Coeur d'Alene News

Jeff Ward's feeble attempt to explain what went wrong with the Coeur d'Alene School Board election and the Kootenai Health Board of Director election is eerily similar to Karl Rove's exasperation after President Obama was re-elected. Ward was paid a nice chunk of money by the candidates and their supporters to win.

A northern Idaho nurse is suing Kootenai Medical Center, saying she was fired last year in an act of retaliation against her for complaining about a doctor's erratic behavior.

Fans of JJ Grey's smoky swamp-funk blues don't have to make the trek to the Gorge this Memorial Day weekend to see it live.

Creston Days Community celebration includes breakfast, Butte or Bust Run, parade and lunch in Creston Park.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A major intersection in downtown Coeur d'Alene will be closed to traffic for about three weeks beginning Monday night for a stormwater construction project.

Following is a portion of the letter that Post Falls Trustee Julie Hunt dropped off at the Coeur d'Alene office of the Spokesman-Review Wednesday re: a letter circulated in the closing days of the Post Falls School Board election, under Sen.

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.

Coeur d'Alene residents who have watched with growing concern as archconservatives have stolen one local government seat after another should celebrate today.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Late one afternoon last week, he heard what he thought were gunshots on his rural property near Coeur d'Alene. Martin, 87, drove around back to investigate and discovered someone had been smashing the windows, headlights and taillights out of his classic cars.

On her Facebook wall, Coeur d'Alene Trustee-elect Christa Hazel alerts her FFs of the anti-bullying film that will be shown at the Kroc Center tonight: " Tonight at the Kroc Center, the CdA SD Anti-bully Task Force will be showing the documentary, Submit, and will hold a Q&A discussion afterwards.

Police in northern Idaho say vandals caused about $54,000 in damage by smashing windows in 26 classic cars in a collector's wooded backyard.

Yesterday was Election Day across the state, with elections for an array of school district and special district races.

Kootenai County Reagan Republicans were shocked when the early results of the non-partisan races trickled in Tuesday night.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Suspicious bottles found Tuesday morning in a Coeur d'Alene parking lot were intended to be an explosive, police say.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Idaho remains stuck near the bottom of public education funding, ranking second to last of all states in per-student spending for a third straight year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Monday.

Lake City High School students watch as senior Jacob Wilkinson is transported to an ambulance during a mock DUI accident near the school in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho this morning.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho-- Police determined that two suspicious devices found in Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday were intended to be explosives.

The Idaho Fish & Game Commission, at its meeting late last week in Coeur d'Alene, voted to support the removal of grizzly bears in Idaho from the federal list of threatened and endangered species, saying the bears have recovered sufficiently and now are starting to move into areas where there are increasing conflicts with humans.

That Mary Souza of OpenCDA.com was told by the Coeur d'Alene School District to remove the district logo from her recent newsletter castigating Balance North Idaho for - and I quote Mary - sending out an emailing "filled with twisted, manipulative information that amounts to nothing but campaign trickery." At the top of her newsletter, entitled ... (more)

State Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, poked his nose into the Post Falls School Board races at the last moment by authoring a letter in favor of two challengers to the incumbents.