County receives no-wake buoy donation
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
County commissioners approved the use of 10 new mobile no-wake buoys on the Pend Oreille River Tuesday, marking the latest in the Bonner County wake …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
County commissioners approved the use of 10 new mobile no-wake buoys on the Pend Oreille River Tuesday, marking the latest in the Bonner County wake …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Sheriff’s Deputy Rob Danno can describe this year’s waterway debris situation in a single word: “Problematic.”
“There’s an unusual amount of debris in …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County Commissioners approved higher no-wake zone fines Tuesday, doubling the infraction cost and making subsequent infractions even more costly.
Fines for no-wake zone violations …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A man drowned in Jewel Lake on Saturday, May 12, after jumping off a dock.
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office reports that they, Selkirk Fire …
By Reader Staff
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting Boat Idaho courses on April 14, May 5 and June 9 for the boating public wanting to learn basic …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader staff
The temperature is a solid 80 degrees come Sunday at City Beach. There’s barely a wisp of cloud in the sky. The water temperature rests …
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