Jim and Margaret Toomey bought the first two tickets to Schweitzer 32 years ago and now have a run named after them: Toomey's Trail. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
The Bonner County Sheriff's Department wants to team up with area teenagers and train the county's first all-youth search-and-rescue unit.
The program, called Explorer Search and Rescue, is being launched today in conjunction with the Boy Scouts of America.
Festival at Sandpoint organizers admit building a 10,000-square-foot stage over the Pend Oreille River may sound a bit farfetched.
Then again, few ever expected the festival to blossom into the economic blockbuster it is now, attracting top stars like Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett.
The annual polar bear plunge, an icy dip into Lake Pend Oreille, appears to be sunk.
The Chamber of Commerce has scrapped the seven-year tradition - one of the most popular events of January's Winter Carnival. Organizers said the frigid swim is too dangerous and no one will provide liability insurance for it.
Charles Stidwell, the man thousands of Bonner County residents knew as Mr. Education, died in Coeur d'Alene this week.
Stidwell was 94. He spent 46 years as a teacher and principal in Bonner County.
Businesses in Sandpoint's Cedar Street Bridge were told they'd have to move out at the end of the month so Coldwater Creek can expand. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
