PRIEST RIVER — Stakeholders in the local waterways had the chance to hear firsthand about conditions and projects affecting the lakes and rivers from a range of agencies during a Lakes Commission meeting Thursday at the Beardmore Building in Priest River.
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PRIEST RIVER — An elderly couple lost their home and narrowly avoided injury after a fire started with a vehicle in the driveway and quickly engulfed the entire residence Tuesday night near Priest River.
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PRIEST RIVER — Authorities are still attempting to make contact with a man who reportedly suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday night near Priest River.
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PRIEST RIVER — More than 100 protesters gathered Thursday around a local veteran’s home over fears the Department of Veterans Affairs was attempting to take the man’s firearms.
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PRIEST LAKE — Residents of Priest Lake are concerned their recreation season could be cut short this summer due to lower-than-normal pool elevations caused by severe drought conditions in North Idaho.
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NEWPORT, Wash. — An explosion ripped through the Zodiac Aerospace plant in Newport Tuesday night, sending five employees to the hospital and forcing nearby residents to evacuate the area.
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NEWPORT, Wash. — Eleven people are recovering from injuries received from an explosion that put an end to operations at the Zodiac Aerospace plant in Newport on Tuesday.
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NEWPORT, Wash. — An explosion ripped through the Zodiac Aerospace plant in Newport Tuesday night, sending five employees to the hospital and forcing nearby residents to evacuate the area.
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PRIEST RIVER — Among the most surprising findings of the Idaho Department of Fish & Game’s study of the Priest Lake fishery: There are far less lake trout in Priest Lake than previously thought.
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PRIEST RIVER — In yet another twist in West Bonner County School District’s Zone 5 trustee election, a recount on Thursday revealed a true winner in the race after initial numbers showed a tie between two of the candidates.
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PRIEST RIVER — The West Bonner County School District will be able to conduct business as usual for the next two years after voters approved a $3 million levy proposal on Tuesday by a margin of 1,023 votes in favor to 743 against, or 58 percent.
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PRIEST RIVER — The Priest Lake Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forest held a meeting Tuesday night at the Priest River Event Center to continue its collaboration with the public on a proposal to address forest health and hazardous health concerns in the Jasper Mountain area.
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LACLEDE — It was a repeat sweep for the Bulldogs at the 4A Region 1 cross country championships on Thursday at the beautiful but rain-soaked Riley Creek Campgrounds in Laclede.
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PRIEST RIVER — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives gave a lesson in “Albeni Dam 101” during Wednesday night’s public meeting designed to outline the current and upcoming water management operations of Lake Pend Oreille.
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PRIEST RIVER — The final tally on the vote for the West Bonner County School District’s $3 million one-year supplemental levy was so close it left many calling for a recount.
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PRIEST RIVER — West Bonner County School District voters will be asked to hit the voting booths a few months early for the district’s annual maintenance and operations levy.
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PRIEST RIVER — It took every second to decide a winner in Tuesday night’s Intermountain League match-up between Priest River and Bonners Ferry, but missed opportunities down the stretch by the Badgers would give the host Spartans the edge in the end, 36-35.
PRIEST LAKE — The cost over the next two decades to protect old-growth habitat for endangered woodland caribou in northern Idaho and northeast Washington state will be about $1.5 million, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s draft economic analysis.
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PRIEST LAKE — Federal officials say the cost over the next two decades to protect old-growth habitat for endangered woodland caribou in northern Idaho and northeast Washington state will be about $1.5 million.
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SANDPOINT — Punches, kicks, holds and legal elbows that led to some blood all let Saturday night’s Sandpoint Standoff live up to the Livin’ Guilty 9 name — after a plethora of guilty pleasures and great mixed martial arts action was presented to a near packed house at the Bonner …
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NEWPORT — In a made-for-television moment, a kidnapped man forced into the trunk of a car in Montana freed himself on a Pend Oreille County highway early Sunday, leading to two arrests.
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PRIEST RIVER — A busy day during the burning season is nothing new for the West Pend Oreille Fire Department, but two separate blazes left firefighters scrambling to battle structure fires around the Priest River area early Monday afternoon.
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WASHINGTON, DC — In a historic and unprecedented decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with a Priest Lake couple in a property rights case, ruling that they have the right to go court and challenge an Environmental Protection Agency order that blocked construction of their new home and threatened …
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COOLIN — With more than 375,000 acres of land seemingly “up for grabs” upon the designation of critical habitat for caribou in the southern Selkirk Mountains — nearly 200 citizens turned out to show their concerns at Tuesday’s coordination meeting between Bonner County commissioners and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service …
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PRIEST RIVER — The visiting Badgers started slow but wouldn’t back down from the top ranked Spartans Tuesday night, digging an early 13-4 deficit in the first quarter before coming back to keep the game tight on the way to an eventual 69-55 loss.
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PRIEST RIVER — The proposed Peninsula Valley waste collection site is a go after it was approved by a unanimous vote of approval of the Bonner County Planning & Zoning Commission during a public hearing Tuesday night in Priest River.
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