It seems to be a trend that as political regimes — even whole civilizations — begin to collapse, people not only keep laughing but laugh louder. The uproarious games and entertainments of the ...

For me, the Oscars are basically the Super Bowl. My family has treated them that way for years. We dress up in tuxes and gowns, walk a makeshift red carpet down my aunt and uncle’s hallway, and spend ...

The Panida Theater board of trustees’ monthly meeting March 5 drew a few more spectators than usual. The Little Theater was filled to capacity, with others standing along the back and side walls to ...

Kiosks and permit system rolling out by the summer By Zach HagadoneReader Staff After more than a year of planning, deliberation and consultation, the city of Sandpoint took the final step toward ...

Loris Michael (Aug. 21, 1940 – June 22, 2025) The world forever changed on August 21, 1940, when Loris Jeanette Michael entered it on a kitchen table in Ansley, Neb. and changed again on June 22, 2025 ...

TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022. GO READ IT» WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021. GO READ IT» THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, ...

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 ...

Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel of ...

Editor’s Note: In this, the fifth and final article on the stand-off at Ruby Ridge, we will share the close of the trial, the verdict and the aftermath of this incident. Special thanks goes out to ...

Editor’s Note: In the early morning of Aug. 21, 1992, six U.S. Deputy Marshals moved onto a steep, mountainous piece of property off of Ruby Creek Road near Naples, Idaho on what was later termed a ...

Our legislative session kicked off in Idaho this week. Buckle up. Last year, more than 1,000 bills were written, 789 bills published, about 350 voted on, 322 became law and all in fewer than 90 days.

North Idaho may soon have a connection to a worldwide effort to launch a space-based internet service into every nook and cranny of the planet. Starlink, an initiative by private aerospace ...