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Port Angeles: Coast Guardsman’s false racial note helps land him in court-martial

PORT ANGELES -- A U.S. Coast Guardsman who allegedly fabricated a note containing a racial slur will be court-martialed in Seattle next week. Charges in… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Elks fire cause could be known by Friday

PORT ANGELES -- Business owners are continuing to assess the damage caused by a fire that burned part of the downtown Elks Naval Lodge, and… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Internet cafe hopes to find temporary location

PORT ANGELES -- Michael Swirski, who relocated his @Play Internet Cafe to a street-level space on First Street earlier this year, said he hopes to… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Investigation begins today on cause of Elks Lodge fire

PORT ANGELES -- Firefighters will begin their investigation today into a blaze that swept through the city's tallest building early Tuesday, destroying a street-level camera… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Realtor charged in cocaine ring investigation, maintains innocence

PORT ANGELES -- Prosecutors have filed charges of money laundering and conspiracy to deliver cocaine against a real estate agent accused of being part of… Continue reading

Peninsula: Flu creeping into area

The North Olympic Peninsula is in the initial stages of an influenza outbreak as the illness is becoming widespread throughout the state. Educators are seeing… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Contractor charged as part of alleged cocaine ring

PORT ANGELES -- Prosecutors on Thursday formally charged the ninth person to be arrested in the investigation of an alleged cocaine ring. Randy Blount Owens,… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Pooch which helps itself into cars gets a new home

PORT ANGELES -- The dog which appeared inside a vehicle last week and has wowed its hosts with its ability to open pop bottles and… Continue reading

Neah Bay: Makah likely to seek another review of whaling ruling

NEAH BAY -- The Makah tribe will likely seek another full-panel review of an appeals court decision that blocks the tribe's right to hunt gray… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Saddle-making helps bring people together

PORT ANGELES -- Dennis Bender, an Evangelical missionary, was looking for a way to build relationships with the Guarijio people of northern Mexico. He read… Continue reading

Clallam: Santa Claus has a busy day

Santa Claus arrived on the North Olympic Peninsula twice on Saturday, giving up his reindeer in favor of a motorcycle and a fire engine. In… Continue reading

Peninsula stores prepare for busiest day

Holiday songs are already ringing over store's stereo speakers as retailers brace for the annual onslaught of Christmas shoppers. Today is traditionally the busiest shopping… Continue reading

Peninsula: Food banks feel the pull at Thanksgiving

Volunteers at the Sequim Food Bank were planning a last-minute Thanksgiving delivery on Tuesday to make sure a family living in a tent in the… Continue reading

Clallam: Figures in alleged drug ring face additional counts

PORT ANGELES -- Prosecutors have filed more charges against Bernard "Pete" Barnes and others accused of taking part in an organized cocaine distribution network. Barnes,… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Prominent Realtor linked to cocaine ring

PORT ANGELES -- Drug task force agents seized more than $117,000 in cash Wednesday night and arrested a prominent real estate agent in a cocaine… Continue reading

Port Angeles: “It’s better than nothing, but it’s a step backwards”

PORT ANGELES -- About once a week, employees from Roger Olson's company board a Horizon Air airplane to Seattle to catch a connecting flight bound… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Music, solemn words highlight region’s Veterans Day ceremony

PORT ANGELES -- Dozens of U.S. armed forces veterans stood to applause Tuesday morning as a band played the familiar songs of each branch of… Continue reading

Peninsula homelessness worse than expected

Hundreds of people in Clallam and Jefferson counties are living in tents, on beaches, in cars or drifting from couch to couch and considered homeless… Continue reading

Ambulance service will remain in Fire District 2 despite probable levy failure

PORT ANGELES -- Olympic Ambulance will not end ambulance service to customers in Clallam County Fire District No. 2, even if the district's emergency medical… Continue reading

Port Angeles: $1.3 million verdict in death of mother, three children

PORT ANGELES -- A Clallam County Superior Court jury has found the state mostly responsible in the deaths of a Joyce woman and her three… Continue reading