesday Eric English and Keith Richardson headed out for a dirt bike ride. Eric’s 75-year-old dad, Bruce English, was joining buddies on ATVs for a ride. Neither Eric nor Bruce knew where the other was planning to ride. Eric and Keith left from Bear Creek, east of Kellogg and Bruce’s group left from Pine Creek near Pinehurst.

Tent gives hospital virus testing tool

Governor: Idaho is well-prepared

First Amendment and education: Two gems

Anyone who values the First Amendment should also value Voltaire and Mark Twain, for both men gave us wise words regarding freedom of speech. I revisited their wisdom after a "My Turn" article published about a month ago caused a barrage of negative responses in this paper.

The Front Row with MARK NELKE Aug. 21, 2011

Taking the long road back in time

Highway 20, an east/west roadway through the center of Oregon, is a path I had not traveled in some 40 years.

Droughts put crops at risk around the world

The government of North Korea this past week reported an "extremely severe drought crisis" that could worsen already critical food shortages across the country.

LEGION BASEBALL: Lums bow out at state AA tourney

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500-year weather 'extremes' at all ends of the country

Weather Gems

Talk about WIDE WEATHER 'EXTREMES,' as we entered the second week of May last Wednesday, we were seeing record cold, snow and ice in areas near the U.S./Canada border; all-time record heat, fires and dust storms in the central and southern Great Plains causing additional damage to the 2014 hard red winter wheat crop; a 500-year drought in California and the Desert Southwest and much debris leftover in the southeastern U.S. from a late April 500-year rain that produced nearly 20 inches of rain in a single day on April 30 at Pensacola, Fla., more precipitation than Los Angeles has received in the past three years combined.

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Weathering the storm

Weathering the storm

Prep basketball media polls

Records through Tuesday, Dec. 7

Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley - a man of the winter season

Weather Gems

The winter of 2010-11 has been extremely cold and snowy in the Jericho, Vt., area, where Sharon and I lived between May of 1995 and August of 2003, and where Wilson 'Snow-flake' Bentley was born on Feb. 9, 1865, toward the end of the Civil War, on a tiny farm near town.