Kootenai County News

Coeur d'Alene mayoral candidate Josh Arnold said his candidacy is not at odds with his views about the constitutional authority of a Kootenai County court where, several months ago, he reportedly got into a scuffle that broke a bailiff's elbow.

A 28-year-old Post Falls woman faces charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy that she was hired to watch in August 2007.

An Idaho woman face charges that she had sex with a 14-year-old boy that she was hired to watch in August 2007.

A Tekoa teen was killed and a Worley youth is in critical condition after they were thrown from a vehicle that went off the road and rolled several times early Tuesday in southern Kootenai County.

Ben Wolfinger says a man who is presumed drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene reportedly jumped from the boat Monday and refused assistance.

A 28-year-old Post Falls woman has been arrested following a seven-month investigation into an alleged sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy she was hired to baby-sit. Summer Kelli Ashle Nelson was being held Monday in Kootenai County Jail on four counts of lewd conduct with a minor, according to jail records.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's marine deputies say a man severed his foot in a collision between a powerboat and a personal watercraft on Lower Twin Lakes.

Gerard "Gerry" Hoffman. The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office is looking for a Post Falls High School senior who left home Monday and hasn't returned.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Marine Deputies, the Post Falls Police Department and medical personnel responded to the area of Black Bay on the Spokane River drowning call around 2 p.m. Friday.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department will conduct an impaired-driving emphasis patrol from today until July 12.

Trains struck two people in Idaho on Monday. One is dead, and the other is in critical condition at Kootenai County Medical Center.

At the Kootenai County Farmers Market in downtown Coeur d'Alene, Ashley Fotsch, 16, left, and Maddy Barnes by some gourmet artisan bread from Paul Lash of Pasty Depot this afternoon.

A federal judge this week dismissed parts of a multimillion-dollar wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Benites Sichiro against Spokane County and its employees.

Kootenai County Sheriffa s deputies removed an explosive device from a home near Harrison after it exploded, damaging the mailbox.

Three teenagers are in custody in Kootenai County in connection with an armed robbery at a WinCo grocery store in North Spokane and in connection with a home burglary on 32nd Ave.

About 1,300 Kootenai Electric Cooperative members in Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls are without power, the company has announced.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department is looking for a missing woman. Kootenai County Sheriff's Dept.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho. - Documents detailing a recently completed criminal probe that led to the firing of three employees at the Kootenai County Jail and disciplinary measures for eight other workers reveal lax controls over inmate medications.

Deputies from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department Recreation Safety Section and personnel from the Northern Lakes Fire Department responded to the Hayden Lake Marina on Hayden Lake for an injury Personal Watercraft collision that occurred around 12:45 Sunday afternoon.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department is reporting that a 14-year-old juvenile female from Coeur d' Alene who was involved in a Personal Watercraft collision has died as a result of the injuries she sustained.