OPINION: E Pluribus Unum

As one, we can halt the backsliding

MY TURN: Still fighting the same fight

This past week I took a road trip to Boise with mom for a funeral. Just prior to our leaving, mom asked if I had heard about the recent events in Coeur d'Alene with the Utah women's basketball team. I had not. Apparently, there were one or more vehicles racing up and down Sherman shouting racial slurs at the group of players, who happen to have a few black members. These people were simply enjoying beautiful downtown Coeur d'Alene, or at least, were trying to.

First vessel uses alternate channel to bypass wreckage at the Baltimore bridge collapse site

Shipping costs and commute times will also increase for the working-class, water-oriented communities on either side of the bridge

A decade of 'Good Samaritan'

Thrift Store has funded 50 people in rehabilitation program

In a decade, the Good Samaritan Thrift Store has produced $1.75 million in sales and received $32,600 in donations. It has provided financial support for 50 people to go through the rehabilitation program, a nonprofit dedicated to helping men and women overcome substance abuse and addictions.

‘Sing with a good heart’

Drummers kick off American Indian Heritage Week at NIC

Drummers kick off American Indian Heritage Week at NIC

Hopes are high for Kellogg summer concert series

Vendors, sponsors needed

The Music in the Park concert series is just a few months away and the Silver Valley Chamber wants 2024 to be the best that the summer series has ever been.

Don't accept until you check

Here are tips to become and solid fact-checker

Legals for April, 2 2024

Legals for April, 2 2024

Chad Daybell on trial after deaths of wife and 2 children found buried in Idaho

Daybell also is charged with insurance fraud in connection with Tammy Daybell's death and two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and grand theft by deception in the children's deaths.

Thunderstorm season is upon us

April has arrived, and we’ve already had one thunderstorm in the Coeur d’Alene area, which occurred March 27. Although we do get our share of thunder, lightning, hail and even a rare tornado, the severity of these storms does not compare to the ones seen east of the Rockies, especially in the Great Plains and the Midwest’s "Tornado Alley."

THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: STINK on stuff — Former Vandal and NFL player, and current analyst Schlereth, weighs in on football, former teammates and his nickname

“If I’ve got availability, have bags, will travel,” said Schlereth, currently an analyst for Fox Sports. “That’s where I am when it comes to helping out Idaho, because, to be honest with you man, being a kid that came out of Alaska, they’re the place that gave me the opportunity to continue to live out my dream of making it to the NFL, and nobody else seemed to be very interested in doing that. So, I owe them a debt of gratitude. Anytime I can pay that forward, I am definitely willing and able.”

'We're always telling our story'

Beth Rich's Mix It Up stores receive global recognition

Mix It Up Home Gift recently was honored at the annual Inspired Home Show 2024 in Chicago as among the world’s most innovative and creative home and housewares retailers are honored at the annual IHA Global Innovation Awards program.

‘Celebrations of Christ’

North Idaho’s faithful observe Easter

In a manner of speaking, Christians celebrate throughout the year. That’s how Dan Deuel, senior pastor at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Coeur d’Alene, looks at it.

Huckleberries: Seattle's all wet; water skiing was invented in Cd'A

Returning heroes, leaning barns and true leaders

Important housing bill signed into law

Gives property renters in housing communities chance to buy the real estate

RECYCLE: If not now, when?

Are we someday going to get serious about recycling in Coeur d’Alene? The first Earth Day was many years ago…

POLICE: Thanks to Chief White, officers

In today’s climate, where law enforcement often faces more criticism than praise, I felt compelled to write a letter of gratitude to Chief Lee White and his dedicated officers at the Coeur d’Alene Police Dept.

EDITORIAL: A happy hymn for Easter Sunday

Take it from the top, Van-Dogs

Louise Ann Hartley, 73

Born to Lyman George Edward and Marjorie Evelyn McKay on January 24, 1951, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Louise Ann Hartley, beloved mother and wife, reached out to Jesus’s hand and went to heaven with her immediate family surrounding her on March 1, 2024.

Celebrate National Humor Month with a laugh

I like to find humor in most situations, no matter how dire. Take for example the devastating tornadoes that hit my home city of Minneapolis in the summer of 1987. There was massive damage, and people were emotionally distraught. Our local newspaper pictured a man standing by his car, which had been crushed by a fallen tree. He was smiling, waving at people driving by and holding a sign that read, "new-style compact car."