By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Sheriff Daryl Wheeler took the opportunity during the public comment period of the Bonner County commissioners’ May 31 meeting to announce the formation of an audit committee to guide...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Even on a quiet Wednesday morning, the Kinderhaven house is buzzing with life. Evidence of the children who live and have lived in the group foster home are everywhere...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When Schweitzer announced its Hemlock House employee housing project in Sandpoint last December, mountain officials hinted that there were “bigger projects” in the works. That turns out to have...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Candidates for Bonner County assessor and commissioner took on the issues at a forum May 2, giving voters a chance to hear where they stand as the Tuesday, May...
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners voted April 26 to appoint longtime county employee Clorrisa Koster as Bonner County treasurer after Cheryl Piehl, who has held the job for 20 years, submitted...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff After about a year in limbo, City Hall is embarking on what Planner Amy Tweeten described as the “long-awaited restart” of Sandpoint’s Comprehensive Plan update. The document is intended...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle, has come under fire from the hard-right contingent of the Idaho GOP for his vote against the Idaho Parental Freedom in Education Act, fronted by...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Members of the Sandpoint City Council voted Jan. 19 to grant two appeals of a conditional use permit handed down by the Planning and Zoning Commission in November that...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sean A. Barron, a 52-year-old Post Falls man well known in North Idaho ultraconservative political circles, has been charged with felony sexual abuse of a child under 16 and...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The May 2022 Republican primary field got a little deeper Jan. 12, when Sandpoint resident Luke Omodt announced he would run for the District 3 Bonner County commissioner seat...
