Sara Marie Brunsell, 98

Sara Marie Brunsell, 98, passed away on Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Sandpoint, Idaho.

Bear activity prompts Tally Lake Campground closure

The Tally Lake Ranger District on the Flathead National Forest is temporarily closing the Tally Lake Campground and Day Use Area for public safety following several reports of bear activity this last week in the campground.

Bear activity prompts Tally Lake Campground closure

The Tally Lake Ranger District on the Flathead National Forest is temporarily closing the Tally Lake Campground and Day Use Area for public safety following several reports of bear activity this last week in the campground.

Tally Lake Campground closed due to bear activity

The Tally Lake Ranger District on the Flathead National Forest is temporarily closing the Tally Lake Campground and Day Use Area for public safety following several reports of bear activity this last week in the campground.

Sensing is believing

COEUR d’ALENE — Being in a busy shopping center to see Santa Claus can be overwhelming for kids and their parents.

PR Spartan Booster Club holding multiple fundraisers for sports, extracurriculars

A bingo night, a concert, and a coffee shop fundraiser will be taking place in the coming weeks.

India says US politicizing religious riots in which 30 died

NEW DELHI (AP) — India accused a U.S. government commission of politicizing communal violence in New Delhi that killed at least 30 people and injured more than 200 as President Donald Trump was visiting the country.

Youth Sports: Aug. 20, 2014

Golf, baseball,basketball and more

Osburn youth advances: Stephen Paul of Osburn won the boys 7-9 age division Sunday in subregional qualifying for the Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at The Golf Club at Hawks Prairie in Lacey, Wash.

Exact Occupy CdA site not yet known

By ALECIA WARREN

Vals roll past Plains and Troy

The Valkyries (6-2, 5-0) varsity girls basketball team has still yet to find an opponent in District 7B that can come close to topping them, and last week was no exception as they beat Troy on the road 57-12 and Plains in a home game 62-25.

Post Falls growth shows no easing

By BRIAN WALKER

Flying in December?

By KRISTI ALBERTSON

Lake County Justice Court

Teen center ramps up for school year

Attendance grows as kids spread word

SANDPOINT — By tomorrow afternoon, the upstairs space on the corner of Pine & Division will become one of the busiest after-school destinations in town. That’s when the Sandpoint Teen Center opens its doors for the fall season, serving meals, solving problems and seeking to instill a sense of respect in the middle- and high-school students who walk through the doors.

Federal checks and balances are inoperative

We are becoming painfully aware of the gradual shift of legal authority away from Congress to Federal Agencies not only generating highly restrictive laws but also ruthlessly enforcing them.  Meanwhile accountability has shifted to the Executive Branch.  Intended federal checks and balances have become inoperative; basically non-existent.  I have watched for years while our Congress has grown less and less effective, and these federal agencies have increased in numbers and strength. Our country has basically been taken over by non-elected, appointed individuals assuming tremendous power and basically reporting to a President ruling by edict.  The question is, how do “We the People” regain fair Constitutional power and control over our own government?

Federal checks and balances are inoperative

We are becoming painfully aware of the gradual shift of legal authority away from Congress to Federal Agencies not only generating highly restrictive laws but also ruthlessly enforcing them.  Meanwhile accountability has shifted to the Executive Branch.  Intended federal checks and balances have become inoperative; basically non-existent.  I have watched for years while our Congress has grown less and less effective, and these federal agencies have increased in numbers and strength. Our country has basically been taken over by non-elected, appointed individuals assuming tremendous power and basically reporting to a President ruling by edict.  The question is, how do “We the People” regain fair Constitutional power and control over our own government?

Search for survivor in Beirut rubble grips grieving nation

BEIRUT (AP) — Rescue workers used cranes, shovels and their bare hands in search operations that resumed early Friday in the rubble of a building that collapsed last month in Beirut’s catastrophic explosion, hoping to find a survivor after a pulsing signal was detected.

Community treasure

Polson Boys and Girls Club to open new 23,000-square-foot facility next week.

Tester: Corporations are not 'people'

Tester: Corporations are not 'people'