2024 election results
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The 2024 general election was historic by every measure. Former-President Donald Trump won both the popular and Electoral College vote, besting Democratic Vice President Kamala …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The 2024 general election was historic by every measure. Former-President Donald Trump won both the popular and Electoral College vote, besting Democratic Vice President Kamala …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s been 31 years since Floyd McGhee and Mike Read first envisioned a dedicated regional sports facility in Ponderay. Then conceived of as the McGhee …
By Reader Staff
For the better part of 15 years, the communities of Ponderay, Kootenai and Sandpoint have collaborated to create, sustain and expand the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail — …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s been a long time coming, but the effort to connect Ponderay with its Lake Pend Oreille waterfront is teeing up to enter the first …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Kevin Costner’s baseball diamond looks like a T-Ball field compared to the city of Ponderay’s proposed Field of Dreams Recreation Complex, named after the classic …
A Ponderay child care business has closed permanently following allegations that a six-month-old infant was left unattended and suffered serious injuries.
A letter from the…By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An art project that could go as far as Jamaica and New York City is getting its start in Ponderay.
Local man Don Frost is …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Ponderay City Council approved a special use permit for an indoor shooting range Monday. It will be the first range of its kind in …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Local police departments are requesting citizen aid in tracking down a pair of suspects in a Perfection Tire robbery.
According to Sandpoint and Ponderay police …
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