Your choices

For the next couple of months, wine consumers will be bombarded with this list and that list of the best wines. From big box retailers to wine publications, there will be many interpretations of what constitutes a great wine. As a wine writer who also works daily with customers, I take a different approach, highlighting the wines that you, North Idaho wine consumers, think are the best, based on which ones you come back and buy over and over again. As we say, what matters most is what you like. So here are the wines you have voted for, not in a survey, but with your pocket books and money clips.

Police called to heated library board meeting

Library network board to explore possible solutions regarding children's books

Police were called Thursday to the Post Falls Library during a powder keg of a public comment period at the start of the Community Library Network's board meeting.

Dogs get their day

COEUR d'ALENE - Dogs, Monday is your day.

HUMANE: Losing an unlucky friend

I am sad. I have volunteered at the Kootenai Humane Society animal shelter for three years. I can only go once a week because I work full time at another job. I am not an authority on animal behavior and do not have a business sense of things. I spoke with another long-time volunteer last evening. Since we no longer volunteer on the same days she deeps me informed on the dogs who get their well deserved “forever home.” She told me about a dog, named Lotto, who is going to be killed this coming week at the shelter. Apparently an adult woman put her fingers between the chain links of his small kennel and he bit her. Now her partner is demanding that the dog be euthanized. So, Lotto is kenneled in the back room awaiting the 10 days holding time that is “required” to make sure he does not have rabies.

Sharon Louise Decker, 77

Sharon Louise Decker April 4, 1945 - September 30, 2022

DEFENSE: Why we have 2nd Amendment

Whether local, state or federal, law enforcement has no mandate to protect a U.S. citizen. They all have a mandate to ENFORCE THE LAW. Our founding fathers understood this when adding the Second Amendment to the Constitution. The God-given right of self-defense of one’s person, family, property, cattle, horses, etc., is an individual responsibility — just part of a well-regulated militia.

Fast Five: Charlie Cederquist: Serving North Idaho with a smile since ‘03

By DEVIN WEEKS

First full-face transplant performed

MADRID - A team of surgeons has carried out the world's first full-face transplant on a young Spanish farmer unable to breathe or eat on his own since accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

King's pledge of service defines UK's modern monarchy

Charles’ reign, and the future of the monarchy, will rest on whether he and his heir, Prince William, can maintain that link in a country that is much less deferential to royalty than the one that cheered Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953

IDFG to meet in Kellogg July 7-8

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission during a July meeting at the Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg will consider additional methods in taking wolves and other changes to big game rules.

Wake-restricting rule at southwest Idaho lake drawing ire

NAMPA (AP) - A recently released management plan for a southwest Idaho federal wildlife refuge should be changed to be more accommodating for water skiing, U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Canyon County commissioners said.

Betty Lokay, 97

Betty Lokay (Nina Elizabeth Franklin) passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2016, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. At her request no memorial service will be held.

James Franklin Robison, 76

James “Jim R” Franklin Robison, of Spokane Valley, Wash., passed into the arms of his Heavenly Father peacefully with his family at his side on Jan. 21, 2016, at the age of 76. Jim was born on July 23, 1939, in Burley, Idaho, to John and Janice (Bostic) Robison.

Playtime is more than fun

Anyone born before the computer age has noticed: Playtime isn't what it used to be. Once satisfied with a stack of blocks or generic doll, yesterday's children littered the streets with bikes and balls every afternoon. Today's kids are rarely seen outdoors and even the dolls have screen names: Transformers, Angry Birds, and video game characters.

Shoppers clears store shelves of hand sanitizers, bottled water

MOSES LAKE — One of the many side effects of the worldwide attention to COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, was on display outside the Winco Foods store in Moses Lake on Sunday afternoon.

Dorothy Ruth Mai Beddor, 84 Aug. 25, 1927 - Jan. 23, 2012

Dorothy Ruth Mai Beddor passed away peacefully after spending a joyous Sunday celebrating her 65th Wedding Anniversary to her best friend Harold Lloyd Beddor. She slipped from consciousness late Sunday afternoon.

Idaho Briefs December 28, 2011

Idaho defends new legislative map

Deal signed, bison going to Fort Peck

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Sixty-four bison from Yellowstone National Park are due to arrive on northeast Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation on Monday under a long-stalled initiative to repopulate parts of the West with the iconic animals.

Capitol watch: Education bills and animal cruelty legislation

Marlo Faulkner named grand marshal of Fourth parade

Faulkner named grand marshal