James Casey

Non-Native teaching Quileute tongue-twisting language

LAPUSH — Every word spoken in Quileute breathes new life into the ancient Native American language. That's the perception of anthropologist Jay Powell, who has… Continue reading

Program diverts woman from prison — and meth

PORT ANGELES — Sometimes you've got to put in more than years to become a grownup. Kashine Meyer has done the time and then some.… Continue reading

1855 treaty trumps law in Makah whaling, defense will argue in hearing for five whalers

TACOMA — The names and faces will be different, but the issue will stay the same: Does a federal treaty trump federal regulations? The Treaty… Continue reading

Jail remodeling halfway finished

PORT ANGELES — The project to expand the Clallam County jail by 30 beds — and 30 percent — is about halfway to completion. What… Continue reading

Port Angeles volunteer clinic suffers from loss of . . . volunteers

PORT ANGELES — The uninsured may go unserved at 909 Georgiana St. The cottage is the Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics Clinic for people… Continue reading

Hearing Tuesday could lead to whaling charges being dropped

TACOMA — A pretrial hearing on motions to dismiss federal charges against five Makah whale hunters will proceed on Tuesday. Peninsula Daily News erroneously reported… Continue reading

Bad news driving bad home market, say builder, banker

PORT ANGELES — Publicity about mortgage foreclosures is scaring people out of building or buying houses, a builder, a banker and two real estate agents… Continue reading

Dungeness park may accommodate only Native hunters

DUNGENESS — Clallam County soon may tell the state Department of Fish and Wildlife that hunters won't be welcome much longer at the Dungeness Recreation… Continue reading

Obama is Peninsula Democrats’ overwhelming favorite; Paul shows strength in GOP ranks

Barack Obama overwhelmed Hillary Rodham Clinton in Democratic county caucuses Saturday across the North Olympic Peninsula, while Arizona Sen. John McCain edged out Republican support… Continue reading

Sequim chamber breaks silence about firing executive director

SEQUIM — Leaders of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce said they fired their executive director for "poor performance of routine job duties," inappropriate behavior… Continue reading

Sequim chamber faction questions executive director’s firing, threatens to seek board ouster

SEQUIM — Fifteen angry members of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce will confront the organization's board of directors Tuesday, threatening to remove and replace… Continue reading

Construction’s benefits multiply, economist tells industry group

BLYN — Drop a rock into a pond, and little waves will radiate from the splash point. Drop a new house into a community, and… Continue reading

Nurses endorse new contract with Olympic Medical Center

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center commissioners will consider ratifying on Wednesday a contract endorsed by nearly all hospital nurses. "We thought it was a… Continue reading

Puget Partnership charts ambitious cleanup calendar

BLYN — Imagine the good you'd harvest by harnessing all the random acts of kindness committed along the Strait of Juan de Fuca and around… Continue reading

60 attend NOAA crash course on oil spills

PORT ANGELES — Your grade-school teacher was wrong: Water and oil do mix. And water eventually will win. The problem comes with what occurs in… Continue reading

Update: Cape Flattery rising by a foot, not by feet

SEATTLE — Neah Bay won't be the North Olympic Peninsula's answer to Mount Ararat after all, it turns out. A Peninsula Daily News error that… Continue reading

The fight over growth in Sequim: Mayor tries to get Planning Commission chairman to quit

SEQUIM — An attempt to convince Sequim Planning Commission Chairman Larry Freedman to resign has failed, and Sequim City Council's new members' attempts to push… Continue reading

Audit faults Clallam Transit for oversights in 2005, 2006

PORT ANGELES — Clallam Transit System has corrected three procedural findings in an audit of the bus network's operations during 2005 and 2006. The report… Continue reading

Federal trial of Makah whalers moved to April

TACOMA — A federal court has postponed a preliminary proceeding for five Makah men accused of illegally killing a whale last Sept. 8. A hearing… Continue reading

Lee Embree, first photographer to fly into 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, dies in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Lee Embree, whose photographs so vividly memorialized events of World War II that he became a living memorial himself, died Thursday at… Continue reading