There is no easy way to define the rural Albertan singer-songwriter Corb Lund. Hailing from the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains with a long family lineage of ranchers and rodeo people, Lund ...

The Bonner County Board of Commissioners’ business meeting on March 17 drew a large and vocal crowd due to two agenda items considering the closure of the Lakeview and Schweitzer solid waste sites.

The Bonner County Board of Commissioners held a special meeting March 23 with members of the Fair Board, discussing the future of the fair and addressing various operational questions with input from ...

Sandpoint City Hall announced some big administrative changes in the past week: first, that Meri Jane Bohn would take over as city clerk following the retirement of Melissa Ward from the position, ...

Legislative Dist. 1 Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle, and 1A Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint, will host their third in a series of legislative updates and town halls in Bonner and Boundary counties, with ...

Wetlands are invaluable natural resources. The lakes and rivers that define North Idaho depend on intact wetland systems to filter water, store snowmelt and release clean, cold flows back into ...

Occasionally, amid the constant drumbeat of negative stories about our crumbling world, the spotlight shines on something truly absurd to provide much-needed comic relief. Enter McDonald’s CEO Chris ...

While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting some things right, or at least half right, and just as many wrong (or half ...

Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel of ...

In the early 1980s, North Idaho was the scene of international intrigue, which unfolded amid the mountains and forests outside Bonners Ferry. It’s a story that brought together unlikely characters, ...

We’ve explored the history of firearms before, but several thousand years is hard to cover in a page. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of the earliest firearms used widely in European warfare ...

Editor’s Note: In the early morning of Aug. 21, 1992, six U.S. Deputy Marshals moved onto a steep, mountainous piece of property off of Ruby Creek Road near Naples, Idaho on what was later termed a ...