The Pend Oreille Arts Council’s newest installment of its First Friday Series, Confluence: Six Women in Contemporary Practice, will debut Friday, May 1 with an opening reception at the POAC Gallery ...

It’s a weird confession to make, but I love politics and, by extension, am often fond of politicians. It’s fashionable to ignore both at best and proudly despise them at worst, but regardless of those ...

Some people are just built differently. While most bicyclists avoid gravel roads like the plague, riders in the Panhandle Gravel Series just say, “Bring it on.” Gravel riding has exploded in ...

My first puzzle was a large, 10-piece dinosaur print big enough for my first-grade self to sleep on. I took it apart and remade it over and over in my secret fort, loving how the picture could break ...

For a provocateur, Scott Herndon is unexpectedly calm and articulate. Sporting a long beard and speaking in a measured tone, he communicates philosophical ideas that, if overheard piecemeal, might ...

The gunners of the B-17 Flying Fortress were a different breed. These men endured unimaginably low temperatures, near-constant bombardment by heavy ordnance and cramped conditions to do a job that ...

The Idaho Recreation and Parks Association has named Emily Strizich as the recipient of the 2026 Professional Award for Parks, Trails or Conservation, recognizing her work building and maintaining ...

While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting some things right, or at least half right, and just as many wrong (or half ...

Sandpoint City Council members convened in a special meeting Nov. 12 to address the municipality’s longstanding non-discrimination ordinance, which Mayor Jeremy Grimm proposed should be amended to ...

They don’t make them like Viggo Mortensen anymore. The soft-spoken, notably un-Hollywood actor, photographer, poet and lover of North Idaho is just about as far from the typical “Hollywood star” as ...

With the filing deadline to seek office in the Tuesday, May 19 primary election passed, voters in Idaho Legislative Dist. 1 will have a full slate of candidates to choose from. Every legislative seat ...

Editor’s Note: In the first two installments of this series, we covered the events leading up to the Stand-Off at Ruby Ridge that occurred near Naples, Idaho in Aug. 1992. In this third piece, we will ...