By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer Bonner County commissioners voted 3-0 Tuesday to adopt the Natural Resource Plan after four years of writing, workshopping and public debate. The plan, drafted by a commissioner-appointed committee,...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer The Natural Resource Plan will live to see another set of revisions after Wednesday night’s public hearing. This was the last public hearing regarding the NRP, which was...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer The question of whether the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness will come to be will now be an issue Bonner County citizens can vote for or against on their...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer Friday night’s climate change presentation and panel discussion, “Let’s Clear the Air: A Conversation about Climate, Energy and Jobs,” attracted a full Sandpoint Community Hall. And as the...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer Climate change can be a particularly divisive topic, so local forces are teaming up for a night of bipartisan discussion. “Let’s Clear the Air: A Conversation about Climate,...
By Jim Ramsey Reader Contributor In the wake of catastrophic fires in the West in the summer and fall following the unprecedented storms in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, this is certainly the right...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer The Bonner County Commissioners held a workshop Wednesday to review the county’s Natural Resource Plan, drafted by the Bonner County Natural Resource Committee. “This plan is meant to...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The public turned out in droves Tuesday for another Bonner County Board of Commissioners meeting, this time to debate the merits of a proposed Clagstone Meadows conservation easement. The...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Commissioners signed off on a controversial change to Bonner County Planning Department appeals Wednesday despite heavy resistance. Dozens of county residents attended the meeting to oppose the change, which...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff If any symbolic figureheads have emerged in the local debate over refugee resettlement, they’re Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad and Bonner County Commissioner Glen Bailey. Bailey and his fellow commissioners...
