After months of waiting, the Panhandle Bike Ranch has achieved federal recognition from the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The designation is a milestone in founders Jennifer and ...

Sandpoint Writers on the Lake announced the winners of its annual writing contest, held March 14 and drawing scribes of all ages to the Sandpoint branch of the East Bonner County Library. Winners in ...

More than 100 people attended the third and final District 1 town hall gathering March 28 at Sandpoint Community Hall, hosted by Sen. Jim Woodward, R-Sagle and Rep. Mark Sauter, R-Sandpoint. Idaho ...

The Festival at Sandpoint has announced two new additions to its 2026 summer concert series lineup: Portugal. The Man and Switchfoot. The alt-rock band Portugal. The Man will perform Saturday, Aug. 1, ...

The Pend Oreille Lakes Commission reported that the Pend Oreille/Clark Fork Watershed is “experiencing an unusually high runoff for this time of year,” resulting in a projected lake level above 2,055 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

North Idaho may soon have a connection to a worldwide effort to launch a space-based internet service into every nook and cranny of the planet. Starlink, an initiative by private aerospace ...

Idahoans around the state went to the polls May 21 to select candidates who will appear in the November general election. The primary in District 1 — which includes both Bonner and Boundary counties — ...

Carnivorous plants are a curiosity of the natural world. Most plants are stationary and docile, presenting very little threat outside of the occasional falling tree or poisonous berry. Then there is ...

About 40 community members gathered Oct. 20 at the Sandpoint Center for an election forum featuring four candidates for the Sandpoint City Council and a presentation from Sandpoint Mayor Jeremy Grimm ...