Kootenai County News

Adela Sussman reported Saturday the $477 theft of four studded snow tires and the $20 damage to the latch on a storage unit at her residence on the 4600 block of W. Fairway Drive.

COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho - The track wasn't totally clear for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Thursday night, when the company faced its 60-month compliance review for its refueling depot in Hauser.

Kootenai Electric Officials say a problem with a transmission line has left about 3,500 Kootenai Electric customers in Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene without power.

COEUR D'ALENE -- Some drivers in Idaho had trouble trying to renew their licenses or vehicle tabs at any Division of Motor Vehicles office Thursday morning.

A Coeur d'Alene pharmacy employee tackled a masked armed robber and held him for police Wednesday night.

Both Coeur d'Alene Police and Kootenai County Sheriff deputies are investigating a report of a robbery inside the Shopko at 217 W. Ironwood in Coeur d'Alene. KXLY has a crew headed to the scene.

Who is it that waters our downtown trees, keeps the Interstate 90 exit ramps clean, provides those wonderful security ambassadors and the clean team, and plants the downtown flowers? The city of Spokane? Not directly.

COEURE D'ALENE, Idaho - Kootenai County Sheriffs reported the arrest of two robbers Sunday evening in the Dalton Gardens area, just north of Coeur d'Alene. Justin R. Booth, 29 of Coeur d'Alene has been booked into the Kootenai County Jail on one charge each of Robbery, Grand Theft and Eluding.

More Info: The track wasn't totally clear for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Thursday night, when the company faced its 60-month compliance review for its refueling depot in Hauser.

A Spirit Lake woman who wandered off the trail while hiking on Chilco Mountain has been found safe after a cold night in the wilderness.

Kootenai County will continue to ship inmates to other jails - to the tune of about $52 million over the next decade - following the failure Tuesday of two ballot measures that would have expanded the county jail.

The unemployment rate in October rose to 8.9 percent in Idaho and 11.1 percent in Kootenai County.

The unemployment rate in October rose to 8.9 percent in Idaho and 11.1 percent in Kootenai County.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho. - Three family members have been charged with hate crimes in connection with a confrontation outside a Coeur d'Alene home.

Three men were indicted Thursday by a Kootenai County grand jury on charges of malicious harassment under the state's hate crime law after allegedly threatening a Hispanic family in Coeur d'Alene in August.

City Clerk Susan Weathers reports that the turnout within Kootenai County for the jail measure and the various city elections was 22.76% for all 78 precincts.

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.

It's election day in cities and towns all across Idaho. Races to be decided by voters today are local contests.

COEUR D'ALENE -- In North Idaho voters are being asked to expand the Kootenai County jail for the third time.

COEUR D'ALENE--Police in Coeur d'Alene are looking for suspects in two robberies ten minutes apart from each other late Thursday night.