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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

The jewel thieves at the Louvre captured international attention for their brazenness in stealing some of France’s most treasured possessions. In terms of national treasures in the U.S., we don’t have ...

In the early 1980s, North Idaho was the scene of international intrigue, which unfolded amid the mountains and forests outside Bonners Ferry. It’s a story that brought together unlikely characters, ...

Sandpoint City Council members convened in a special meeting Nov. 12 to address the municipality’s longstanding non-discrimination ordinance, which Mayor Jeremy Grimm proposed should be amended to ...

Kaniksu Community Health recently announced that Joseph Wassif will serve as director of psychiatry, leading the development of its Psychiatry Department, which is part of KCH’s Certified Community ...

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 ...