BGH needs help healing the Healing Garden

It’s finally feeling like spring. And you and I both know what that means. It’s time to put away the wooly mittens and get out our gardening gloves. Here’s the dirt. Bonner General Health’s Healing Garden (just north of the hospital) is in need of volunteers to clean up the mess Mother Nature made this winter.

Study: Shingles vaccine may help fight dementia

A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk of dementia, too. There have long been hints that certain viruses increase risk for later-in-life dementia, including the virus that causes chickenpox. That virus never leaves the body, hiding in nerves to erupt later when the immune system wanes from illness or age — what's called shingles. The new study tracked seniors in Wales and found shingles vaccination cut their risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.

Local skiers compete at USSA U16 Championships

Local skiers compete at USSA U16 Championships

Idaho Department of Fish and Game prepares Panhandle trout stock

Bonner County lakes are among the bodies of water that will receive fish; Cocolalla, Round, Kelso and Jewel lakes are slated to receive 9,330, 2,500, 2,500, and 1,620 trout, respectively.

PL Water seeking rate increase

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission is holding a customer hearing on April 16 to take testimony on a Priest Lake Water's application to increase its rates.

Trump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging

President Donald Trump's administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites dangers from wildfires.

Levy is in WBCSD students' best interests

Here we are in April and a levy for West Bonner School District will be voted on May 20.

Tale honors soldier's bravery, perseverance, faith

Military Tales celebrates the country's military, and its servicemen and women and their service.

Upcoming play features plenty of comedy, laughter

Head on over to one of five performances of "No Laughing Matter", written by Jeff Dunne, a play that features an ex-comedian busboy, a British courier for the Russian intelligence agency, and FBI agents who thinks the ex-comedian is a spy.

Momentous hearings await ahead of Kohberger trial

More than 170 legal filings with considerable implications for trial in the University of Idaho student homicides case are set to near their resolution as defendant Bryan Kohberger returns to the courtroom Wednesday.

North Idaho Lakers tryouts coming up

North Idaho Lakers tryouts coming up

The Write Stuff

Sandpoint Writers announce contest winners, celebrating writing

The Sandpoint Writers on the Lake's annual writing contest, held March 22, attracted people of all ages to the Sandpoint library community rooms. There the roughly 80 to 90 people who turned up to listen to the several dozen works were tasked with judging the participating writers who read for five minutes from their own unpublished works.

Clark Fork trap shooting team ready for spring season

Clark Fork trap shooting team ready for spring season

LOCAL NOTES: Hall helping Wolverines succeed on mat and in classroom

LOCAL NOTES: Hall helping Wolverines succeed on mat and in classroom

Legals for April, 9 2025

PREP ROUNDUP: Priest River’s Coleman golfs to medalist honors at Kellogg Invitational

PREP ROUNDUP: Priest River’s Coleman golfs to medalist honors at Kellogg Invitational

Meyer pleads guilty to amended arson charge

The woman charged in connection to a July 4 fire that burned down the Army Surplus 1 store pled guilty Tuesday to an amended charge of second-degree arson.

Bonner County Calendar - April 8, 2025

A look at the events, activities, and meetings happening around Bonner County, from Sandpoint to Cocolalla, from Priest River to Ponderay, and from Clark Fork to Dover.

Climate crisis claims not backed by scientists

In his letter of March 25, Jack DeBaun says “Use of the word ‘crisis’ isn't alarmist, ideologically-motivated rhetoric.” But, as evidenced by the agencies he quoted, that is a false statement.

Month's creation is a new low, even for Idaho

The Idaho House on Tuesday approved the establishment of Traditional Family Values Month, in a similar resolution to one passed in the Senate in February.