Bonners Ferry News

Looking for some fireworks this 4th of July weekend? Here's where you can watch fireworks displays across the Inland Northwest: Saturday, July 4th Washington Spokane's Riverfront Park - Fireworks 10 pm Deer Park - 10 pm Pullman - Sunnyside Park, Fireworks at Dusk Idaho Coeur d'Alene - Parade Down Sherman Avenue at 11 am, Fireworks at Dusk Bayview, ...

The national recession not only reduced migration to Idaho from other states and countries in 2008, but it slowed the exodus of people from Idaho's rural communities, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates indicate.

Topic: Births, Weddings & Anniversaries Area News : Utter Anniversary Published Online Jun 29, 2009 - 01:38 PM Email this to a friend Clifford and Donna Utter of Bonners Ferry, ID will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, July 11, 2009 with a reception at the Sandpoint Community Hall in Sandpoint, ID.

"Job Loss and the 401 Rollover Miscues" - Vorpahl Wing Securities, Inc.,will host this financial education program for laid-off workers, retirees and job-changers from 4-5:30 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 806 W. Knox.

In 1938, a gallon of gas cost $.10, Franklin Roosevelt was president and Elton and Elinore King fell in love.

Four weddings and a funeral are already booked on The Shadow, a 65-foot-long and 149-passenger tour boat that slid into the waters of Flathead Lake for the first time last week.

Football: Ryan Leaf's lawyer says the indicted former NFL quarterback will surrender on drug and burglary charges in Texas.

Three men were killed in separate traffic crashes over the weekend in Eastern Washington and North Idaho.

The Idaho State Laboratory confirmed H1N1 influenza Thursday in four of seven people who recently visited Bonners Ferry with an out-of-state church group.

At least five members of a San Diego church group who spent more than a week volunteering in North Idaho have tested positive for the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

Nine people are hurt, including two critically injured young children, and one driver has been arrested after a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 5 near DuPont, Wash.

Numbers from the National School Board Association show that about 100 districts in 17 states are operating on shortened weeks, The Spokesman-Review reported.

Valley View Elementary kindergartner Emily Palmer smiles at her parents during the end of the year celebration at her school in Bonners Ferry on Wednesday.

Members of Lazarus are, from left, Dillon Deitz, Keith Anderson, Derek Deitz, Jacob Craner and Stephen Fredericks.

The Obama administration is nudging the medical industry into making a fundamental shift to a paperless system.

Two Spokane residents are under arrest after the sheriff's SWAT team raided their home early Thursday following an undercover operation conducted by the sheriff's Investigative Support Unit.

A May 9 Rural Education Workshop sponsored by the University of Idaho Extension Horizons project will help strengthen and improve the ties between rural schools and their communities.

Josephine Brooks, Sadie Galloway and Joy Nickles liken themselves to the three witches from "Macbeth." "They are three conniving, strong women," Nickles said with a laugh as she pictured the characters from William Shakespeare's classic play.

A fund to help Chris and Carol Peine and their granddaughter has been set up at Mountain West Bank in Sandpoint.

Yet another strong storm has brought rain, snow and below average temperatures to the region and it's going to stick around until Friday, however there is good news: the weekend looks dry, sunny and much more mild.