Navigating water quality in Lake Pend Oreille
By Karissa Huntsman
Reader Contributor
As snow is falling on the mountains and hills around Sandpoint, many are looking ahead to the upcoming winter season. Here at the Idaho Conservation …
Tagged: health
Idahoans value Medicaid; GOP should follow their lead
Rep. Lauren Necochea, D-Boise
Reader Contributor
With the holiday season upon us, I’m reminded of the ways in which we care for one another. One of the best ways we …
Idaho’s infant, mother death rate is rising, new report finds
By Kyle Pfannenstiel
Idaho Capital Sun
A new report released Nov. 28 found children and mothers are dying in Idaho at an increasing rate. Reforming Medicaid coverage in the state …
Taking health to heart
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Those looking for healthy alternatives and ways to incorporate more self care into their lives in the new year are likely to find something to …
A grain of salt: The small things that keep us sane
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
The world may well be ending, and if assessments of common science are plausible, we’re headed along an expected trajectory where the only real debatable …
A Grain of Salt: Our love measured in six feet
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
I was heading to a friend’s house to go for a run – one of the few socially sanctioned outings we can still cling to …
A grain of salt: The detrimental danger of goal setting
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
There’s a sort of pass/fail culture happening in, well, pretty much everything we do these days. We set lofty intentions and label them as “goals,” …
A grain of salt: Seasonal affect for the resistant
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When the sadness hits, I know it. It’s different from other kinds of sadness; it’s a kind of tender response to the humdrum of everyday …
A grain of salt: The happiness project
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Every year, without fail, the new year arrives. With it’s slow, unstoppable force, like blackberry overgrowth, it creeps over us with suffocating thorny truths and …
A grain of salt: Gifting yourself down-time
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa …
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Snowboard Demos, Film Festivals, Community Day, Snowghost, and more! See the full list of events in the 
