For me, the Oscars are basically the Super Bowl. My family has treated them that way for years. We dress up in tuxes and gowns, walk a makeshift red carpet down my aunt and uncle’s hallway, and spend ...

The Panida Theater board of trustees’ monthly meeting March 5 drew a few more spectators than usual. The Little Theater was filled to capacity, with others standing along the back and side walls to ...

Kiosks and permit system rolling out by the summer By Zach HagadoneReader Staff After more than a year of planning, deliberation and consultation, the city of Sandpoint took the final step toward ...

TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022. GO READ IT» WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021. GO READ IT» THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, ...

Loris Michael (Aug. 21, 1940 – June 22, 2025) The world forever changed on August 21, 1940, when Loris Jeanette Michael entered it on a kitchen table in Ansley, Neb. and changed again on June 22, 2025 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have to hand it to the Bonner County commissioners for shutting down the Panhandle Bike Ranch. It’s about time we got some common sense back in the woods. Living in one of the nation’s most ...

Editor’s Note: In this, the fifth and final article on the stand-off at Ruby Ridge, we will share the close of the trial, the verdict and the aftermath of this incident. Special thanks goes out to ...

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, ...

The Bonner County Board of Commissioners will hold a special meeting with representatives from Panhandle Health District on Monday, Feb. 23, at 1 p.m. to discuss a recent audit of the district’s ...