Priorities for the 2025 legislative session
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Dover
Reader Contributor
Last week the Reader ran an article about the Highway 95 reroute project. We learned the Idaho Transportation Department was abandoning its exploratory …
By Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Dover
Reader Contributor
Last week the Reader ran an article about the Highway 95 reroute project. We learned the Idaho Transportation Department was abandoning its exploratory …
By Delia Trenbath
Reader Contributor
Congratulations to the city of Dover for becoming a “Monarch City” — the second community in the state of Idaho to proudly carry that title. …
By Reader Staff
Visitors and residents in Dover will start to see work commence on the construction of a new post office in the city, as crews mobilize equipment beginning …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Just over a year since the release of her book, Pushed Out: Contested development and rural gentrification in the U.S. West, Montana-born, North Idaho-raised …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Neighbors in Dover have been abuzz in recent days over what may — or may not — happen at the former Thorne Research building.
The …
By Reader Staff
It’s time for you and your canine best friend to hit the trail. The Community Assistance League (CAL) sponsors its fifth annual Paws for a Cause dog …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
If a major part of growing up is moving out of the parents’ house, then SPOT just hit its stride.
The bus system, which launched …
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