Coeur d'Alene News

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- The 3rd street boat launch is set to close June 1st and boaters are unsure where they will be able launch their boats.

Ginno Construction Inc. of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho was awarded the Sorensen Magnet School Remodel and Additions general construction project for $3,368,700 which is a base bid of $3,260,000 plus alternate bids 2 through 6 for $108,700. The Coeur d'Alene School District Board of Trustees awarded the project to Ginno during a special board meeting held ... (more)

After working a series of jobs that dried up, David Munson, 37, of Coeur d'Alene, returned to school to get his GED.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Holly Lahti of Rathdrum, Idaho, won one of the biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history, and then seemed to disappear off the face of the earth.

The city of Coeur d'Alene is asking Time Warner Cable subscribers for feedback on CdA-TV Channel 19, the City's government and public education channel.

Here's yet another indication that summer's on the way in viewtiful Coeur d'Alene: Chris Guggemos of Handshake Productions has released his summer lineup for City Park, beginning Sunday, June 30.

Tickets are now on sale for Christian Youth Theater - North Idaho's spring musical, Great American Tall Tales.

As you know, I'm not a fan of the attempt by the Reagan Republicans to insert their endorsees into nonpartisan offices in Coeur d'Alene under the name "Republican." I like RR founders Ron Lahr and Jeff Ward.

The Coeur d'Alene City Council has scheduled a workshop to discuss the transfer of Lake Coeur d'Alene Driver from the Idaho Department of Transportation to the city.

An Idaho 18-year-old faces reckless driving, assault and other charges after his SUV left Highway 97 north of Madras and rolled at least once early Wednesday, injuring him and two passengers, one seriously, Oregon State Police reported.

This spring, Superintendent Hazel Bauman and the Coeur d'Alene School Board of Trustees convened an anti-bullying task force to bring more attention and action to the school district's efforts to reduce bullying in our schools.

Two North Idaho conservation groups, Friends of the Clearwater and the Kootenai Environmental Alliance, are questioning the U.S. Coast Guard's turnabout on permits for the upcoming "Race the Joe" jet boat race on the St.

Officials, neighbors and anyone with an interest in public space is being asked to dust off an old idea, and start brainstorming - again.

COEUR d'ALENE -- Deputies are seizing property from the large home of a former business owner accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a customer, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Dept.

Kerri Thoreson, of course, is the queen of the local birthday beat, posting acknowledgements of birthday boys and girls in her Coeur d'Alene Press Main Street column year round.

News has just emerged in the last handful of minutes that Chase Blakley , the highly-touted tight end out of Coeur d'Alene High School in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho has given his verbal commitment to play football at the University of Washington.

In a roundup of Kootenai Hospital Board candidates by the Jeff Selle/Coeur d'Alene Press, candidate Jim Pierce makes the following statement: im Pierce is no stranger to partisan politics, but he also knows when to set that aside.

A north Idaho man has been ordered to spend 42 months in a federal prison and pay nearly $1.4 million in restitution for failing to pay federal income taxes.

Rain thinned out the crowds along the Coeur d'Alene waterfront during the noon hour today, as sports scribe Greg Lee and I made our regular three-mile jaunt.

Weekend Poll: 137 of 215 respondents said they didn't think Coeur d'Alene was a "college town"? Another 57 of 215 respondents said it wasn't a college town but it's getting there.