ER visits for concussions soar among kid athletes

Healthy Lifestyles

CHICAGO - Emergency room visits for school-age athletes with concussions has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting the intensity of kids' sports has increased along with awareness of head injuries.

The Latest: Virus interrupts school for 363 million students

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The Latest: Panic buying in Madrid as virus cases triple

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Art of being good hosts and guests

The Flathead Valley is one of the top vacation destinations in the United States and the people of the Valley are incredible hosts. Our visitors are exposed to magnificent scenery, one of the most beautiful national parks and superb fishing. Sometimes visitors are content to merely sit and visit with old (and new) friends.

K.J. Wright, Seahawks help with medical mission to Nigeria

MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Medical Team is doing its part to make the world a better place and the Seattle Seahawks and their fans are helping fund those efforts.

India Carney visits with Bigfork music students

The music students of Bigfork Middle and High Schools enjoyed a first-week-of-school bonus last Wednesday when India Carney visited. India was in town for the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival, where she performed in several evening events and taught a master class in stage presence and performance. India is well known to many as a top five finisher on last spring's run of NBC's The Voice. Only 22 years old, this recent UCLA graduate (from the opera department, no less!) has built up an impressive C. V.—with musical theater, dance, directing, a cappella groups, music videos, and much more to her credit. But her big dreams are pop music and Broadway, and the Bigfork music students, grades 6-12, were eager to learn from her. At 150 strong, they met India in the gymnasium and pelted her with questions: How did you get on The Voice? What is Christina Aguilera really like? Do you get nervous on stage? India answered all queries, and offered a few of her own, asking the students what music means to them. "It calms me." It excites me." "It's a safe place all my own." After much lively discussion, some of the students sang for India, and she coached them on improving their performances. The seventh-and-eighth grade choir also sang for India, before their time together was up. The event ended with enthusiastic cheers and a "mob shot" photograph that India promptly posted on Instagram. What a time we had at the school! What a blessing India has been to this community. Will she come back? She says she is eager to, and we plan to hold her to that promise.

Art of being good hosts and guests

The Flathead Valley is one of the top vacation destinations in the United States and the people of the Valley are incredible hosts. Our visitors are exposed to magnificent scenery, one of the most beautiful national parks and superb fishing. Sometimes visitors are content to merely sit and visit with old (and new) friends.

Art of being good hosts and guests

The Flathead Valley is one of the top vacation destinations in the United States and the people of the Valley are incredible hosts. Our visitors are exposed to magnificent scenery, one of the most beautiful national parks and superb fishing. Sometimes visitors are content to merely sit and visit with old (and new) friends.

Troop 17 visits Helena Capitol

Troop 17 visits Helena Capitol

Open letter from Benewah prosecutor

Dear Editor:

GTA receives $3.6 million

Stimulus money to build Moses Lake facility

EPHRATA — Grant Transit Authority received $3.6 million in federal stimulus money to build a new operations and maintenance facility in Moses Lake.

Bigfork Chamber brings in $10,925 for Salvation Army

“Just like always - we ask and Bigfork rises to the occasion,” said former chamber president Janine Beaubien.

Commission accepts Avista's natural gas plan

Regulators have accepted Avista Utilities’ 20-year natural gas plan, but also are recommending changes in future plans, including a more convenient meeting site for North Idaho stakeholders.

Sandpoint Christian students offering PAS a helping hand

SANDPOINT — Bare dirt in the spring, choked by weeds in the summer and a barren stretch of snow or mud in the winter.

Veterans village would help those who served

This letter is in response to an article in your Feb. 27 paper titled: “Neighbors rally in opposition to project before formal application, Veterans’ village envisioned.”

Flashy storms pack a charge, drop little moisture

By KYLE McCLELLAN The Western News

Bullock: Coal, wind needed in climate plan

BILLINGS (AP) — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said the Obama administration needs to spend more money to improve coal plant technologies and clear the way for more wind power if it’s serious about countering climate change.

Start your engines

One after the the other, cars zipped along Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive on a late Saturday afternoon. Big and small, colorful, low-riders, sleek, quick, they kept coming, in groups of three, four or five or more, headed toward Higgens Point, the designated gathering point for the car meet, before Gov. Brad Little’s stay-home order last week.

Yesterdays: Aluminum Co. drills a new well

A water well at the Anaconda Aluminum Co. site hit water in gravel between 94 and 108 feet under the surface.