Judge upholds Sagle asphalt plant approval
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Second District Court Judge Jeff M. Brudie handed down an opinion Feb. 5 in the case of the hotly contested Sagle asphalt plant proposal, affirming …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Second District Court Judge Jeff M. Brudie handed down an opinion Feb. 5 in the case of the hotly contested Sagle asphalt plant proposal, affirming …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
So-called “yarn bombing” is usually done in secret. One day, a fence or signpost is just what it appears to be; the next, after a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Board of Bonner County Commissioners has reopened public comment at regular business meetings after a confrontation at its Jan. 28 meeting led to a …
By Reader Staff
The Sandpoint City Council intends to address a number of infrastructure and water-related matters Wednesday, Feb. 19 at its regular meeting.
Among the items on the agenda …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Grocery taxes
Introduced in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee on Feb. 12, House Bill 494 would increase the grocery tax credit and equalize it …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
PacWest Silicon, the Canadian company hoping to build a smelter in Newport, Wash., has broken its prolonged silence with a letter to Washington Gov. Jay …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The long-debated resurfacing of War Memorial Field with artificial turf took a small but important step forward Feb. 5, when the Sandpoint City Council unanimously …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since 2015, Sandpoint area residents have received anonymous robocalls attacking a range of targets, including Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad and, beginning in September 2018, Sandpoint …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Wolves
Sen. Bert Brackett, R-Rogerson, introduced a bill Wednesday, Jan. 22 in the Idaho Senate that would create some wolf-free zones in Idaho where hunters …
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As the Bonner County v. City of Sandpoint weapons ban lawsuit enters its fifth month, tensions have steadily increased, boiling over when …
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