The City of Sandpoint has scheduled its annual branch pickup week for Monday, April 20 through Friday, April 24. All residents must have branches ready by 7 a.m. on April 20, as crews will only pass ...

The Festival at Sandpoint announced another addition to the 2026 summer concert series with Aaron Lewis and the Stateliners. The Vermont-born powerhouse country band will perform on Friday, July 31 at ...

Sandpoint City Hall announced some big administrative changes in the past week: first, that Meri Jane Bohn would take over as city clerk following the retirement of Melissa Ward from the position, ...

LPO Rep debuts Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Debuting their tenth production — and first play by William Shakespeare — the Lake Pend Oreille Repertory ...

Big changes are in store for how the city of Sandpoint regulates short-term rentals — or doesn’t regulate them — as Mayor Jeremy Grimm and Planning and Community Development Director Jason Welker ...

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 ...

More than 1,600 books across 32 states were banned during the 2021-’22 school year. In Idaho, 26 titles were banned across three school districts, underscoring a trend spearheaded primarily by ...

James Wesley, Rawles was not interviewed for this story. Citing bad experiences with the Coeur d’Alene Press and Spokesman-Review, among others, Rawles responded to my request with an email detailing ...

For longtime North Idaho locals, there are three topics that frequently come up in conversation: how fast Sandpoint is changing and growing; downtown traffic; and the infamous winter of 1996-’97, when ...

Kaniksu Community Health recently announced that Joseph Wassif will serve as director of psychiatry, leading the development of its Psychiatry Department, which is part of KCH’s Certified Community ...

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 ...