County weighs mining code change
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
On the Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission agenda for Aug. 27 is a code change that, if enacted, would streamline and simplify the permitting …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
On the Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission agenda for Aug. 27 is a code change that, if enacted, would streamline and simplify the permitting …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Second District Court Judge Jeff M. Brudie handed down an opinion Feb. 5 in the case of the hotly contested Sagle asphalt plant proposal, affirming …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The next step in the ongoing legal challenge to a proposed asphalt plant in Sagle is in the hands of Second District Court Judge Jeff …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A petition for judicial review of a decision paving the way for an asphalt plant in Sagle will go before a judge Friday, Dec. 13 …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The saga of the proposed asphalt batch plant in Sagle continues after a District Court judge in Nez Perce County ruled July 26 to deny …
By Jonna Plante
Reader Contributor
This is an open letter to Linscott Gravel, Interstate Concrete and Asphalt, Bonner County Planning & Zoning and Bonner County Commissioners:
Our group is tired …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
County commissioners upheld approval of a conditional use permit for an asphalt batch plant at a reconsideration hearing Friday.
The applicants, Interstate Concrete & Asphalt, …
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