Japan museum portrays pandemic life through everyday things

TOKYO (AP) — Takeout menus. Directions for attending a funeral. A leaflet from a local shrine, announcing the cancellation of summer festivals.

Japan museum portrays pandemic life through everyday things

TOKYO (AP) — Takeout menus. Directions for attending a funeral. A leaflet from a local shrine, announcing the cancellation of summer festivals.

Bonner County History - May 2, 2019

From the archives of the

Michael Raymond Hernandez, 50

Michael met his Savior face to face Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, after an extended stay at Kootenai Health. Though we, his family and friends, will miss him terribly, we rejoice that he is whole and healed in the presence of Jesus, and we will see him soon.

Bonner County History - Dec. 16, 2021

Bonner County Historical Society and Museum shares interesting stories of the community's people, places and events.

'The Scenic Challenge'

Coeur d'Alene Triathlon and Duathlon

BP's top kill effort on Gulf oil leak fails

Next attempt will take four days to implement

ROBERT, La. - BP admitted defeat Saturday in its attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by pumping mud into a busted well, but said it's readying yet another approach to fight the spill after a series of failures.

Bonners Ferry wins first state title in baseball

ONTARIO, Ore. — They had to weather a crazy seventh inning, as well as their starting pitcher getting struck in the face by an errant throw, but the Bonners Ferry Badgers are state baseball champs at last.

Bravettes dump Bruins

The nerves were high on the Flathead Bravettes’ sideline, which is expected with a bid to the Class AA state soccer tournament on the line, but those dissipated rather quickly.

Data center boondoggle

What is it about top executives in monopoly utilities that makes them want to play cowboy capitalists? Case in point is NorthWestern Energy’s plan to provide power to gigantic data centers. With great ballyhoo across the state, NorthWestern Energy announced it signed a “letter of intent” to provide as much as 1,000 megawatts of electricity to Quantica Infrastructure for its proposed data center. That’s more than their current total electric load of 760 megawatts. That amount of power would use all of NorthWestern’s existing generation capacity.

Data center booster crowd needs a history lesson

What is it about top executives in monopoly utilities that makes them want to play cowboy capitalists? Case in point is NorthWestern Energy’s plan to provide power to gigantic data centers.

Cabinet Peaks Medical Center named 2017 top 100 critical access hospital

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Report: Social media influencers push voting misinformation

CHICAGO (AP) — Social media influencers, partisan news outlets and even President Donald Trump's son are driving the spread of online misinformation swirling around the U.S. vote, casting doubt on this year’s election and prematurely raising suspicions about the accuracy of its results.

Report: Social media influencers push voting misinformation

CHICAGO (AP) — Social media influencers, partisan news outlets and even President Donald Trump's son are driving the spread of online misinformation swirling around the U.S. vote, casting doubt on this year’s election and prematurely raising suspicions about the accuracy of its results.

Unselfishness has a special place in business

Bill Bradley recently spoke to a group of Minnesota Timberwolves season ticketholders. The topic wasn't his stellar career, basketball strategy or memorable wins. Instead, he talked about unselfishness. After 40 years of traveling America as a Hall of Fame basketball player and a U.S. senator, the Rhodes scholar has a lot of stories to tell about the remarkable, unselfish accomplishments of people both famous and unknown. He features them during his weekly "American Voices" program on Sirius/XM Radio.

World/Nation

• Obama authorizes 1,500 more troops to Iraq

Blizzard buries Flathead Valley in over foot of snow

Residents across the Flathead Valley were digging out Thursday morning from a blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow in some locations.

Plant early with milk-jug mini-greenhouses

MOSES LAKE — Some plants are meant to be left in the ground through the winter, and now that it’s February and the ground outside is as hard as week-old peanut brittle, it’s a little late to be planting. Fortunately, there are ways to use milk jugs and even ice cube trays to get planting underway. “Some seeds need to be frozen in order to split their outer shell,” said Valerie Parrott, president of the Columbia Basin Garden Club. “Things like carnations, they really need to be cold. So, you just fill your ice cube tray (with water), dump a few seeds in one, freeze them for two weeks, then you can go outside and plant them, and that will act the same as a cold stratification ... as if they had gone through a lot of hard freeze cycles.”

The Latest: Ice rink in Spain turned into makeshift morgue

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 382,000 people and killed over 16,500. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or those with existing health problems. More than 101,000 people have recovered so far, mostly in China.

NHHS grant will allow seniors to connect virtually

NEWPORT — Newport Hospital and Health Services Foundation recently received an $8,000 grant from Innovia Foundation’s second round of COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund (Eastern Washington and North Idaho).