Hayden Lake News

Deedie Beard talks about her tenure at the Kootenai County elections office, where she has worked for 28 years.

9:29 a.m. Suspicious male reported @ Kathleen & Screiber/CdA. 8:54 a.m. Although someone is watching a slash burn @ 2990 Nettleton Gulch, neighbor is worried that flames are 20 to 30 feet high and fire could get out of control.

They were wrong. A new entity calling itself Aryan Nations recently distributed fliers in the area, saying it was recruiting members to create a "world headquarters" in Hayden Lake.

Among these bustling burgs? St. George, Utah; Forsyth County, Georgia; and Coeur d'Alene. Benjamin spent four months in a Hayden Lake cabin in 2007 - throwing dinner parties, chatting with Mayor Sandi Bloem and retired LAPD officers and attending a white separatist conference in Sandpoint.

10:41 a.m. Motorist reports that a Chevy Suburban is weaving across both lanes of e/b I-90 traffic @ Spokane Street exit/Post Falls.

Few people have heard of Hayden or Hayden Lake, Idaho, but you'd be surprised how many tourists travel to this area of the Pacific Northwest for winter sports and the Iron Man competitions.

Spokane County Interstate Fair attendance rebounded Friday through closing day Sunday after an apparent drop in gate revenue on Thursday, the day a mental patient who'd killed a woman walked away from a field trip to the fair.

11:27 a.m. A 51YO woman has dislocated a hip in a fall @ Chukar Loop & Idaline/Post Falls.

Residents of a Hayden subdivision are asking the state for a loan of more than $1 million so they can fix their faulty water system.

Hayden Lake resident Alicia Hopkins says she first started noticing bear scat in her yard.

4:41 p.m. A vehicle has hit a small child on a bike @ Atlas & Prairie, blocking the i/s. The child was up and walking, but appears to be injured.

Wolf hunting will begin in the Northern Rockies under a cloud of uncertainty, as a federal judge weighs a request by environmental and animal welfare groups to stop the predators from being killed.

A white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum appeared in court Wednesday in a wheelchair, the first time he has been seen publicly since the June shooting.James von Brunn, 89, had been hospitalized since the June 10 shooting after reportedly being shot in the face by other guards.

University of Idaho students are researching the water quality at Hayden Lake. David Newcombe, assistant professor of environmental science at the university's Kootenai County Extension, says its an educational exercise that also provides useful data.

" There's no slowing down Mary Cordes of Hayden Lake, Idaho. The 85-year-old recently came out of retirement only two years after ending her life-long career.

11:28 a.m. Kootenai Electric Cooperative has restored power to about 1,600 residents in the Post Falls/Hauser Lake area was recently restored.

Kootenai County Sheriff's Department deputies and Dive Team Members responded to the area of E. Hayden Lake Road near Tobler's Marina when a resident in the area heard a vehicle crash into the water near the Marina around 1:30 Saturday morning.

Kootenai County Sheriff's Department deputies and Dive Team Members responded to the area of E. Hayden Lake Road near Tobler's Marina when a resident in the area heard a vehicle crash into the water near the Marina around 1:30 Saturday morning.

An eastern Idaho woman is the new state record holder for catching a rainbow trout.

HAYDEN LAKE, Idaho - The house where Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler lived has been demolished.