Bonner County News

On TV, the commercials portray alcohol in the best of lights. A horse exercises a la Rocky Balboa to join the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The Bonner County Gardeners Association is developing a Membership Education Course that will be offered to the public this spring.

Idaho lawmakers have killed legislation to set a minimum lake level for Cocolalla Lake in North Idaho, after Bonner County commissioners came out against it earlier this week.

Retiring District 2 Sen. Joyce Broadsword, R-Sagle, plans to run for a seat on the Bonner County Commission, Idaho News Service has learned.

An abstract art structure put up at the Bonner County Courthouse in northern Idaho a decade ago as a counterbalance to an Aryan Nations plan to parade through Sandpoint is slated to be removed.

The federal government has proposed designating about 600 square miles in Idaho and Washington - roughly half the size of Rhode Island - as critical habitat in an effort to save this last U.S. herd of fewer than 50 animals.

The Idaho Department of Correction is searching for an inmate who escaped from the Idaho Correctional Institution in Orofino Friday morning.

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Department of Correction is searching for an inmate who escaped from the Idaho Correctional Institution-Orofino Friday morning.

Idaho's Redistricting Commission passed, by unanimous vote Friday, a new way to slice up Idaho's legislative districts, after seeing its last plan shot down by the Idaho Supreme Court for crossing over too many of the Gem State's county lines.

Read a statistical report here on the new district plan, see maps here , and comment here at Eye on Boise BOISE - After just two days of deliberations, Idaho's citizen redistricting commission has adopted a new legislative district plan - and this one doesn't land North Idaho Sens.

Idaho's six citizen redistricting commissioners have been working straight through since 9 this morning, either in small working groups or as a full commission; they worked through lunch, while reviewing all seven of the plans that already have been submitted to the commission that have the minimum number of county splits - five.

1:48 p.m. Semi truck has hit a fence on Samuels Road, 2 miles east of H95, Bonner County.

According to the Bonner County Daily Bee, Sandpoint is experiencing steady growth in terms of the number of people in our community finding jobs.

Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, capping off a remarkable comeback for his presidential bid that reshapes the trajectory of the battle for the GOP nomination.

Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has died. The college-football legend was 85 years old when he succumbed in his battle with lung cancer.

Here's a roundup of accident reports issued by Washington State Patrol and Idaho State Police late Friday night and Saturday morning: - ISP is on the scene of a multiple vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 95 near Cocolalla Creek in Bonner County.

BONNER COUNTY, Idaho - Bonner County Dispatch confirmed with us that there is a multi-vehicle collision on US 95 in between Cocolalla and Sagle.

KHQ.COM - The North Idaho Violent Crimes Task Force is seeking information leading to the apprehension of Nathaniel Robert Howell.

KHQ.COM - Early Wednesday morning Bonner County Sheriff's deputies responded to 320 McDonald Creek Road near Blanchard, Idaho, to assist the Spirit Lake Fire Department with a fully-engulfed structure fire.

It ain't easy jettisoning public art devoted to tolerance. But the Bonner County commissioners are trying.