Kootenai News

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.

No more elections talk. No more election TV ads. No more phone calls for different candidates.

The Homeland Security Department has entered in to agreements with four Native American tribes to produce enhanced identification cards approved for use at U.S. border crossings.

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: Sara Kuban, 202-282-8010 Pete Delgado, Tohono O'odham Nation: 520-383-2028 The Department of Homeland Security and the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona today formalized an agreement to develop a Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative -compliant Enhanced Tribal Card - signed by U.S. Customs ...

Authorities are looking for help in identifying a man they say stepped in front of a train in Post Falls, Idaho Friday morning.

Approximately 1,500 Kootenai Electric members around Plummer and Harrison are experiencing a power outage after an Avista transmission line went down around 9:45 a.m. Sunday.

The 7th Annual Idaho Indian Education Summit comes to Lewiston this week. Education leaders from Coeur D' Alene, Shoshone, Kootenai, and Nez Perce Tribes met at the Red Lion Thursday to focus on a student group that's falling behind.

The Seneca Nation of Indians is poised to be just the third tribe to agree to work with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on an enhanced tribal card that can be used as part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.

Moscow Police say a University of Idaho student was injured when she fell from a fraternity house third-floor window early Thursday morning.

The structure was relocated to the current site in 1955, then expanded with the addition of a gracious living room and private upper master suite.

A University of Idaho student was listed in critical condition Monday after he fell from a window or the roof of a fraternity Saturday morning.

A tornado warning for Pend Oreille County and Bonner County Tuesday expired at 4:15 p.m. with no tornado spotted.

The family of an 8-year-old autistic girl who was arrested at school wants the school district and county to pay more than $500,000 in damages.

New Idaho programs to combat quagga and zebra mussels will be explained at two public meetings Wednesday in North Idaho.

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office says a 10-year-old boy in northern Idaho lost control of an all-terrain vehicle and crashed into a power pole, seriously injuring himself and his 11-year-old passenger.

A 30-year-old former bookkeeper for a northern Idaho excavation firm must spend 30 days behind bars and pay $46,000 in restitution for embezzling thousands from her employer.

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.

They're paid to guard and care for inmates. But some Kootenai County Jail employees saw the facility as their personal drug store, taking advantage of such lax controls over inmate medications that the Idaho State Police would eventually launch a yearlong investigation involving hidden cameras, lie detectors and interviews with more than a dozen ...

Panco Construction Inc., of Spokane, has been awarded a nearly $5 million contract to expand two elementary schools near Sandpoint, Idaho, for the Lake Pend Oreille School District.

The Blackfeet Tribe is one of a group of tribes developing enhanced tribal identification cards to get in line with the new Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.