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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 18, 2010 6:59 am
SPOKANE - The Big Horn Outdoor Adventure Show, held March 18-21 at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, is celebrating 50 years.
Mar 18, 2010 6:14 am
SHAWN GUST/Press Penny McCown, and fiance Scott Kalis, of Coeur d'Alene, talk about a Sunday drive in the Montana mountains that lead them to a man who had been stranded in his car for four days after...
Mar 18, 2010 5:15 am
Posted: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:18 pm | Updated: 10:10 pm, Wed Mar 17, 2010. Goodnight, John-Boy: Driven partly by job losses, more multigenerational families are choosing to live together as &quo...
Mar 18, 2010 5:14 am
Authorities rescued an injured pilot who was trapped for about eight hours in the wreckage of an experimental plane that crashed on an Indian reservation south of Phoenix.
Mar 18, 2010 4:15 am
Authorities say a 15-year-old girl was savagely beaten by a teenage boy while waiting for her bus outside a Florida middle school.
Mar 18, 2010 4:14 am
Prosecutors say a member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been found guilty of sexual assault of a child.
Mar 18, 2010 4:14 am
Police in Washington state say a man who accompanied his wife to a church for a counseling session shot the woman several times at the church, killing her.
Mar 18, 2010 1:15 am
A defense lawyer says a Harvard Law School graduate accused of setting a fire at a New York City chapel that temporarily housed the remains of Sept. 11 victims was so drunk he barely remembers being t...
Mar 18, 2010 1:15 am
The U.S. Marine Corps' investigation of the February death of an Indiana Marine in Afghanistan concludes that he was fatally shot when an Afghan security contractor fired shots at a group of Marines.
Mar 18, 2010 1:15 am
A black former college professor who reported finding a noose on her New York City office door has lost one of her three lawsuits surrounding plagiarism accusations that got her fired.
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