A weekend jazz festival that ended up shuttering two Idaho school districts over fears of the coronavirus didn’t expose North Idaho students to the same risks, area officials said Monday.
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COEUR d’ALENE — The two black-and-gray birds waited carefully above the parking lot at Higgens Point late Thursday morning, their sharp talons ready to touch ground if they needed to land, their eyes swiveling around, mindful of nearby fellow fliers. They hovered gently up and down in the sky before …
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Conservative voters converged on North Idaho College Tuesday night to hear from their state’s Republican leadership and their own representatives during the last stretch of the Idaho House Republican Caucus town hall series.
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Idaho State House Republican leadership and members of the House GOP Caucus from North Idaho will hold a town hall at North Idaho College tonight, holding the eighth town hall meeting as the convoy careens through the state to gather public input before its next legislative session.
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Despite a late push by concerned residents who spoke of midnight fears they’d lose both property and livelihood, the Coeur d’Alene City Council voted to approve a new Health Corridor urban renewal district designed to revitalize central Coeur d’Alene over the next 20 years.
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COEUR d’ALENE — Coeur d’Alene Arts Commission meetings typically don’t warrant a police presence, but the past 18 days of controversy embroiling the Arts Commission have been anything but typical.
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With CBS film crews measuring light in the Coeur d’Alene Public Library’s downstairs children’s room and a cameraman adjusting his focus, David Townsend stood beside a wood bench and caught his breath, a ridiculously oversized book by his side.
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COEUR d’ALENE — As a Nov. 16 crowd of local lookie-loos watched a semi truck haul the J.C. White House to its new home near the base of Tubbs Hill, a team of local historians swapped their curiosity caps for their Indiana Jones fedoras.
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Without a heckle, flung fruit or vocal dissenter in attendance, Rick Reilly regaled a spilled-over Coeur d’Alene crowd Thursday, turning the crosshairs of a local trickster into an opportunity to shed a light on a local case of censorship, tell his personal stories of a cheating president and promote his …
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A contentious standoff developed Tuesday night over a now-toppled art piece that featured the hammer and sickle, sparking public outrage and thrusting forward warnings of government censorship.
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COEUR d’ALENE — The Soviet Union cast its reign of Communism across the globe for almost 75 years. Its iconic hammer and sickle could only survive the Coeur d’Alene spotlight for a few days.
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COEUR d’ALENE — When Idaho Gov. Brad Little arrived in a giant banquet room of the Coeur d’Alene Resort on Thursday for an address to the area’s business community, he said he couldn’t help but gush at North Idaho’s strategies for diversifying its economy.
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U.S. Rep Russ Fulcher, North Idaho’s delegate to Congress, expressed pride for his role as part of a cadre of conservative lawmakers who stormed a deposition Wednesday at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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Health care workers, first responders and a concerned public joined together Thursday for a daylong symposium to address North Idaho’s staggering opioid crisis.
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Executives at the North Idaho Housing Coalition expressed bittersweet relief this week after a Kootenai County judge handed down an unexpected decision that concludes a two-year black hole in the organization’s history.
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In an effort to connect with Idahoans outside the Boise beltway, Gov. Brad Little brought his cabinet to Rathdrum on Thursday as part of his “Capital For A Day” initiative, venturing into Idaho’s small towns to speak and listen to public concerns regarding any and all issues.
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COEUR d’ALENE — A decision to toss a complaint from a local political organizer has given the green light to a more open conversation about Idaho’s initiative process.
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One of the most important cannabis opponents in the U.S. Senate also happened to be one of the few voices to move the needle Tuesday toward normalizing relations between the cannabis industry and banks.
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With two wooden logs beneath his feet and dust kicking in his wake, Mike Nagel raised his brown leather cowboy hat into the air and gave the Friday crowd a cheer as a pair of mighty draft horses — blond manes flowing behind — carried him around the dirt track …
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Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher is pushing for the passage of the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2019, this year’s iteration of a bill that would provide for, among other things, clearing trees in the name of wildfire prevention.
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I sit in a Coeur d’Alene Starbucks and wait for an answer from these two men: one a 36-year-old from Rathdrum, the other 29 from just south of Athol, both physically fit, both with high and trim haircuts, both dressed in matching fatigue pants and combat boots. They stumble a …
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