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The $1.3 billion tourism industry plays a vital part in Idaho's economy by providing over 41,600 direct jobs which generate almost $500 million in local, state, and federal tax revenues. [3] The Tourism Division hosts the Idaho Conference on Recreation and Tourism in early May each year.
The Idaho Department of Commerce tourism division has divided the state into these seven regions which are used in the table above: [72] Northern - Counties: Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, and Shoshone, North Central - Counties: Clearwater, Idaho, Latah, Lewis, and Nez Perce
At the federal level, north Idaho is within Idaho's 1st congressional district and represented by Russ Fulcher in the United States House of Representatives and the state of Idaho by Mike Crapo and James Risch in the United States Senate. [163] [164] Coeur d'Alene, like the state of Idaho as a whole, is known for its conservative politics. [165]
Post Falls is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the gateway city to Northern Idaho off Interstate 90, just west of Coeur d'Alene, and east of Spokane, Washington. The population was 38,485 at the 2020 census, [3] making it Idaho's ninth-largest city and the second largest city in North Idaho behind Coeur d’Alene.
Harrison is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. The population was 203 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] Harrison is located on the eastern shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene , immediately south of where the Coeur d'Alene River flows into the lake.
Riggins is a city in the western United States in Idaho County, Idaho.Nestled deep in a canyon at the confluence of the Salmon and Little Salmon rivers in west central Idaho, it is approximately 150 highway miles (240 km) north of Boise, and 120 highway miles (190 km) south-southeast of Lewiston.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued a statewide order that U.S. and state of Idaho flags are to be flown at half-staff after an Ada County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty.
The city has a climate typical of low-elevation areas in Idaho and eastern Washington. Orofino has a dry-summer continental climate (Köppen Dsb). Due to the warm summers, it nearly qualifies as a continental Mediterranean climate (Dsa). Idaho's all-time highest temperature of 118 °F or 47.8 °C was recorded at Orofino on July 28, 1934.