Senators push infrastructure bill a step closer to passage

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators hoisted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package over another hurdle late Sunday, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans pushing it closer to passage despite a few holdouts trying to derail one of President Joe Biden's top priorities.

The unusual launch of an All-American

Hannah-Gray Petro’s journey to the University of Vermont was, more or less, launched from a trampoline.

Mexico's president goes full-steam ahead with Mayan train

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula remember riding trains to visit relatives or sell their produce decades ago, so when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made a nostalgic pitch to build a “Mayan train” through the region's jungles the mainly indigenous residents were initially receptive to the idea.

PREP XC: Priest River boys defeat multiple 3A opponents at Ivan Benson Invite

Priest River boys defeat Kellogg, IC Academy, Bonners Ferry.

Ware scores 24 to lead Morgan St. over Lincoln (PA) 102-94

BALTIMORE (AP) — De’Torrion Ware drilled 6 of 8 3-pointers and scored 24 points and Morgan State topped Division II Lincoln (PA) 102-94 on Tuesday night.

Council OKs new impact fees

Resort: Increases could make proposed development cost-prohibitive

They would be assessed on new houses, apartments, condos, hotels, assisted living and nursing homes, churches and commercial development.

Bonner County News of Record - Oct. 29, 2021

Police log information for Sandpoint, Ponderay and Priest River police departments and the Bonner County Sheriff's Office.

Golden scores 21 as Richmond defeats George Mason 65-50

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Grant Golden had 21 points as Richmond topped George Mason 65-50 on Wednesday night.

Show of solidarity after blast as Lebanon braces for protest

BEIRUT (AP) — Senior officials from the Middle East and Europe started arriving in Lebanon on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the tiny country that suffered a deadly explosion this week that caused large-scale damage in the capital Beirut.

Golden scores 21 as Richmond defeats George Mason 65-50

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Grant Golden had 21 points as Richmond topped George Mason 65-50 on Wednesday night.

County rescinds permit for Whistlestop Retreat on Lake Five

The Flathead County Commissioners on Sept. 30 voted to rescind a major land-use permit for the Whistlestop Retreat on Lake Five.

Legals for January, 5 2024

Ware scores 24 to lead Morgan St. over Lincoln (PA) 102-94

BALTIMORE (AP) — De’Torrion Ware drilled 6 of 8 3-pointers and scored 24 points and Morgan State topped Division II Lincoln (PA) 102-94 on Tuesday night.

Asia Today: Fewer cases in Melbourne, new surge in India

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, has moved close to easing severe lockdown restrictions after recording only 14 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday.

SPOT bus budget deficit could mean cuts to service

Would likely impact service in other areas, including Boundary County

The Selkirks-Pend Oreille Transit Authority is facing a $45,000 budget deficiency from the city of Sandpoint, which may severely decrease its hours and rides in the city.

Craters of the Moon: An extraordinary Idaho landscape, living laboratory

A Boise taxidermist by trade, Robert Limbert’s explorations and depictions of Idaho one hundred years ago helped to establish one of Idaho’s most unique and vast monuments and preserves. “The 'Valley of the Moon' lies in a region literally combed with underground caves and passages, bewildering in their immensity, mystifying in their variety of strange formations, where there are natural bridges as yet unknown to geographers, where bear tracks hundreds of years old may be traced for miles across cinder flats,” he described.

Northwest Notes Jan. 9, 2025

The new five-year contract, which was approved by the Idaho State Board of Education in December, keeps Dickey at the helm of Boise State Athletics by adding three years to his original five-year deal.

Council approves sale of old armory site

Ohio-based builder plans to break ground in June for hotel-casino complex

I know you are, but what am I? Already missing Pee-wee

Paul Reubens' iconic character lives on in our sense of joy, playfulness, wonder

Every winter or late fall, when I peek out my window and see the first snows blanketing North Idaho, I call my mom to announce: “It’s snowing, Pee-wee!” If she sees the snow first, she calls or texts me the Pee-wee line. We’ve done this for years, a throwback to the absolute joy Pee-wee and his friends experience as it snows on the playhouse just in time for Christmas.

Youth Sports Feb. 4, 2026: Bowling, soccer, gymnastics, futsal and more

Scores, news, photos from youth sports teams, leagues, etc.