New study shows the durable skills Idaho employers are looking for

Idaho Business for Education has teamed up with America Succeeds and Emsi Burning Glass to promote the “High Demand for Durable Skills” report regarding which durable skills employers want their employees to have.

Containment nears on Bee Top Fire

Additional resources diverted to Consalus Fire

With containment of the Bee Top Fire approaching 90%, control of the fire is being returned to Idaho Panhandle National Forests officials. Over on the Consalus Fire, the lightning-caused blaze inched upward to 444 acres and some of the resources from the Bee Top are being diverted to the Pend Oreille County fire.

Law enforcement responds to fatal crash near Eastport

Monday, Dec. 21 at approximately 9:37 a.m., law enforcement responded to a fatality crash on Highway 95 at milepost 532 just outside Eastport.

Law enforcement responds to fatal crash near Eastport

Monday, Dec. 21 at approximately 9:37 a.m., law enforcement responded to a fatality crash on Highway 95 at milepost 532 just outside Eastport.

Open letter to Bonners Ferry residents

Do you have something you no longer want or need and plan on hauling to the landfill but it is still in decent shape? WAIT!!! There is an alternative to filling up the landfill! One our county`s best kept secrets til now. It`s the Bonners Ferry Freecycle!

Guest opinion seemed self-rightous

Last week’s Guest Opinion demonstrates the kind of thinking that influenced the school board’s decision to not show President Obama’s real time address to the nation’s school children.

Four Badgers earn district, IML cross-country honors

Three Bonners Ferry cross country team members were honored recently by coaches in North Idaho’s District I.

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Many leave Facebook for alternative social media sites

Many conservatives have chosen to leave social media sites, Facebook and Twitter for new obscure platforms such as Parler, MeWe and USA.Life, after the significant crackdown of misinformation, shared across platforms.

Naples Fire District

It seems South Boundary Fire Protection District is a contender for receiving federal stimulus money to build a third fire station.

Judge could soon set trial date for man charged in killings of 4 University of Idaho students

So far, 2nd District Judge John Judge has not set a trial date, noting that the case is particularly complicated in part because prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty if there is a conviction.

Protect the Kootenai for current generations and those in the future

A valued resource, its clean water, and the life it sustains.

Trump has become the last Republican standing in the 2024 primary

Here's how he bulldozed the field

All Class Reunion awesome!

Well it happened as I imagined it would! Main Street filled up with over a thousand people on Saturday, Aug, 3 for the “All School Reunion.”

News update from Boundary County Emergency Management

The snow storm is over, the roads are getting better, and slowly members of our community are digging out.

Green-Leaf Salad with Flowers and Lemon Dressing

Green-Leaf Salad with Flowers and Lemon Dressing

Four local Coldwell Banker agents honored

BONNERS FERRY — Bonners Ferry’s locally owned Realtors office, Coldwell Banker North Woods Realty, wishes to congratulate four of its agents for achieving the level of International Sterling Society with Coldwell Banker for the 2018 production.

Boundary County Christmas gift exchange announced

The Boundary County Christmas gift exchange is coming to town.

John August Schlener

After a life’s journey of 93 years, John August Schlener went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday morning, November 29, 2009, in Liberty Lake, WA. Funeral Services will be held on Friday, December 6, 2009 at 11:00 am in the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home with interment will be in the Moravia Cemetery.

COLUMN: Public education and democracy

When the USA first became a country, most citizens were farmers