By The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Jul. 4--BONNERS FERRY -- A thinning project to improve the vigor of old-growth trees on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest can continue after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed an earlier court decision halting the work.

By Kandis Carper, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Jan.

By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Dec. 20--The increasingly loud roar coming from the national forest of far northern Idaho isn't from a chain saw.

By Greg Lee, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Feb. 22--One wouldn't call the Bonners Ferry-Kellogg boys basketball rivalry friendly. But bitter isn't the apt description either. More like intense and healthy.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Authorities expressed skepticism Friday but continued to search for a van, hoping to find two children missing since the slayings earlier this week of their mother, brother and mother's boyfriend. Kootenai County sheriff's Capt.