Local law enforcement organize manhunt
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An attempted traffic stop Monday night triggered a car chase and gunfire on Bonner County Sheriff’s deputies.
Oldtown resident Patrick Allen Geaudreau, 27, is at …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An attempted traffic stop Monday night triggered a car chase and gunfire on Bonner County Sheriff’s deputies.
Oldtown resident Patrick Allen Geaudreau, 27, is at …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Bonner County Undersheriff David Hale, Sheriff Daryl Wheeler’s second-in-command, resigned last week under fire from accusations of improper electioneering.
Hale took heat earlier this month …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler is adding his voice to those protesting Syrian refugee resettlement in Idaho.
This Tuesday, Wheeler wrote a letter to Gov. …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An adult male died in Spirit Lake this week following a lethal altercation with the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff’s office officials say that on …
By Reader Staff
We regret to report that a two-year-old child was killed in a motorhome fire in Oldtown last night.
On July 14 at approximately 8 p.m., a structure …
The Bonner County Sheriff is seeking information about these two individuals:
Karl E. Erikson 08/08/1982, 32 year old from Wasilla, Alaska is wanted in connection with the robbery of Horizon …
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