A plan to build an asphalt plant in north Idaho is raising some familiar concerns about health and public safety from residents living near the proposed site.

Coeur d'Alene Paving is seeking permission to rezone 116 acres west of Post Falls as a potential site to relocate its asphalt batch plant.

The Coeur d'Alene Press reports the Kootenai County Commission is sch

All fire agencies in Kootenai County including Idaho Department of Lands are no longer issuing new burn permits due to recent dry weather conditions. They're waiting for sufficient and continuing wet weather in the area before they continue issuing permits. Dangerous fire conditions in the area merited the fire danger to increase to high on August 1st.

Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation area has announced that 12,766 bicyclists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world rode the Route of the Hiawatha in July—a new record and a 12.7 percent increase over the same month last year.