By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff About six months after opening the doors to the James E. Russell Sports Center, city officials reported May 28 that the facility is running at a deficit of ...

By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The First Judicial Court of Idaho ruled June 6 to vacate the conditional use permit for a recreational facility that the Bonner County board of commissioners granted ...

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 ...

By Reader Staff From her days working a chainsaw and writing a regular column with the Sandpoint Reader, Jen Jackson Quintano has emerged as the go-to women’s reproductive rights activist in North ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Contributor If you grew up around here, you likely learned a bit about steam locomotives during Pacific Northwest History class in high school. Since at least the 1890s, the ...

By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Contributor May’s not even over yet, and it has not disappointed. The first days of May were the tailend of our Ireland trip. I was just home long enough ...

By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff First responders with Selkirk Fire & Rescue battled a blaze May 27 that grew to include multiple structures and vehicles, as well as about five acres of vegetation, ...

By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff If we didn’t have Wes Anderson, we’d have to create him. And every entry from the auteur director is a “creation” in the fullest sense. Anderson’s milieu is ...

By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff City Hall has been debating what to do about Sandpoint’s moribund City Beach lifeguard program since at least the spring of 2023, when officials sounded the alarm about ...

By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Just shy of three months after the Idaho Economic Advisory Council cleared the way for Timberline Helicopters’ expansion in Sandpoint, representatives from the locally ...

By Jennifer Ekstrom Reader Contributor With summer upon us, Lake Pend Oreille’s glistening water beckons. Whether dusting off your paddleboard, plotting kayak camping adventures, scheming new tricks ...

By Gabrielle Duebendorfer Reader Contributor Sand Lake is a popular fishing and huckleberry picking destination and the trail from the end of Forest Service Road No. 2670 off Elmira Road has been ...