Kootenai County News

COEUR d'ALENE - Kootenai County Commissioners are talking with a Washington state recycling company about building a regional facility in northern Idaho that might use inmate labor.

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COEUR D'ALENE -- Voters in Kootenai County will once again decide if the county jail should be expanded to relieve overcrowding.

The families of two men killed in a fireworks explosion at the Coeur d'Alene Casino in 2006 have accused the Coeur d'Alene Tribe and Casino and several companies of negligence.

Kootenai County voters may decide in November whether to approve a nearly $147 million jail expansion that includes improvements to the entire Sheriff's Department complex and 911 center.

Witnesses and employees say an 8-year old boy is safe after a near-drowning incident at the Triple Play indoor amusement center Thursday afternoon.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Kootenai County Jail officials say a prisoner is not being given kosher food because he has failed to provide information to prove he is Jewish.

Coeur d'Alene's dream of an education corridor is on hold as the state postponed until September a $1.3 million lease guaranteeing the University of Idaho's presence in North Idaho for at least 99 years.

Kootenai County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 27-year old man who tried to steal about $90 of gas from a Zip Trip Friday afternoon, dragging an employee about 20 feet and crashing his jeep into another car ...

Duncan asks judge for permission to represent himself Updated: BOISE, Idaho - Joseph Edward Duncan III has asked a federal judge to allow him to act as his own attorney during his death sentencing hearing.

Kaye, Pat and Christian Frisbie talk about the loss of their 10-year-old son/brother Sawyer Frisbie, 10, in a car accident two weeks ago Friday, June 6, 2008 at a motel in Coeur d'Alene. A drunk driver ran a ...

A Kingston man died Sunday after he failed to negotiate a curve and rolled his truck down the bankment in the Curran Saddle area in Idaho.

A 20-year-old Rathdrum man was arrested early Monday for allegedly entering a Rathdrum home and stabbing a 17-year-old boy during an apparent confrontation.

RICK THOMAS/Press file The Car d'Lane show downtown on Father's Day will be accompanied by a smaller show, plus a swap meet and other events in Hayden the same weekend.

Police arrested a man who they say tried to enter a home at the 7100 block of Manchester Street.

Coeur will keep Nevada mine Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. said Thursday it has decided to retain ownership of its Rochester silver and gold mine in Nevada after reviewing strategic alternatives for the mine.

Possibility raised for joint high school facility on site COEUR d'ALENE -- A group is working to keep the idea of a professional-technical education complex on the Rathdrum Prairie from falling by the wayside ...

Authorities have captured a North Idaho inmate who ran away from his jailors early Wednesday morning.

Early polling results show only about 15 percent of Idaho's registered voters showed up for the primary election in what could be the lowest recorded turnout in a state primary contest since the 1970s.

A minimum custody inmate has escaped from South Idaho Correctional Institution, officials said Monday.