Category: Sports & Outdoors

Lady Badgers take the win AGAIN tonight against the Kellogg Wildcats, 49-21!! The Badgers host the Moscow Bears at 7 p.m. Friday, December 6 … Go Badgers!

Welcome back, Bonners Ferry Badger fans! It’s basketball season again. I have heard some great things about the season  ahead and just yesterday I got some intel from head coach […]

By Piper Banning Badger Sports It was a long week for the Badgers this week. Cross Country and Volleyball had districts, the girls and boy’s varsity soccer teams went to […]

By Piper Banning The Badger boys win another shutout 2-0 over Grangeville this afternoon! They’ll play the championship game vs. CdA Charter Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Post Falls! Let’s […]

By Piper Banning In Europe, the game of soccer is called football. In Post Falls Monday in game 1 of the 2024 Intermountain League District4A boys soccer, the Badgers put […]

By Piper Banning We are small, but fierce.  The Bonners Ferry Badgers have, since infancy, housed athletes in the four walls of each school in Boundary County, some of them […]

Water woes continue to plague Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge with the one remaining pump not operating at full capacity. The south end of the managed waterfowl hunt has achieved desirable […]

Kootenai Valley Rifle & Pistol Club shooters have won local and state matches, earned college scholarships, a place on the line at the Junior Olympics, and produced nationally recognized NRA […]

By Piper Banning Badger Sports Reporter Last Monday and Tuesday were big for the Boys varsity soccer team with a win 6-0 versus Priest River on Monday and the very […]

Community Chat meetings in Bonners Ferry regarding Chronic Wasting Disease are done unless\until additional information is available to share with the public. With the Unit 1 surveillance hunt now over […]

        By Badger Reporter Piper Banning It was a busy week for the Badgers.  So busy in fact, that some of the scores and stats didn’t make […]

Homecoming is the perfect day to announce our next 2024 Bonners Ferry Badger Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, Badger fan, Ron Smith, born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1938. He […]

HOME COMING!! Friday, September 13 10 a.m. – Float judging 11 a.m. – Parade Roll Call and Line Up Noon – Parade (Floats to BFHS after) 12:30 p.m. – Tailgate […]

By Badger Reporter Piper Banning It was a busy week for Badgers sports. On Tuesday the boys’ varsity soccer team won against their rival, the Timberlake Tigers, with a shutout, […]

By Piper Banning Badger Sports We have a win, ladies and gentlemen! The JV Badger football team dominated against the Eureka Lions with 28-0 win last night in their second […]

Swing into action for a healthier community at the annual Fry Healthcare Foundation (FHF) Golf Tournament! This year’s tournament tees off on Friday, September 6, with all proceeds focused on […]

Over the next few weeks, the Bonners Ferry Badger Athletic Hall of Fame will introduce and share biographies of our 2024 inaugural inductees to the Bonners Ferry Badger Athletic Hall […]

9B.News Badger sports reporter Piper Banning is asking help from Badger fans Saturday as she’s competing in the only sport with an away meet … she and the Badgers will […]

The Badger eighth grade football team needs more players! If you are interested, go to the Bonners Ferry Youth Football Facebook page, and print out a registration form! To learn […]

The storied 2024 Idaho 3A Basketball Champion Bonners Ferry Badger Boys gathered Monday at the Kootenai River Inn for one final team get-together to pick up their championship rings as […]

By Katie Banning “The Outta Shapers” of Bonners Ferry sponsored by Turner Plumbing, competed in Hoopfest in Spokane over the weekend, the largest three on three basketball tournament in the […]

If turnout at this year’s Bonners Ferry High School Volleyball Camp June 011-13 is any indication, the Badger volleyball program stands to be in pretty good shape for the next […]

Boundary Community Hospital (BCH), in partnership with Boundary County School District 101, is proud to host its annual Free Sports Physicals event to ensure all Boundary County students have the […]

Inspire Girls Basketball Club would like to congratulate Markynn Pluid for signing to play basketball at Snow College, Ephraim, Utah, with a full ride scholarship. A Badger in high school, […]

Badger Basketball Camp 2024 is coming right up, but the deadline to register, June 5, is upon us for those campers who want to be guaranteed the t-shirt. There will […]

In his first outing of the season, Caelem Stewart, 11, took a checkered flag Friday at Stateline Speedway, Post Falls, winning the eight-lap (two mile) B Heat. He finished the […]

By Piper Banning Badger Reporter Timberlake may have taken the Intermountain League titles in boys and girls track May 9-10, but the Badgers, finishing second in both, will be well […]

Valley View’s fastest fifth grader will be racing Saturday night at Stateline Speedway, 1349 N Beck Rd, Post Falls, and on Sunday, Caelem Stewart will be at the Community Restorium, […]

Photos and stat sheets courtesy of Kelly Hinthorn The Bonners Ferry Badgers met the Timberlake Tigers on the green at Twin Lakes Village Golf Course in Rathdrum Monday for the […]

By Piper Banning Badger Sports Reporter For Badger junior Asher Williams, the 2023/24 basketball season was special, filled as it was with remarkable achievements, including the Badger basketball team’s first […]

By Piper Banning and Mike Weland Photos by Martha Fowler The Bonners Ferry FFA Chapter brought the bray back to the Badger Den Wednesday night to showcase some of the […]

By T.J. Ross Idaho Fish and Game If you are one of the many anglers who participated in the 2024 Kootenai River Angler Science Program, thank you for investing time […]

The Boundary County Sheriff’s Office will once again offer an OHV (Off-Highway Vehicle) training course for youth this spring in time for off-rod fun through the summer. Idaho State law […]

Idaho Fish and Game crews are busy these days across the state, stocking lakes with around 225,000 catchable rainbow trout. Over 33,000 of the 10 to 12 fish will be […]

By Piper Banning Badger Sports Reporter Boundary County Middle School teacher Kelly Hinthorn attended the North Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame awards banquet at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Saturday night, […]

By Piper Banning Badger Sports Reporter The Badgers fell in the opening game of a doubleheader against the Sandpoint Bulldogs Thursday, but took advantage of errors in game two to […]

By Piper Banning Badger Sports Reporter The Badger JV boys hosted the Priest River Spartans in a doubleheader Tuesday that saw a little bit of all four seasons over the […]

By Piper Banning Badger sports reporter Bonners Ferry High School senior Savannah Rickter started wrestling boys at age six and did amazingly well at it right up until her sophomore […]

The Washington State Junior Indoor Rifle Championships took place at the Spokane and Tacoma ranges on March 9. Kootenai Valley Jr Rifle team member, Kyalynn Comer traveled to the Spokane […]

Badger junior Asher Williams, who averaged 26 points per game in the 2024 Idaho State 3A Boys Basketball Championship Tournament, hitting 55-percent of his shots from the field and 46-percent of the shots he fired off from three point land and who averaged two steals per game not only led his team to its first-ever championship trophy, he was named to the 3A All Tournament Team as tournament Most Valuable Player.

By Piper Banning Badger Sports Reporter The Badgers walked the knifes edge in Nampa this memorable Saturday, March 2, but the tougher the challenge the deeper they dug down, and […]

By Piper Banning The Badgers pulled out a squeaker, coming from a single point lead with two minutes to go to a 64-57 victory! Asher Williams accounted for 31 Badger […]

Brodie Rice hit a three pointer at the buzzer to put the Badgers ahead 17-12 going into the second quarter, and the Badgers are up two, 28-26 at the half […]

The Timberlake Tigers fought hard tonight, and the Badgers struggled the the opening half, down 4-10 at one point before tying it up at 19-19 at the end of the first quarter. The Badgers took the lead about half way through the second quarter, 27-25 …

Tonight the Badger varsity boys faced off against the Timberlake Tigers in the first game of the district championship. Eli Blackmore started off the Badgers scoring streak with a beautiful three point shot from the top of the key to kick start the first quarter. With 44 seconds in the half, senior Wyatt Smith from out of nowhere stole the ball for a turnover and another two points to bring the half to an end at 46-24.

By Piper Banning It’s a busy night for Badger basketball as the high school boys launch districts at home tonight at 6 p.m. and the Boundary County Middle School boys […]

The Badger boys varsity basketball team are the Intermountain league champions with a regular season record of 18-3 and 2-0 league, and they’ll host their only league opponent, the Timberlake Tigers in a two-game district playoff next week, with the first game set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 20. They will then again face off against the Tigers at 6 p.m. Thursday, February 22, again on the Badger’s home court.

By Piper Banning The Badgers cheerleaders hit the road for districts this weekend in Lewiston, and as the bus was preparing to leave, head coach Teri Hinrichs said, “We are […]

It’s down to the wire for the Bonners Ferry Badger girls, who fell to Timberlake Wednesday, 46-43, forcing a third playoff game tonight at 6 p.m. at Timberlake to decide […]

Daphne Garberoglio, 17, plays piano and loves to dance. She’s a bookworm. She loves to train and ride horses, to compete in barrel racing. A homeschooled high school junior, she […]

The Eureka Lions boys basketball team made that long 120-mile trip to Bonners Ferry Monday, January 29, and while the bus did just fine, the Lions ran out of gas early and rode the bus the two-plus hours home suffering a 76-45 beating at the hands of the Bonners Ferry Badgers. — By Piper Banning

Traditionally there always seems to be a winter thaw in January and this year did not disappoint. Temperatures rose to the high 30s. Sunday, January 28, 2024, was a foggy day to go shooting. Overall, there were only 23 shooters that came out to shoot. And with the January thaw came the first perfect score in the singles at the Bonners Ferry Gun Club.

The Badger boys hosted the Lincoln County Lions tonight for Senior Night, and sent Eureka back up that long, dark highway home subdued by a good ol’ fashioned 76-45 whoopin.’ […]

In October, Davy Bryant, Naples, traveled to Spokane and brought home medals after taking third place in men’s open bodybuilding and fourth in men’s physique in a qualifying round of […]