Bonner County News

KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho -The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department initiated a search and rescue call out for a lost hiker from Spirit Lake Idaho Saturday night.

The Bonner County Sheriff's Office has identified a body found floating in Lake Pend Oreille near Hope, Idaho, as a woman from Troy, Mont.

A Bonner County prosecutor has filed a motion dismissing charges brought against a 30-year-old northern Idaho man who was accused of trying to redeem a stolen lottery ticket.

The SilverWing Flap In Sandpoint, Internet-wielding locals have been stirred up recently by a story in the Bonner County Bee about the county commission's move to buy out the developers of a high-end residential development at the Sandpoint airport.

Overnight temperatures will likely warm up this week, but that could mean rain - or even snowfall.

The former Bonner County human resources director won an out-of-court settlement in her federal court lawsuit against the county on a claim she was unfairly forced from her job.

A Bellevue, Wash., man is the latest of about half a dozen people nationwide to accept plea agreements in an investigation of Swiss banking giant UBS.

For tickets to the Fall Harvest Ball, Saturday from 6-10 p.m. at Sandpoint Events Center, call Karel Miller at 946-6646 or contact the food bank at 263-3663. Tickets are $50 per person.

Pop goes ObamamaniaThey cashed out retirement funds to build their business during the 2008 presidential campaign.

SANDPOINT, Idaho - A former sheriff's deputy is claiming responsibility for posting manipulated images of President Barack Obama wearing a Nazi uniform on the doors of three northern Idaho schools.

Authorities in North Idaho need your help finding a runaway 12 year old girl in Bonner County.

BONNER COUNTY, Idaho- Right now Bonner County Sheriff's officials are looking for a 12 year-old girl missing from Sagle, Idaho.

Skye Rhiannon Causer, 12, missing from her home in Bonner County Sept. 22, 2009.

Two homes were temporarily evacuated and U.S. Highway 95 was closed for about nine hours after 2,000 gallons of gas spilled from an overturned tanker Sunday.

A northern Idaho woman who pleaded guilty to defrauding a Sandpoint nonprofit that helps cancer patients and their families has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Schumacher aims to promote behavior modification. Seven years ago Karen Schumacher visited a prison in Washington and saw inmates interacting with dogs.

Criminal charges won't be filed against a former Sandpoint Police detective in northern Idaho who authorities say sent sexually explicit photos and video with his cell phone to a woman he had previously arrested during a methamphetamine trafficking investigation.

A Sandpoint man died Friday from injuries he received a week earlier in a car accident south of Sandpoint, the Idaho State Police said.

MONDAY IT'S SUMMER. Wifey and I are up at Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho, Bonner County.

One in 10 workers in the Coeur d'Alene metropolitan area is unemployed, giving it the highest jobless rate of any metro area in Idaho.