Student holds raffle for foreign exchange trip
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Tanner Kohal has his sights set on Sweden. The 16 year-old Sandpoint High School junior is selling raffle tickets to help fund the expense of the Rotary Youth Exchange...
Category: News in Brief
No cause yet released in Cape Horn Fire
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The Cape Horn fire that scorched Lake Pend Oreille communities last year is seared into local memory. However, authorities still haven’t released the cause of the blaze. KXLY reports...
Accident leaves one Litehouse employee dead
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff A car accident last week left one employee of Litehouse Foods dead and another hospitalized. Katherine Stelzer, 61, died at the scene and Zualita L. Updike, 50, was transported...
Council approves downtown parking revisions
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff If there’s one persistent bugaboo in city policy, it’s downtown parking. With many conflicting interests at play from downtown business owners to employees to pedestrians and bicyclists, officials have...
Fireworks ban still in place for NF
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Sandpoint Ranger District would like to emphasize that all fireworks are prohibited in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest year-round. “There are campfires allowed” said Capt. Eric Morgan with...
Debris enters lake; boaters to use caution
By Ben Olson Reader Staff U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are advising boaters to watch for additional debris in Lake Pend Oreille after a breach in a drift yard facility allowed some logs...
Little to campaign for 2018 governor election
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The 2018 gubernatorial election is already shaping up with Lt. Gov. Brad Little filing his candidacy paperwork this week. As Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s second-in-command, Little is a...
Idaho sells Priest Lake properties
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff A lot sale in Priest Lake by the Idaho Department of Lands generated $18.9 million for the Idaho Public School Endowment with only one of 39 auctions contested. The...
The Kids Aren’t Alright:
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The babies were born without brains and no one knew why. Between 2010 and 2014, dozens of infants in three central Washington counties died of anencephaly, a typically rare...
Ford announces write-in sheriff campaign
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Despite a defeat in last month’s primary election, Terry Ford is hoping the second time might be the charm. The sheriff’s candidate announced this week he is running as...
