By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Reasons not to support the merger between Avista Utilities and Canada-based Hydro One dominated the Idaho Public Utility Commission’s public hearing Wednesday evening. PUC commissioners Paul Kjellander and Eric...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff A Newport apartment complex caught fire on Friday afternoon and was extinguished after several hours of suppression by volunteer firefighters from a half dozen different agencies. Newport volunteer fire...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Although Tina Friedman has traveled to 34 countries and immersed herself in dozens of distinct cultures, nothing quite prepared her for India. The people she met, the experiences she...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Coyotes at Sandpoint City Beach? Well, sort of. Sandpoint Parks and Recreation is trying out a new goose deterrent system with the placement of several coyote decoys at the...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Staff My seventh-grade daughter says her principal is very well loved and greets everyone by their first name (even though the Sandpoint Middle School population is at full capacity). A...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The crossbow: one part gun, one part bow, 10 parts awesome. So good at maths. When you think of a crossbow, you probably imagine a soldier from the Middle...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist You’re in the jungle. Light is flickering through the canopy of leaves, painting colorful streaks across the dirt floor. You turn your neck to the left and see a...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Change isn’t easy. And it’s made even harder after almost 50 years of consistency. The change, in this case, is the relocation of the Pend Oreille Arts Council Arts...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney Barry McHugh announced this week that Sandpoint Police officers Michael Hutter and Eric Clark used appropriate force in a March shooting. In a press conference...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s just something about the old school way of doing business that appeals to Dr. Nate Harrell and Jen Heller. Harrell recently announced that Pend Oreille Vision Care, his...
