Arwyn Rice

Board considers selling aging Port Angeles schools

PORT ANGELES — It’s time for four of Port Angeles School District’s aged schools to be replaced and to sell some of the district’s surplus… Continue reading

Port Angeles School Board opposes charter-school initiative

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School Board has formally voted to oppose a state initiative that would allow charter schools in Washington, and it… Continue reading

Port Angeles' 58-year-old Franklin Elementary scored low on a recent safety and structural checklist done by the school district. Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News

Port Angeles School Board to discuss aging buildings tonight

PORT ANGELES — The School Board long has linked declining enrollment with aging school structures in Port Angeles, and today, the board will discuss the… Continue reading

Port Angeles' 58-year-old Franklin Elementary scored low on a recent safety and structural checklist done by the school district. Arwyn Rice/Peninsula Daily News

Quileute potlatch to fete move to higher ground

LAPUSH — The Quileute will celebrate the tribe’s impending move to higher ground with a potlatch at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Akalat Center in… Continue reading

Student TV station may soon launch

PORT ANGELES — The school district is just $16,000 away from a student-produced TV station. The North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center has most of the… Continue reading

WEEKEND: Tale-spinners, word-weavings at Forest Storytelling Fest

PORT ANGELES — A dozen storytellers will spin their tales — and teach others to do a little spinning of their own — at the… Continue reading

Mario Wayne Hackney

CRIME — Followup story — Capture of fugitive felon Mario Hackney after 10-hour standoff

PORT ANGELES — A man wanted for first-degree attempted murder returned to the scene of the crime — and was arrested, ending a four-week manhunt.… Continue reading

Mario Wayne Hackney

Student TV station may soon launch

PORT ANGELES — The school district is just $16,000 away from a student-produced TV station. The North Olympic Peninsula Skills Center has most of the… Continue reading

(1 of 3 photos plus map) The hillside that collapsed on U.S. Highway 101 at Milepost 228 along Lake Crescent (just before the Storm King Ranger Station at Barnes Point)

U.S. 101 reopens after rockslide at Lake Crescent (with 3 photos and map)

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The link between east and west reopened Thursday night. U.S. Highway 101 at Lake Crescent, closed since Wednesday by a rock… Continue reading

(1 of 3 photos plus map) The hillside that collapsed on U.S. Highway 101 at Milepost 228 along Lake Crescent (just before the Storm King Ranger Station at Barnes Point)

WEEKEND: Tale-spinners, word-weavings at Forest Storytelling Fest

PORT ANGELES — A dozen storytellers will spin their tales — and teach others to do a little spinning of their own — at the… Continue reading

(1 of 3 photos plus map) The hillside that collapsed on U.S. Highway 101 at Milepost 228 along Lake Crescent (just before the Storm King Ranger Station at Barnes Point)

UPDATE: U.S. 101 reopens after rockslide at Lake Crescent (with 3 photos and map)

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The link between east and west reopened this evening. U.S. Highway 101 at Lake Crescent, closed since Wednesday by a rock… Continue reading

(1 of 3 photos plus map) The hillside that collapsed on U.S. Highway 101 at Milepost 228 along Lake Crescent (just before the Storm King Ranger Station at Barnes Point)
State and Olympic National Park road workers stand on U.S. 101 on the edge of Lake Crescent on Wednesday

3rd UPDATE: U.S. 101 at Lake Crescent to remain closed into Thursday morning; transit service changed

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — U.S. Highway 101 is closed at Lake Crescent due to an active rockslide — and will remain so into Thursday morning.… Continue reading

State and Olympic National Park road workers stand on U.S. 101 on the edge of Lake Crescent on Wednesday
Tom Schaafsma Peninsula Daily News

Sequim’s Schaafsma slowly recovering

SEQUIM — Sequim civic leader Tom Schaafsma remained in critical condition Monday in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. But his family said… Continue reading

Tom Schaafsma Peninsula Daily News

Tickets selling out fast for tsunami debris film

The trailer for a documentary film about Clallam and Jefferson counties’ Pacific Coast and incoming tsunami debris has been released online and tickets for the… Continue reading

Brody Neal

Family hopeful as 3-year-old battles cancer

SEQUIM — A Sequim family is fighting for its future: Their 3-year-old son, Brody Neal, is fighting brain cancer and began chemotherapy while his mother… Continue reading

Brody Neal
Sequim Rotarian Tom Schaafsma stands with actor Sean Penn during a Haiti relief effort in which Schaafsma assisted with placing Rotary ShelterBoxes in 2010. Schaafsma was severely injured Friday when a tractor flipped on him.

Sequim civic leader Schaafsma recovering from tractor rollover

SEQUIM — Well-known North Olympic Peninsula civic leader and humanitarian Tom Schaafsma was breathing on his own Sunday at a Seattle hospital after a tractor… Continue reading

Sequim Rotarian Tom Schaafsma stands with actor Sean Penn during a Haiti relief effort in which Schaafsma assisted with placing Rotary ShelterBoxes in 2010. Schaafsma was severely injured Friday when a tractor flipped on him.

Clallam County sheriff forms burglary task force

PORT ANGELES — A 27 percent increase in burglaries in unincorporated Clallam County is unacceptable, Sheriff Bill Benedict said, and a task force has been… Continue reading

Home-invasion suspect is arrested in Poulsbo

PORT ANGELES — The third member of a trio of young men thought responsible for a home-invasion robbery and an attempt at a similar robbery… Continue reading

Carmen Czachor receives second place in the large-quilt category at the recent Northwest Quilting Expo in Portland

Port Angeles quilter wins second at expo

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles quilter crossed off one item from her bucket list — acceptance to a juried national quilt show — then… Continue reading

Carmen Czachor receives second place in the large-quilt category at the recent Northwest Quilting Expo in Portland
Willard Morgan

WEEKEND: Dinner to cap off annual Heritage Days in Forks

FORKS — A harvest dinner, smoked fish and brew, and a fundraiser for the Forks Library will cap the annual Forks Heritage Days celebration. The… Continue reading

Willard Morgan