Laughing Dog enters teen years
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
It’s been 13 years since Laughing Dog Brewing got its start in a garage, and since then the happy canine face that graces the company’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
It’s been 13 years since Laughing Dog Brewing got its start in a garage, and since then the happy canine face that graces the company’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The 2019 Bonner County budget was finalized last week, boasting increased salaries in several departments and introducing a 3-percent tax increase.
Going into effect this …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Cougar Fire made substantial moves over the weekend, as the blaze jumped Lightning Creek headed northeast and tripled in size.
The fire, located five …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Cougar Fire made substantial moves this weekend, as the blaze jumped Lightning Creek headed northeast and tripled in size.
The fire, located five miles …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Since the release of his debut album “Chariot” in 2003, Gavin DeGraw has become a household name in the singer-songwriter genre and in the realm …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Cynthia Mason has been teaching in Sandpoint for more than two decades, and teaching in general since the ‘70s. After this coming school year, she’ll …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner Mall in Ponderay is known for a few things. The DMV line is almost always out the door, JC Penney is the centerpiece …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The July 27 lightning storm started 93 fires across the Coeur d’Alene Interagency Dispatch Zone, with 11 growing to be greater than five acres, totaling …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Cougar Fire, located five miles east of Hope and just north of Porcupine Lake, is an estimated 700 acres as of Monday and continuing …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
ZZ Top is working on five decades of creating iconic rock jams, which is a feat not many artists can claim. The Reader caught up …
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