Wallace News

Seattle-based author Timothy Egan seems to have a way with disaster. In his last book - A the widely acclaimed 2006 National Book Award winner "The Worst Hard Time" - Egan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, deftly depicted the darkest reaches of the Great American Dust Bowl, through characters brought to life amidst a ...

TOPICS Conservatives like Rudy Giuliani can change their views in a blink of an eye and act like WATB in the process.

March 9th 1922- November 3rd 2009. Ted, 87, was born on a ranch near Fairview, Mont., on March 9, 1922, to Vern and Edith Brockway.

It's not every day someone in Idaho wins a quarter of a million dollars on an Idaho Lottery Scratch Game.

Football player, homecoming queen: 'This is the most fun I've had during a sports season' WALLACE, Idaho - For 17 years, Molly McGee watched her friends and family play football.

Halloween is a chance to forget all your troubles and get spooked out. But some people don't need a holiday.

Some jobs require special endurance. Some jobs are just plain creepy. In this week before Halloween, our correspondents have been finding the spookiest jobs in the Northwest.

This summer, the country was riveted by images of wildfires burning the southern California hills.

Old-timers in the West still talk about the Big Burn of 1910, a ravenous firestorm that transformed 3.2 million acres of public and private forests in Idaho and Montana into a scorched earth moonscape in around two days.

When fire came over the mountain THE BIG BURN By Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 352 pages.

Wallace, Idaho is among the coolest small towns in America. The magazine Budget Travel touts Wallace's mining history and some of the salacious activities that went along with it.

Wallace, Idaho is among the coolest small towns in America. Image courtesy: www.google.com The magazine Budget Travel touts Wallace's mining history and some of the salacious activities that went along with it.

If you want to strike it rich, why not press your luck and try to win your very own gold mine in Murray, Idaho? When you take the Sierra Silver Mine tour you can learn a lot about the Silver Valley's rich mining history.

Driving along Highway 2 in the Okanogan Highlands. Washington State. Heading east toward Spokane.

Fire season may be off to a slow start which is giving fire prevention crews in Shoshone County more time to reduce fire dangers around homes and properties thanks to a federally-funded county program.

Money boxes and timers sit in the waiting room at the Oasis Bordello Museum in Wallace.

When the 2010 Winter Olympics open in Vancouver, B.C., next February, a new $4 million communications center at Bellingham International Airport 45 miles south will be a key site for counterterrorism and security operations.

2. was born in Wallace. She was known as "Judy" until she went to Hollywood at age 16 and changed her name to Lana, becoming one of the era's most famous and glamorous movie stars.

Aug. 2, Schweitzer Mountain Resort, near Sandpoint, Idaho. www.schweitzer.com . Live music, huckleberry hikes, a huckleberry breakfast, and pie eating contest.

Is Jacket Copy still doing its Postmodernism Month ? Murray Jay Siskind, who steals his scenes in DeLillo's White Noise and the pseudonymous Amazons , reviewed DFW's Oblivion in Modernism/Modernity in 2004.