Bonner County News

Complications have cropped up as a Bonner County attorney awaits sentencing on federal sex crime and tax fraud charges, court documents indicate.

Bonner County is clouding the title of a home allegedly built within a floodway and urging the landowners be evicted from the National Flood Insurance Program.

After a year without much activity, the task force's annual meeting on Tuesday attracted an attendance of more than 50 people.

The recently-hired education administrator is busy preparing to step into the role of Lake Pend Oreille School District superintendent this July once Dick Cvitanich leaves for a new job in Washington state.

Hattie Ponti, 15, was crowned as Washington state champion in a number of woman's categories in small-bore shooting events in 1997 SHOOTING - Girls will rule Saturday, June 9, at a Take Your Daughter to the Range Day sponsored by the Bonner County Sportsmen's Association.

Commissioners Lewis Rich and Mike Nielsen deadlocked on whether to formally reject the ordinance, but ultimately agreed to remand the issue back to the Planning & Zoning Commission to develop a non-regulatory approach to surface water quality protections.

Lake Pend Oreille School District seniors learned just that Tuesday morning when emergency professionals staged a mock DUI car wreck in the high school parking lot.

A Bonner County man who was shot in an armed confrontation that a jury found he started was ordered Tuesday to serve up to 10 years in prison.

A Bonner County man convicted of opening fire on two people during a dispute in the Upper Pack River Valley is scheduled to be sentenced today.

Developers of an upscale, fly-in housing development at the Sandpoint Airport in northern Idaho have filed a lawsuit against Bonner County contending they have not been treated fairly.

Developers of an upscale, fly-in housing development at the Sandpoint Airport in northern Idaho have filed a lawsuit against Bonner County contending they have not been treated fairly.

A legal challenge of a controversial subdivision expansion at the north end of Priest Lake is being put to rest.

The battle between the conservative Reagan Republicans and the uberconservative United Conservatives of North Idaho for control of the Kootenai County Republican Party won't end soon.

Waterfront landowners in unicorporated portions of Bonner County are getting a little more elbow room when it comes to developing their property.

City officials in Sandpoint in northern Idaho are declining an offer from the Idaho State Department of Agriculture to apply herbicide in Lake Pend Oreille near city beaches to eradicate Eurasian milfoil.

Once again, Lost in the 50's is right around the corner, and like every year, executive Carolyn Gleason is spending every waking moment making sure the weekend goes off without a hitch.

Authorities say a northern Idaho driver fled the scene of the accident on foot while carrying his 2-year-old daughter and was arrested after deputies followed the sound of the toddler's cries.

Continuing the statewide trend of more-moderate Republicans winning in yesterday's GOP primary, Sen.

Authorities say a northern Idaho driver fled the scene of the accident on foot while carrying his 2-year-old daughter and was arrested after deputies followed the sound of the toddler's cries.

A white power activist and Republican northern Idaho sheriff's candidate who held a cross-burning last week in the run-up to the primary election was a distant third in early vote counting.