By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Festival at Sandpoint officials are hoping to make 2018 the safest and most convenient festival year to date. This year, event organizers are introducing security screenings to better ensure...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal by the city of Sandpoint last week seeking protection for the Sandpoint police officers involved in the 2014 Jeanetta Riley...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Wild Idaho Rising Tide, an environmental activist organization, is challenging a state permit issued to BNSF’s proposed rail bridge expansion. Filed in the First Judicial District Court of Idaho...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The Sandpoint City Council passed a strategic plan Wednesday identifying priorities to work toward between 2018 and 2020. Under the plan, the city identifies five broad strategic priorities: a...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint is taking a wait-and-see approach to ordering a feasibility study for the University of Idaho Boyer property. In an update to the Sandpoint City Council...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff This year’s Fourth of July parade will have not one grand marshal, but four. According to Sandpoint Lions spokesperson Judy Dabrowski, the organization has selected four local law enforcement...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The past year has been good to Litehouse, Inc. The Sandpoint-based company announced this week it experienced a nearly 18-percent increase in net sales last year, and its share...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff No one was hurt in a gunfire incident at Huckleberry Retirement in which a resident of elderly care facility fired a pistol at a staffer. Officers from the Sandpoint...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Change isn’t easy. And it’s made even harder after almost 50 years of consistency. The change, in this case, is the relocation of the Pend Oreille Arts Council Arts...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The Schweitzer Cutoff Roundabout will get an aesthetic upgrade by next June following the city’s recent approval of a public art proposal. The approved artwork, “Celestial Sierra,” is a...
