I made my first run for the office of sheriff in 2008 against four other Republican candidates. The Bonner County Republican Central Committee (BCRCC) hosted a series of forums around the county, ...

The lineup for the 2026 Festival at Sandpoint’s Community Night will feature Portland, Ore.-based folk band Joseph, alongside Sydney Dale, of Coeur d’Alene, and Sandpoint local Hannah Meehan. Set for ...

Construction is ongoing at the Idaho Club’s 88-slip marina adjacent to the mouth of Trestle Creek, after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers temporarily halted activities Dec. 22, due to an alleged ...

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 ...

I was gifted my first Harry Potter book in third grade. It was wrapped alongside my siblings’ copies, with strict instructions to wait our turn and read them in order. As the youngest, and the obvious ...

During a CNN interview with Jake Tapper in January, Steve Miller, top adviser to the current administration, stated while discussing the potential U.S. annexation of Greenland and other military ...

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 ...

With the filing deadline to seek office in the Tuesday, May 19 primary election passed, voters in Idaho Legislative Dist. 1 will have a full slate of candidates to choose from. Every legislative seat ...

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 ...

After more than four hours of public testimony and deliberation — and a series of tie votes, all broken by Sandpoint Mayor Jeremy Grimm — the Sandpoint City Council voted Nov. 19 to amend its ...

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 ...