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WEEKEND: Red Wine & Chocolate Tour to offer Peninsula’s sweet samplings Saturday through Monday

WHAT BETTER WAY to celebrate the weekend after Valentine's Day than with wine and chocolate? The second weekend of the Olympic Peninsula Wineries' Red Wine… Continue reading

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Very little of the formerly 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam remains in this Tuesday webcam photo. National Park Service

Another section of dam blasted at Glines Canyon

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Another section of Glines Canyon Dam has disappeared in a shower of concrete and silt, reducing the dam to a low… Continue reading

Very little of the formerly 210-foot Glines Canyon Dam remains in this Tuesday webcam photo. National Park Service
Port Angeles residents Katharine and Tyler Bieker welcomed their cat Max home 15 months after it disappeared.

Port Angeles couple’s cat comes back after 15-month absence

PORT ANGELES — Max, a wandering black cat, is back home, cozy and spoiled after 15 months on the lam. Tyler and Katharine Bieker’s cat… Continue reading

Port Angeles residents Katharine and Tyler Bieker welcomed their cat Max home 15 months after it disappeared.
Port Angeles residents Katharine and Tyler Bieker welcomed their cat Max home 15 months after it disappeared.

Port Angeles couple’s cat comes back after 15-month absence

PORT ANGELES — Max, a wandering black cat, is back home, cozy and spoiled after 15 months on the lam. Tyler and Katharine Bieker’s cat… Continue reading

Port Angeles residents Katharine and Tyler Bieker welcomed their cat Max home 15 months after it disappeared.

Crew shortages cancel several Sunday runs of Port Townsend ferry

PORT TOWNSEND — Three round-trip runs for the Port Townsend-Coupeville ferry were canceled Sunday morning because of a shortage of crew members. The MV Kennewick,… Continue reading

Crew shortage cancels several Port Townsend ferry trips

PORT TOWNSEND — Three round-trip runs for the Port Townsend-Coupleville ferry were canceled Sunday morning because of a shortage of crew members. The MV Kennewick,… Continue reading

Retired Navy Capt. Jonathan Picker

Navy training corps at Port Angeles High School holds promotions

PORT ANGELES — On Thursday morning, 110 students and about a dozen parents and teachers gathered in the Port Angeles High School cafeteria for a… Continue reading

Retired Navy Capt. Jonathan Picker
Hazel M. Sampson

Eldest member among Klallam tribes, last native speaker of language dies in Port Angeles at 103

PORT ANGELES — Hazel M. Sampson, the last to have spoken the Klallam language from birth and the eldest tribal member among Klallam tribes, has… Continue reading

Hazel M. Sampson

Clallam County commissioners discuss Deer Park Road detour, Highway 101 widening

PORT ANGELES — The Deer Park Road detour will open sometime in the next two weeks, slowing traffic on U.S. Highway 101 to 25 mph,… Continue reading

Peninsula musicians chosen for state contest this April

PORT ANGELES — Top North Olympic Peninsula musicians were selected Saturday to perform in a state competition. Eighteen individual singers and musicians and 12 instrumental… Continue reading

In this family snapshot

Seahawks’ colors reign at Super Sunday wedding

SEQUIM — The bride wore white. The bride, Eve Mathis, 31, of Port Angeles made a nontraditional choice for her big day Sunday — a… Continue reading

In this family snapshot

Keystone Pipeline protest set today in Port Angeles [Clarification]

Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — A candlelight vigil to protest the Keystone XL pipeline project will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.… Continue reading

Keystone Pipeline protest set Monday in Port Angeles

Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — A candlelight vigil to protest the Keystone XL pipeline project will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.… Continue reading

Forks mayor gives updates on sanctuary dogs, art center

FORKS — Calls regarding the Olympic Animal Sanctuary dogs have stopped and the Rainforest Art Center is on schedule, Mayor Bryon Monohon told about 50… Continue reading

Forks mayor gives updates on sanctuary dogs, art center

FORKS — Calls regarding the Olympic Animal Sanctuary dogs have stopped and the Rainforest Art Center is on schedule, Mayor Bryon Monohon told about 50… Continue reading

Anti-bullying program urges culture change in Quillayute Valley School District

PORT ANGELES — The Quillayute Valley School District is piloting in Clallam County an anti-bullying program that involves everyone from bus drivers to teachers to… Continue reading

Ann Renker

Neah Bay principal to take state position in June

NEAH BAY — Neah Bay Middle and High School Principal Ann Renker, who has overseen major improvements in student achievement, will leave the district in… Continue reading

Ann Renker
Lincoln High School students and staff gather to celebrate Chris Clay's midyear graduation. Port Angeles School District

Port Angeles student graduates midyear, heads for Army

PORT ANGELES — January isn't a common time for graduations, but Lincoln High School senior Chris Clay wasn't going to let tradition slow him down.… Continue reading

Lincoln High School students and staff gather to celebrate Chris Clay's midyear graduation. Port Angeles School District
Rachele Brown of Bonney Lake displays a sun star infected with a wasting disease Thursday at the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Sea star wasting syndrome found in seven specimens in Freshwater Bay

PORT ANGLES — A survey of sea stars in Freshwater Bay found seven sea stars — or about 4 percent of those surveyed — infected… Continue reading

Rachele Brown of Bonney Lake displays a sun star infected with a wasting disease Thursday at the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Anti-bullying program urges culture change in Quillayute Valley School District

PORT ANGELES — The Quillayute Valley School District is piloting in Clallam County an anti-bullying program that involves everyone from bus drivers to teachers to… Continue reading