DNA evidence leads to cold-case arrest
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint Police arrested a suspect in a 30-year Sandpoint cold case thanks to the power of DNA evidence.
Law enforcement arrested William R. Acosta at …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint Police arrested a suspect in a 30-year Sandpoint cold case thanks to the power of DNA evidence.
Law enforcement arrested William R. Acosta at …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint City Council approved a request last week to rezone part of a property near Sandpoint Airport from Industrial Technical Park to Residential Single Family.…
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint was among 87 Idaho communities to receive a failing grade in an Idaho Conservation League report analyzing the health of the state’s wastewater treatment …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Editor’s Note: New businesses are springing up all over Sandpoint this summer, and here at the Reader, we’re making an effort to introduce them to …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
From humble beginnings as a refurbished military infirmary to its sprawling, modern medical campus, Bonner General Health has come a long way in 70 years.…
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The city of Sandpoint’s plan for Canada geese management has escalated into a full-blown controversy.
Opponents filled the Sandpoint City Council public comment period Wednesday …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
New census data paint a grim picture of Idaho education, with the state coming in last in per-pupil revenues and next-to-last in per-pupil spending.
According …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint-based company Quest Aircraft announced last week it has been acquired by a French manufacturer.
Daher, which produces a line of single-engine turboprops, is in …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A coalition of physicians and health care professionals has issued an open letter opposing the proposed Newport silicon smelter.
Known as the Inland NW Physicians …
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