After months of consideration, and a meeting with the Bonner County board of commissioners, the Sandpoint Planning and Zoning Commission voted July 15 to recommend eliminating the city’s area of ...

By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Keeping plants happy in summer heatwaves is no small feat, and, if done incorrectly, it can balloon water bills to ridiculous proportions. Balancing time, money and a ...

The Festival at Sandpoint unveiled the 2025 fine arts poster at its July 8 sponsor appreciation dinner at The Idaho Club. Local artist Perky Smith-Hagadone’s “Wild Cantata ...

The U.S. House passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” on a 218-214 vote July 3, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4. While Trump proclaimed a “phenomenal victory,” Democrats were ...

The world forever changed on August 21, 1940, when Loris Jeanette Michael entered it on a kitchen table in Ansley, Neb. and changed again on June 22, 2025, when Loris made her exit.

For longtime North Idaho locals, there are three topics that frequently come up in conversation: how fast Sandpoint is changing and growing; downtown traffic; and the infamous winter of 1996-’97, when ...

By Reader Staff Editor’s note: Kaylee Peterson has been campaigning as a Democrat against Republican U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher since 2022. Amid a swing through 10 counties in Idaho in 10 days, she ...

The purpose of the fees — which range from $15-$30 for resident and nonresident parking passholders, respectively, and $10-$15 per boat launch for Idaho residents and out-of-state users — is to ...

By Ben Olson Reader Contributor Of all the human emotions, grief is perhaps the most complicated — and the most universal. Most of us have lost someone we loved, and there’s not one single ...

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has been a topic of censorship ever since it was first published in 1932. The dystopian speculative novel explores societal and political ...

Kaniksu Community Health recently announced that Joseph Wassif will serve as director of psychiatry, leading the development of its Psychiatry Department, which is part of KCH’s Certified Community ...

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 ...