By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Crews working on the Upper Smith Fire, burning on 2,305 acres about 20 miles northwest of Bonners Ferry, have brought the blaze to 40% containment, as of Aug. 5. Reported...
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The July 23 edition of the Reader republished a Northern Idaho News story from June 25, 1912, announcing the arrest of Joseph Caprai for the murder of one Charles Falcone,...
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Former Los Angeles Police Detective and longtime resident of Sandpoint and Spokane, Mark Fuhrman, died May 12 in Kootenai County. He was 74 years old. In 1996, Fuhrman was convicted...
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff As inspectors with the Idaho Transportation Department are addressing deteriorating concrete beams beneath the deck of the pedestrian portion of the Long Bridge, some users are making that work more...
By Lauren NecocheaReader Contributor With great power comes great responsibility. We should expect our elected leaders to conduct themselves according to the highest ethical standards. Sadly, a Republican proposal would make it easier to...
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Rian Johnson’s mini-franchise Knives Out has been billed as breathing new life into “the British drawing room murder mystery,” with its titular first installment in 2019, followed by Glass Onion...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Sandpoint woman charged with setting a fire on July 4, 2024 that leveled the Army Surplus 1 store on Fifth Avenue and Oak Street has amended her plea...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Jennifer S. Meyer was back in Bonner County court Feb. 20, entering a plea of “not guilty” in the suspected arson that destroyed the Army Surplus 1 store in...
By Reader Staff Idaho Fish and Game is looking for information after a bald eagle was shot and killed near Sandpoint. According to the agency, the eagle is believed to have been killed between...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Nobody knows who wrote the first letter to Santa Claus, but the practice didn’t catch on in mainstream America until a con artist named John D. Gluck became intertwined...
