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News >  Higher education

NIC’s Workforce Training Center expands to Sandpoint

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 3, 2025

North Idaho College Workforce Training Center, based in Post Falls, is bringing career-building programs to residents of Idaho’s two northernmost counties.

News >  Local business

Gordy’s Sichuan Cafe closes for good

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 3, 2025

Rising costs and dwindling patronage mean a longtime South Hill favorite is shuttering.

News >  ID Government

Bonner County settles and apologizes to second man trespassed from meetings

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 2, 2025

Bonner County issued an apology Tuesday to a resident who commissioners trespassed from public meetings early last year.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

72-year-old California man dies while snowboarding at Schweitzer

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 2, 2025

A 72-year-old snowboarder was found unresponsive and pronounced dead Monday at Schweitzer ski resort.

News >  Washington

Temporary labyrinth repurposes used Christmas trees in Stevens County

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 31, 2024

CHEWELAH, Wash. – A labyrinth of more than 100 recycled Christmas trees offers a special post-holiday experience and a moment of peace at the new year.

News >  Washington

Difference Makers: Webb’s Slough boat race invigorates town of St. John

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 16, 2025

ST. JOHN, Wash. – For two weekends a summer, crowds descend upon this out-of-the-way Palouse town to witness high-speed boating action.

News >  Transportation

Getting There: Columbia River Treaty updates could force temporary closures of Inchelium Ferry

Mon., Dec. 30, 2024

The rural ferry linking Stevens County to the Colville Reservation could go out of service more often under updates to the Columbia River Treaty.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Kalispel Tribe identifies suspect in moccasin theft, offers $25,000 reward

Sun., Dec. 29, 2024

In the middle of the night four years ago, a man stole five baby moccasins and a leather glove from a display case at Northern Quest Resort & Casino in Airway Heights. The Kalispel Tribe and the family that owns the items want them back.

News >  Higher education

Complaint alleges disparities for female athletes at NIC, but newer numbers show equity

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 27, 2024

A formal complaint filed by a Sandpoint man alleges North Idaho College is not providing equal opportunities for female college students to play sports under Title IX.

News >  Idaho

Lady Liberty returns to Sandpoint

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 25, 2024

SANDPOINT – After a three-month vacation and rehab, Lake Pend Oreille’s human-sized Statue of Liberty is back in place with a fresh sheen and ready for photo ops.

News >  Transportation

Getting There: Study approved for Long Bridge replacement on U.S. 95

Mon., Dec. 23, 2024

SANDPOINT – The 2-mile bridge connecting U.S. Highway 95 over Lake Pend Oreille could be replaced and expanded sooner than previously expected.

News >  ID Government

Bonner County apologizes to man put under citizen’s arrest at commission meetings

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 11, 2024

Bonner County has agreed to pay a resident $200,000 to settle claims of unlawful battery, arrest and imprisonment after he was detained during a county commissioners meeting earlier this year.

News >  Pacific NW

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommends adding monarch butterflies to endangered species list

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 11, 2024

After rapid population decline in recent decades, the monarch butterfly could soon have federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.

News >  Transportation

Getting There: ITD proposes 13 alternatives to expand Rathdrum Prairie highways

Mon., Dec. 9, 2024

The Idaho Transportation Department is looking for public input on more than a dozen proposals to reconfigure the roads and highways surrounding Rathdrum Prairie in Kootenai County.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Clark Fork scammed $480,000 by fraudster posing as contractor

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 6, 2024

A small town in North Idaho has been scammed out of half a million dollars by a man posing as its construction contractor.

News >  Agriculture

Newman Lake irrigation district considers hefty rate hike; small farmers say they can’t afford it

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 4, 2024

A small public water utility in the Newman Lake area says it needs to nearly double its billing rate to keep up with operating costs. After community pushback, the board will consider a less severe – but still substantial – increase by cutting into its contingency fund.

News >  Idaho

New Jude Law film ‘The Order’ tells story of Coeur d’Alene FBI agent who hunted violent white supremacists in the 1980s

Sun., Dec. 1, 2024

Forty years ago this week, FBI agents raided a safe house on Whidbey Island that led to a standoff with Robert Mathews, the leader of a white supremacist movement born in the Inland Northwest.

News >  Spokane

Women of the Year: Margo Hill-Ferguson is an advocate for Native communities and the Spokane River

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 3, 2024

As Spokane celebrated the 50th anniversary of Expo ’74 this summer, Margo Hill-Ferguson saw it as an opportunity – as it was with the original fair – to tell the story of local tribes and the work they do for the environment.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Two men convicted of murder in Colville Reservation double homicide

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 25, 2024

A Spokane jury convicted two men Monday of all charges related to the October 2022 killings of siblings Jeremy Neal and Gale Neal in Keller, Washington.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Jury enters deliberations for Colville Reservation double homicide trial

UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 22, 2024

Attorneys made closing arguments Friday afternoon in a trial accusing two men of killing two people and shooting a tribal police officer on the Colville Indian Reservation two years ago.

News >  Higher education

Gonzaga students and faculty protest war in Gaza, call on university to divest

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 21, 2024

About 100 people joined a protest against the Israel-Hamas War at Gonzaga’s campus Thursday, demanding the university cut ties with weapons manufacturers.

News >  Idaho

Here’s a look at development around Schweitzer ski resort as ski season kicks off

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 20, 2024

SCHWEITZER VILLAGE, Idaho – With fresh snow this week from a bomb cyclone, the ski season at Schweitzer will be off to a good start when it begins Friday.

News >  Idaho

Defect in Albeni Falls Dam spillway gate could take years to fully replace. North Idaho residents worry a way of life is at stake

Sun., Nov. 17, 2024

OLDTOWN, Idaho – A damaged spillway gate will make it a little harder for a federal dam to control the water level in Lake Pend Oreille for the foreseeable future.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Murder trial begins for two men suspected in crime spree across Colville Reservation

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 25, 2024

A trial began Monday for two men accused in a crime spree that spanned two Indian reservations in Idaho and Washington, and left two people dead and one tribal police officer injured two years ago.

News >  Military

On Veterans Day, Cheney family honors grandfather who died this year

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 11, 2024

“Hoo-pai, Shoo-pai,” the Alent family chanted the Polish phrase under their umbrellas at the grave of their grandfather Monday morning at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake.