NEAH BAY — Five men who killed a gray whale on Sept. 8 received deferred prosecution Wednesday from the Makah Tribal Court. All five must… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — It's all but official: Olympic Medical Center will consider seeking a tax increase to boost its flagging finances. Hospital commissioners will hold… Continue reading
SEATTLE — The Makah tribe's proposed return to legal whale hunting would have little effect on the environment — including on the targeted gray whales… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center emerged from the first quarter of 2008 with a positive operating margin of 2.1 percent, hospital commissioners learned Wednesday.… Continue reading
CARLSBORG — A crematory whose owner expects to incinerate 30 to 50 bodies each month received the stamp of approval Wednesday from Clallam County Hearings… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — Scott Buck, a 25-year Navy enlisted man and officer, will be Clallam County's new Veterans Assistant. "I hope to be one of… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County veterans officials interviewed 10 applicants for the post of veterans assistant Monday and could announce an appointment as early as… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners may appeal a state ruling that invalidates some of the county's pockets of business in rural areas. Or commissioners… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — First came the earsplitting scraping, then the deafening boom and the cloud of sand. In the silence that followed, witnesses heard the… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — If you stood in the right place and squinted just a bit Wednesday, you could have pretended Port Angeles Harbor was the… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — Serenity House has promised to hire a vet for a veterans assistant position it could share with Clallam County. A successful applicant's… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — A proposal to build a crematory in Carlsborg met opposition from about a dozen possible neighbors Wednesday at a Clallam County land-use… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners soon will debut their own version of the "West Wing." The politically evocative name actually is just the formal… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — A proposal to combine the Clallam County veterans assistant with a Serenity House program to help offenders re-enter society will receive at… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — The e-mail to Sen. Patty Murray asked her to withdraw funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs. "They either are incompetent to… Continue reading
FORKS — Embattled Mayor Nedra Reed has received a letter with heavy religious overtones and containing a large framing nail. The computer-printed letter said: For… Continue reading
NEAH BAY — The oil skimmer Arctic Tern heas begun calling Neah Bay its homeport as the Makah reservation becomes a staging area for spill… Continue reading
TACOMA — Their defenses quashed by a magistrate and having no argument over facts of the case, the remaining two Makah whaling defendants Tuesday accepted… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES — Scores of police officers, firefighters and sheriff's deputies — each with a black mourning band over his or her badge — bid… Continue reading
FORKS — Religious beliefs, racial bigotry and one sergeant's ambition to be chief were among the reasons three Forks Police Department employees should be fired,… Continue reading
