Bonners Ferry News

Convicted sex offender Don Leo Cox Fritzsche was arrested in Bonners Ferry on Thursday afternoon on a federal warrant and is being held in custody at Shoshone County Jail on $100,000 bond.

Bonners Ferry City Council is looking for a new police chief and fire chief. Police Chief Dave Kramer will retire Aug.

Just reported, at 12:15 7-12-08 A small plane has crashed at the Boundary County Airport. One person has walked away. Details will follow.

Update

12:25 PM Currently, the Sheriff's office is reporting no injuries and no fire.

Fire personnel responded due to leaking fuel from the aircraft. Responding law enforcement units have cleared after taking a report.

The body of a Kootenai County man linked to multiple victims of sexual abuse was discovered near a campground in Moyie Springs after he apparently jumped off the Moyie River Bridge.

The federal government today approved a plan that sets aside more than 18 miles of the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, as critical habitat for the endangered white sturgeon.

A thinning project to improve the vigor of old-growth trees on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest can continue after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed an earlier court decision halting ...

Idaho State Patrol reported three injury crashes Thursday. Stephanie Nordgaarden, 28, from Sandpoint ran into the passenger side of a pickup truck around noon Thursday while riding a bicycle northbound on U.S. ...

Pam and Dennis Ponsness' maggot farm may not smell like a bouquet of roses. But the Porthill company that might rank as the one of the smelliest businesses on the planet for raising millions of maggots since ...

An trailer accident left three injured horses alongside I-90 this afternoon, and people pulled over to help in rush hour traffic.

Boundary County Jail Commander Jeff Ennis, who lost the Republican bid for Boundary County Sheriff in the primary by nearly 300 votes, plans to run as a write-in in the Nov. 4 election.

Services held at fire hall

The flag in Bonners Ferry is being flown at half staff this week after the death of the Bonners Ferry Fire Chief Larry Glenn Owsley. He passed away from cancer on Friday, June 20.

Along with voting for a Presidential candidate in the general election, Bonners Ferry residents will also weigh in on whether they want the city to impose a resort tax on motels when they head to the polls Nov.

Longtime Bonners Ferry Police Chief Dave Kramer - who last year was bestowed with one of the highest honors an Idaho Police Chief can receive - is retiring from the Bonners Ferry Police Department effective Aug. 1.

Deputy Chief Rick Alonzo is interested in the position.

Faulty workmanship is believed to be the reason the sidewalks cracked and buckled at the 4-year-old Bonners Ferry High School.

The rumors regarding a tattoo parlor in Bonners Ferry spreading hepatitis are false.

Boundary County School Board delayed voting on whether or not to institute drug-testing students in extra-curricular activities.

Tuesday's primary election went to Boundary County's Republican incumbents. Sheriff Greg Sprungl and commissioner Walt Kirby, both of whom were challenged on the GOP ticket, won nominations.

Boundary County voters on Tuesday agreed to a property tax increase to support Boundary Community Hospital in Bonners Ferry.

Jerry Wylie feels relief now that Nicole Abraham is going to prison for the death of his son, Jimmy Wylie, but believes she should have received more time behind bars.

BONNERS FERRY, Idaho -- All of the children of a polygamist sect in Texas have been returned to their parents. That's the word from Texas child welfare officials. But one woman living in Bonners Ferry says those kids should not go home to their parents.