By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

After months of waiting, the Panhandle Bike Ranch has achieved federal recognition from the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The designation is a milestone in founders Jennifer and Scott Kalbach’s yearslong journey to bring the park into regular operation — a goal that has been slowed by area op...

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

The city of Ponderay kicked off a project years in the making April 7, when crews began construction to remediate contamination at the “Black Rock” site on the shoreline of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail.

According to Ponderay officials, the long-awaited cleanup is being funded by a multi-purpose grant from t...

By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist

I was gifted my first Harry Potter book in third grade. It was wrapped alongside my siblings’ copies, with strict instructions to wait our turn and read them in order. As the youngest, and the obvious recipient of Book 3, I was assigned to wait (an everyday kind of injustice I’d come to expect).

I don’...

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

My grandparents told me stories about watching the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. My grandfather talked about experiencing it while we sat outside and watched the Hale-Bopp comet scream by in 1997. As a child, I had always hoped that I would one day get to experience a moon mission in the way that he had.

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By Timothy Braatz
Reader Contributor

Scott Herndon, who is running for the Idaho senate, poses as a “small-government conservative.” In reality, he yearns for an intrusive state government to impose his extremist ideology on Idaho. Herndon’s bullying violates an Idaho conservative principle: Don’t push me around!

Before District 1 voter...