VACCINES: Benefit Idaho and the world

Having polio as a child, I know firsthand the importance of vaccines. Not many Americans have to think about deadly diseases daily. Often, we don’t even hear about dangerous disease outbreaks, thanks to CDC’s rapid international response efforts. But just …

An Idaho Neighbor Brings an End to Switching Clocks Twice a Year

They don’t win many medals anymore, but our friends in the 51st state sometimes still have a good idea.  British Columbia, which is comprised of the Vancouver metro and then a lot of territory where normal people live, is enshrining Daylight Saving Time as …

ICE Arrests Illegal Alien in Idaho for Allegedly Trafficking Children Into State as Laborers

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s parent agency may be in a state of upheaval, but that hasn’t stopped ICE agents from doing their job. While the Department of Homeland Security prepares for a new head honcho, ICE is still at work bringing some of the …

OPINION: Something for Idaho’s Sen. Risch to worry about

There have been no Trump defense officials, diplomats or national security experts hauled before the Senate to publicly explain the war’s rationale — which keeps shifting from stopping a nuclear weapons program that was supposedly “obliterated” last summer …

Kendrick falls to Lakeside in Idaho Class 2A state title game

NAMPA — The No. 1 seed Kendrick Tigers fell to the No. 2 seed Lakeside Knights of Plummer 60-47 in the Idaho Class 2A state tournament championship Saturday at the Ford Idaho Center. The Knights controlled the game after taking the lead in the second …

Idaho state basketball championship results

Lakeside upsets Kendrick in Idaho Class 2A state final

What Kendrick has built Just last season, the Tigers won the triple crown with state championships in boys basketball, baseball and football. Kendrick has a target on its back and the players know it. Roetcisoender said it feels nice to win but also to …

Kendrick advances to Idaho Class 2A state championship

Moving on to the state championship Kendrick advanced to play No. 2 seed Lakeside in the Idaho Class 2A state championship at 10:30 a.m. Pacific today at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa. Kirkland said that this team is familiar with tournaments like this …

FAST FIVE Kristi Rietze: Strengthening connections in North Idaho

Meet Kristi Jacobson Rietze, a fifth-generation Coeur d’Alene resident whose family roots stretch back to the 1890s. Kristi's great-great-grandfather, George Groves, known locally as the “Kid Engineer,” piloted steamboats across Lake Coeur d’Alene, …

Short season, big harvests: The best crops for North Idaho

Let’s face it, gardening here can be tough. We’ve had snow on Mother’s Day, and then, some years, temperatures have hit near 100 degrees. June is often wet and cold, which can cause warm-season crops (and gardeners) to give up prematurely. Our summers are …