‘A loss for our community’
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
For 22 years, North Idaho Children and Community Mental Health has provided a suite of critical resources for children and their families with mental health …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
For 22 years, North Idaho Children and Community Mental Health has provided a suite of critical resources for children and their families with mental health …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In one of the longest and most well-attended Tuesday business meetings in recent memory, Bonner County commissioners came to a split vote on a motion …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners heard and ultimately tabled recommendations from the Planning Commission to update the Hazardous Areas and Special Areas or Sites components of the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The Bonner County commissioners’ Jan. 3 meeting marked the last weekly business meeting appearances by District 2 Commissioner Jeff Connolly and District 3 Commissioner Dan …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners voted unanimously Dec. 21 to adopt updates to the Bonner County Comprehensive Plan’s Goals, Objectives and Policies document while facing concerns about …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners voted unanimously Dec. 21 to send a zone change application for 11.8 acres at the intersection of Dufort and Vay roads back …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Representatives of Portland, Ore.-based Leland Consulting Group returned to the Sandpoint City Council at its regular meeting Dec. 7, filling in councilors on updates to …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It was a hefty agenda at the Dec. 7 regular meeting of the Sandpoint City Council, including one item that is sure to ruffle at …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
After an initial notice of tort claim in late 2021, Bonner County Deputy Prosecutor Scott Bauer officially filed a civil suit against Bonner County commissioners …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
It’s been just over a week since Bonner County Prosecuting Attorney Louis Marshall, Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler and Sandpoint Police Chief Corey Coon released …
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