Post Falls News

U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick shared lunch in the cafeteria at Post Falls High School to get a taste of the reduced-priced food that is served to children and adults.

TV Today's 6 News Idaho Couple Charged with Leaving Baby in Car A Post Falls couple is charged with injury to a child.

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.

A Post Falls couple has been charged with misdemeanor injury to a child after police say they left their 5-month-old baby in a car during a trip to Wal-Mart. Mark Keinholz, 42, and Traci Jurasin, 35, were charged Wednesday.

The Post Falls Cancer Center building is under construction at the southwest corner of Mullan Avenue and Syringa Street, in Post Falls, for Coeur d'Alene-based Kootenai Health, the operator of Kootenai Medical Center.

Update: No on is on the scene when police arrive. 4:56 p.m. Capone's/Post Falls reports that five males are fighting in front of the pub.

The Idaho State Police have identified the 45-year-old California woman killed by a Union Pacific train at 9:57 last night at the Prairie Avenue crossing near Idaho Street in Post Falls.

Post Falls Police and Idaho State Police are investigating after a woman was hit and killed by train Monday night.

5:23 p.m. A large group of people have used cones to block an off-street of Dakota Avenue/Hayden and play street basketball.

4:45 p.m. Someone dropped a poodle out of a vehicle @ Wilbur & Pinegrove/Hayden. 4:37 p.m. Union Pacific reports that a train almost hit an e/b white Ford p/up w/crew cab that ran the signals on Highway 54/Athol. 4:23 p.m. A vehicle is fully engulfed in fire @ Highway 41 on-ramp to I-90. Fire is spreading.

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

11:39 a.m. Black pitbull keeps running onto county airport property, creating a hazard.

A sizable crowd at the State Line Stadium Speedway in Post Falls cheered in delight last Wednesday night as a battered, but game V-8 hulk spun off the track, then was rammed broadside by another car that was trying to avoid it, in the final lap of the Bump to Pass division finale.

From iRacing.com ASA Northwest Late Model Tour media: POST FALLS, IDAHO -- : Jay Sauls made up for a bad start to the season with a come from behind to win his first iRacing.com American Speed Association Northwest Late Model Tour feature in 2009.

5:28 p.m. R/P reports someone is stealing firewood from his father's property, off H95 @ Cougar Creek Bridge, south of CdA.

Craig Walker, left, and Mark Rhodes of Idaho Fish and Game carry a tranquilized black bear to a waiting trailer Thursday in White Pine Park in Post Falls.

A group of homeowners on the Spokane River want boaters to slow down. KREM.com no wake zone They also want the county to impose a no-wake zone on a one-mile stretch of the river from the old Greensferry Bridge to Ross Point.

Now the government has taken over General Motors. Hundreds of profitable auto dealerships are being closed down against their will, sending 100,000 more people to the unemployment lines.

A river rescue was the most dramatic of 460 Spokane Valley Fire Department responses in a two-week period that ended Wednesday night.

5:30 p.m. 2 jetskiers who have been warned and are not "police friendly" are driving about 15 mph through a no-wake zone off NIC beach.