By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners moved to adopt the FY2021 budget following Aug. 24 public hearings that featured little to no public input. The county’s general budget for the coming year...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Sandpoint City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting Aug. 26 to advance a land swap on Bridge Street that staff argued would give a larger footprint to...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The original suit surrounding The Festival at Sandpoint’s weapons ban saw some action Aug. 25, as counsel for both Bonner County and the city of Sandpoint presented oral arguments...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Six months into the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the havoc wrought by the novel coronavirus on everyday life rose into stark relief during the extraordinary session of the Idaho Legislature,...
By Reader Staff Reclaim Idaho has since June been locked in a high-stakes legal battle with Idaho Gov. Brad Little and Secretary of State Lawerence Denney over whether the grassroots organization can collect signatures...
By Reader Staff A federal judge placed a preliminary injunction Aug. 17 on a new Idaho law banning transgender female athletes from participating on publically funded sports teams. Under HB 500, female athletes wanting...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff A fatal shooting incident in south-central Idaho involving an off-duty officer on Aug. 1 has ties to the state’s panhandle. In a statement Aug. 13, the Custer County Sheriff’s...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The sum of budgeted expenditures between the FY2020 and FY2021 Bonner County budgets are remaining largely the same — $64.2 million and $64 million, respectively — as the county...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A keel-laying ceremony has been scheduled for the U.S. Navy’s newest and most advanced nuclear attack submarine, which will bear the name USS Idaho (SSN-799). General Dynamics Electric Boat...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Idaho Gov. Brad Little played coy with callers at an AARP Idaho tele-town hall Aug. 18 when he said legislative leaders “haven’t made that determination yet” regarding a special...
