KAYLEE PETERSON: I think I noticed immediately that my job was to be an out-and-proud Democrat in really kind of hostile conservative spaces — places, where they haven’t had a Democratic presence in a ...

But while few on the hard right in Idaho have been willing to publicly defend Reilly, few have been willing to explicitly condemn him either. InvestigateWest reached out to the 10 Idaho legislators ...

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Inaction to renew the state Child Tax Credit will increase the tax burden on middle-income families. The Idaho Legislature failed to include a renewal of the state’s CTC, which is set to expire at the ...

May’s not even over yet, and it has not disappointed. The first days of May were the tailend of our Ireland trip. I was just home long enough to unpack and commence baking a tres leches cake for 40 ...

Engelhardt, Brown and Rose all interviewed for the assessor seat during a public meeting May 30, during which attendees — including elected officials and Assessor’s Office staff members — repeatedly ...

The winter began with a bang on Nov. 19, 1996 when about four inches of snow fell throughout the Inland Northwest, followed later in the day by more than an inch of freezing rain that coated trees, ...

However, Gov. Brad Little signed a bill March 27 proposed by Sen. Scott Herndon, R-Sagle, that imposes a number of limitations on the rights of leaseholders of public property regarding the ...

The original Sandpoint Reader was launched in 2004 by Zach Hagadone, John Reuter, Chris DeCleur and contributing writer Ben Olson. An alternative weekly started on a shoe-string budget, fueled by a ...

“We don’t have a football team. We don’t have a pep squad. What we have here are hearts and minds that have had challenges, and having had those challenges, sometimes that makes them much more ...

The success of the WBCSD in gaining voters’ approval for an additional $2,353,440.60 per year for two years made headlines both locally and statewide, as the district’s yearslong financial struggles ...

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