Kootenai County News

The unemployment rate in October rose to 8.9 percent in Idaho and 11.1 percent in Kootenai County.

The unemployment rate in October rose to 8.9 percent in Idaho and 11.1 percent in Kootenai County.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho. - Three family members have been charged with hate crimes in connection with a confrontation outside a Coeur d'Alene home.

Three men were indicted Thursday by a Kootenai County grand jury on charges of malicious harassment under the state's hate crime law after allegedly threatening a Hispanic family in Coeur d'Alene in August.

City Clerk Susan Weathers reports that the turnout within Kootenai County for the jail measure and the various city elections was 22.76% for all 78 precincts.

In Kootenai County in northern Idaho, a $57 million bond and half-cent sales tax to expand the county's jail fell short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to pass.

It's election day in cities and towns all across Idaho. Races to be decided by voters today are local contests.

COEUR D'ALENE -- In North Idaho voters are being asked to expand the Kootenai County jail for the third time.

COEUR D'ALENE--Police in Coeur d'Alene are looking for suspects in two robberies ten minutes apart from each other late Thursday night.

College, saying they are standing up for the voters of Kootenai County . Quoth Mary: "Our rights have been circumvented with the shell game used by NIC and the NIC Foundation.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's office is looking for a suspect who attempted to rob a pharmacy in Hayden Tuesday night.

Authorities say they have arrested a Rathdrum woman suspected of embezzling more than $450,000 from a medical clinic in Post Falls.

"I'm a gun-toting Democrat," offered George, who serves as chair of the Kootenai County Democratic Party and has a concealed-weapon permit, which allows him to carry the .357 Magnum he bought for personal protection when he sold real estate in rural areas/ Jacob Livingston , SR Handle.

Beginning on Monday health officials in Spokane and Kootenai County began administering the swine flu vaccine to the community.

A series of robberies in the Inland Northwest continued over the weekend with three holdups in three days in the Coeur d'Alene area.

Authorities are investigating three armed robberies in three days in the Coeur da Alene area, and two of the holdups may be related, said Coeur da Alene Police Sgt.

Authorities are investigating a train versus pedestrian accident in Post Falls that happened early Friday morning, just before five.

Health officials on both sides of the stateline confirm that four area residents - three in Spokane County and one in Kootenai County - have died from the swine flu within the last week.

Richard Williams reported Tuesday the $310 theft of stereo equipment from his 1967 Jeep Wagoneer parked on the 1700 block of East Lakeside Avenue.

Shelly Amos, WIC coordinator for Panhandle Health District, talks about the program at Super 1 Foods in Hayden on Thursday.