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Kootenai County is facing a federal lawsuit from AT&T after it nixed a proposed cell tower off Potlatch Hill Road.

From hundreds of stories published by The Press in 2023, newsroom staff carved out a list of the top 10 issues, challenges and events that Press reporters covered over the past 12 months.

COEUR d’ALENE — Children’s Village may not receive the $291,000 in federal COVID-19 rescue funds that Kootenai County approved last year for payroll subsidies, after the county’s legal counsel determined the nonprofit is not eligible for the money.

Beginning in 2021, Idaho Governor Brad Little began allocating funds for projects that reduce phosphorus loading to Coeur d’Alene Lake under the Leading Idaho Initiative. Since then, a total of $33 million has been allocated for this purpose.

Following a judge’s order, Kootenai County commissioners cast a split vote Tuesday to restore Assessor BELA Kovacs’ salary, which the board cut in half last year after Kovacs failed to perform some of his statutory duties.