Boundary County - Bonner's Ferry
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... Bonner's Ferry, known as Idaho's Northern International Gateway, is nestled between the Selkirk and Cabinet Mountains on the banks of the Kootenai River.

The present location of Bonner's Ferry was first utilized by the white man as a camping site in 1859.

The present city of Bonner's Ferry was created in 1899, most of it still perched on stilts to avoid seasonal spring floods. Bonners's Ferry became the seat of Boundary County in 1915 when it was separated from Bonner County. It is the only county in the United States that is bounded by two states and a foreign country. ...

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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... Coeur d'Alene (/k"r d'len/ " KOR d'-LAYN;[6][7][8] French: C"ur d'Alne, lit.'Heart of Awl' French pronunciation: [k" d a.ln]) is a city and the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the most populous city in North Idaho and the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The population was 54,628 at the 2020 census.[4] Coeur d'Alene is a satellite city of Spokane, which is located about thirty miles (50 km) to the west in the state of Washington. The two cities are the key components of the Spokane"Coeur d'Alene Combined Statistical Area, of which Coeur d'Alene is the third-largest city (after Spokane and its largest suburb, Spokane Valley). T

he city is situated on the north shore of the 25-mile (40 km) long Lake Coeur d'Alene and to the west of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains. Locally, Coeur d'Alene is known as the "Lake City", or simply called by its initials, "CDA". ...

Racism

The Aryan Nations established their headquarters near Coeur d'Alene in the 1980s, and members of the group were frequently seen in the city. A successor group, Jerald O'Brien's Aryan Nations, is still based in the city.[114][115][116] Today, the city is a target of American Redoubt-related immigration.[117] ...

Government

The community operates on a mayor--council government, where the mayor and the six councilors are each elected to four-year terms and the mayor leads the city council meetings on the first and third Tuesday of each month at Coeur d'Alene City Hall.[160][161] The city is also the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho.[162]

At the state level, The City of Coeur d'Alene is within Idaho Legislative District 2 and Idaho Legislative District 4 for the Idaho House of Representatives and Idaho Senate. At the federal level, north Idaho is within Idaho's 1st congressional district and represented by Russ Fulcher in the United States House of Representatives and the state of Idaho by Mike Crapo and James Risch in the United States Senate.[163][164]

Coeur d'Alene, like the state of Idaho as a whole, is known for its conservative politics.[165] ...