By Reader Staff
What started as a highway construction project in Boundary County has resulted in archaeological findings that have the potential to rewrite the earliest history of human habitation …
By Reader Staff
The Sand Creek Clubhouse project of NAMI Far North will soon equip a kitchen with support from the Community Assistance League, Angels Over Sandpoint and Selkirk Association …
By Kathy Hubbard
Reader Contributor
Every gardener in the panhandle has been itching to don their gloves and set their trowels to work planting, but the weather forecasters keep cautioning …
By Patty Hutchens
Reader Contributor
It was once a place where abused and neglected children felt safe and loved. A place where some had first experienced sleeping on a bed …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A grizzly bear was euthanized over the weekend in Boundary County after killing seven sheep in a matter of just a few days.
IFG said …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The Idaho Community Foundation’s Northern Region Grant Panel recently announced that Bonner and Boundary county nonprofits will receive almost $50,000 in grants.
The awards are …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It wasn’t all tragic news for the Bonners Ferry Fire Department last week. The department scored about $50,000 worth of turnout gear after winning a …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Nearly 200 people lined Main Street in Bonners Ferry Saturday afternoon, evenly split to the left and right.
On one side gathered North Idaho residents …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When the big windstorm hit last year, all hell broke loose in North Idaho. Trees came down all over the county, houses were damaged, boats …
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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