Bonner County News Archives

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.

Sandpoint Mulls Fluoridation Issue Posted by DFO at 5:16 p.m. on September 1 Comments Item: Fluoridation question could turn up on city ballot/Conor Christofferson, Bonner County Bee More Info: Sandpoint, like many communities in the United States, has added small amounts of fluoride to its water supply since the early 1950s.

A man who is serving a minimum of 10 years in prison for breaking a cast-iron skillet over his former wife's head says he should get a new sentence because his defense attorney was ineffective.

Bonner County Emergency Management officials have evacuated about ten blocks and closed the Pend Oreille River around the wastewater treatment plant in Priest River due to a chemical spill.

Residents and business owners in downtown Priest River said they were told by firefighters to evacuate the area due to a possible chemical spill at the town's water plant.

Officials in Priest River confirm an evacuation is underway in the downtown area of Priest River due to a chemical spill at the city water plant.