A long-awaited analysis of how seasonal pool fluctuations on Lake Pend Oreille affect the area’s economy has been released after more than a year in the works, showing “significant” losses to local ...

Here we present the winners of the fourth 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 ...

The Call of the Wild: By Don Otis Reader Columnist We made our way to the Chimney Rock trailhead late last fall hoping to summit 7181’ Silver Dollar Peak. Two miles up we left the well-maintained ...

In the past decade, we have made substantial investments in Idaho’s future by investing in infrastructure. Rural sewer and water, state and local transportation, and schools have been a real focus in ...

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 ...

Kaniksu Community Health is adding to its local offerings with the announcement Jan. 16 that it will create a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic program. Paid for with a grant from the ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: In this, the fifth and final article on the stand-off at Ruby Ridge, we will share the close of the trial, the verdict and the aftermath of this incident. Special thanks goes out to ...

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 ...

Aispuro returns for third term while Tate, Torrez are newcomers to the dais By Zach HagadoneReader Staff It’s a new year and a new Sandpoint City Council, with the swearing in and confirmation Jan.

Underneath the paved streets, the brick buildings, real estate offices and fast-food joints, there exists another North Idaho. It’s buried beneath the modern trappings of a Northwestern resort town, ...

The view from the Jamieson’s dining room table is familiar but still breathtaking. Beyond the curtains and glass lies Lake Pend Oreille, sprawled out beneath the Hope hillside. Punctuating the dark ...