Bonner General earns ADA recognition

The American Diabetes Association has recognized Bonner General Health through the organization's Education Recognition Program. The diabetes self-management education and support service was originally recognized in June 2021.

Community invited to hear Rachel Jeffs Blackmore

The community is invited to hear an upcoming presentation by Rachel Jeffs Blackmore. Blackmore is slated to speak at a Wednesday, April 16, Community Assistance League presentation at the Heartwood Center, 615 Oak St., from 10-11 a.m.

Bonner County Calendar - April 13, 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.

Prosecutors allowed to admit some traffic stop footage

During a traffic stop months before four University of Idaho college students were stabbed to death, the man accused of killing them questioned why the deputy who pulled him over needed his driver’s license and phone number.

Road weight limits continue to ease

Road weight limits are beginning to lift on some of the county's roads; however, restrictions remain on many with no hauling permitted on several, according to Bonner County Road & Bridge officials.

Volunteers help Healing Garden bloom

Community key to keeping garden a peaceful oasis

Among the roughly half-dozen volunteers getting Bonner General Health's Healing Garden ready for the season was Sharon McCormick, dressed warmly against the chilly spring morning.

Passing WBCSD levy is critical for community, students

In May, we have the privilege to vote on the new levy. So, No. 1 is to get out and vote. It's critical. Passing the levy is critical. I have said before to get out and check the facts before you decide which way you're going to vote.

Legislative session sees changes in education, taxes

District 1 legislators discuss local issues and concerns in the weekly Notes from Boise column.

PREP BASEBALL: Sandpoint puts pieces together, sweeps Lewiston

PREP BASEBALL: Sandpoint puts pieces together, sweeps Lewiston

Bonner County Calendar - April 12, 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.

Lewis Wetzel, 93

Lt. Col. Lewis Walker Wetzel USAF (Ret.), 93 passed away on Sunday, March 30, 2025.

Little OKs increase in state public defense budget

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Friday approving a budget increase for the state’s new Office of the State Public Defender.

Decision extends freeze on USFS Project

Litigation surrounding Bonner County forestry work could go on

The USFS’ Hanna Flats Good Neighbor Authority Project, which the agency has said would reduce insect disease and catastrophic wildfire risk and is planned to include 2,352 acres of timber harvest, prescribed fire and reforestation work, has been challenged in court since 2018 by conservation group Alliance for the Wild Rockies.

Legals for April, 12 2025

A coaching career to remember

Childs resigns as Sandpoint High boys basketball coach

Childs resigns as Sandpoint High boys basketball coach

Bonner County Calendar - April 11, 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.

It’s time to avail much

Bonner County pastors share messages of faith and hope.

Community invited to find God's love

Local congregations invite all in the community to join them in faith — whether they are looking for a new church family or are new to town and are seeking a place to worship.

Greek monk keeps faith, community together

For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea. Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery has changed little since it was founded more than a millennium ago on the Greek island of Amorgos. And even as Greece rapidly secularizes alongside the rest of Europe, and islands like Amorgos wrestle with the massive growth of tourism, a few Orthodox Christian monks like Spyridon remain icons of local life. Locals continue to go to him for spiritual advice and praise his care for all visitors.

Hearing could set rules for evidence in Kohberger trial

Prosecutors and attorneys for a man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in 2022 began arguing some of the final ground rules they want for Bryan Kohberger's trial in a Wednesday morning hearing.