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Idaho Panhandle
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The Idaho Panhandle is the northern region of the U.S. State of Idaho that encompasses the ten northernmost counties of Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone. The southern part of this region is sometimes referred to as North Central Idaho, with the rest as North Idaho. The panhandle is bordered by Washington state to the west, Montana to the east and British Columbia to the north.
Coeur d'Alene is the region's largest city. Other important cities include Lewiston, Moscow (home of the University of Idaho), Post Falls, Hayden, Sandpoint, and the smaller St. Maries and Bonners Ferry. The region has a land area of 54,422.49 km? (21,012.64 sq mi), or 25.39 percent of Idaho's land area; there is also 839.07 km? (323.95 sq mi) of water area. The estimated population of the Idaho Panhandle as of 2004 was 295,160, or slightly more than 21% of Idaho's estimated population of 1,393,262. The 2000 census number was 278,866 residents, or 21.55% of the state's population at the time.
The Panhandle region observes Pacific Time north of the western-flowing Salmon River in the southern part of Idaho County. The rest of the state observes Mountain Time, which begins at Riggins. The Idaho Panhandle is also the only panhandle of a United States which borders two other states and a foreign country (Canada).
Articles
Local News from Coeur d'Alene Press via Yahoo! News
Mar 20, 2010 3:25 am
An Indiana man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in California prison for the 1985 murder of a single mother in Anaheim.
Mar 20, 2010 3:24 am
Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno.
Mar 20, 2010 3:24 am
The Arizona Game and Fish Department has fired an employee based on results of an internal investigation into the capture and death of what was the only known wild jaguar in the U.S.
Mar 20, 2010 2:26 am
A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to stabbing a moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer during a screening of the film "Shutter Island."
Mar 20, 2010 2:25 am
A car has collided head-on with a school bus in central New Jersey, killing the car's driver and wounding three people, including two high school students.
Mar 20, 2010 2:25 am
A 31-year-old man who allegedly held his girlfriend against her will in a Utah apartment for three weeks has been charged.
Mar 20, 2010 2:24 am
A man died while skydiving in Florida after authorities say he had problems with his parachute.
Mar 20, 2010 1:24 am
A suburban police department left behind a roomful of evidence when it closed two years ago _ including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to the 2006 rape of a 13-year-old ...
Mar 20, 2010 12:25 am
Ann Heisenfelt Nyi Nyi Aung, right, a pro-democracy activist originally from Myanmar, who was freed Thursday, a month after a court sentenced him to three years in prison with hard labor, and his fian...
Mar 20, 2010 12:24 am
A Washington man accused of shooting his ex-wife to death during a counseling session at a Federal Way church has been charged with first-degree murder.
