Jeremy Schwartz

Barry Swegle enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles on Wednesday for a status hearing. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Competency hearing set back in Port Angeles bulldozer case

PORT ANGELES — A mental competency hearing originally set Wednesday morning for the Port Angeles man accused of tearing through a Gales Addition neighborhood with… Continue reading

Barry Swegle enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles on Wednesday for a status hearing. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Sheriff’s Office investigating complaint against shuttered Adoption Advocates International in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a complaint against Port Angeles-based Adoption Advocates International regarding $7,000 a church in Colorado reportedly… Continue reading

WaveDivision Holdings buys Port Angeles-based Capacity Provisioning

PORT ANGELES — Capacity Provisioning Inc., a Port Angeles business that provides fiber-optic service to several public agencies and businesses in Clallam County, has been… Continue reading

Sheriff’s Office investigating complaint against shuttered Adoption Advocates International in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a complaint against Port Angeles-based Adoption Advocates International regarding $7,000 a church in Colorado reportedly… Continue reading

Barry Swegle enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles on Wednesday for a status hearing. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Competency hearing set back in Port Angeles bulldozer case

PORT ANGELES — A mental competency hearing originally set Wednesday morning for the Port Angeles man accused of tearing through a Gales Addition neighborhood with… Continue reading

Barry Swegle enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles on Wednesday for a status hearing. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
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Adoption Advocates International in Port Angeles shuts down

PORT ANGELES — Adoption Advocates International, a Port Angeles-based nonprofit that has placed thousands of orphaned children in homes across the country, is closing its… Continue reading

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This before-and-after photo illustration shows the massive western red cedar near Kalaloch Lodge that was recently found split in half. — Olympic National Park

Huge cedar tree near Kalaloch Lodge splits in half after storm

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The gravel access road to a centuries-old, towering western red cedar near Kalaloch in Olympic National Park has been closed after… Continue reading

This before-and-after photo illustration shows the massive western red cedar near Kalaloch Lodge that was recently found split in half. — Olympic National Park

Adoption Advocates International in Port Angeles shuts down

PORT ANGELES — Adoption Advocates International, a Port Angeles-based nonprofit that has placed thousands of orphaned children in homes across the country, is closing its… Continue reading

EYE ON OLYMPIA: Drone rules, Olympic Medical Center reimbursement measures pass both houses of Legislature

OLYMPIA — Bills supported by North Olympic Peninsula legislators governing unmanned aerial vehicle use by state agencies and increasing Medicaid reimbursements for Olympic Medical Center… Continue reading

Port Angeles Downtown Association's new logo invokes city's nearby scenic resources

Port Angeles Downtown Association’s new logo invokes city’s nearby scenic resources

PORT ANGELES — The saw blade simply didn’t cut it. After a lukewarm reception to a proposed new logo for the Port Angeles Downtown Association… Continue reading

Port Angeles Downtown Association's new logo invokes city's nearby scenic resources
Daniel G. Gockerell

Sequim resident sentenced to drug treatment program after assault on deputies

SEQUIM — A Sequim man accused of driving into a building with a van and assaulting two deputies before he was subdued with a stun… Continue reading

Daniel G. Gockerell
Daniel G. Gockerell

Sequim resident sentenced to drug treatment program after assault on deputies

SEQUIM — A Sequim man accused of driving into a building with a van and assaulting two deputies before he was subdued with a stun… Continue reading

Daniel G. Gockerell
Ronnie Lee Bayley

Manhunt underway for men linked to Sequim burglary, chase

SEQUIM — Clallam County sheriff's deputies were looking Saturday for two Sequim men — after arresting a third Friday — suspected in a home burglary… Continue reading

Ronnie Lee Bayley
Barry Alan Swegle

Competency hearing set in Port Angeles bulldozer rampage case

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man accused of carving a swath of destruction through a Gales Addition neighborhood in May is expected back in… Continue reading

Barry Alan Swegle

Olympia man dies in wreck near Brinnon

BRINNON — An Olympia man died when the pickup truck he was driving on U.S. Highway 101 south of Brinnon left the road, swerved across… Continue reading

Port Angeles employee filing sexual harassment claim runs out of accrued leave

PORT ANGELES — A city employee who is seeking $100,000 in damages from the city, citing alleged sexual harassment by a City Council member and… Continue reading

Hollywood Beach is deserted Saturday after Port Angeles officials have warned people away from the waters of Port Angeles Harbor after recent rains overwhelmed the stormwater system

Rains carry 6 million gallons of water, sewage into Port Angeles Harbor

PORT ANGELES — Recent heavy rain strained the Port Angeles stormwater system to the point that 6 million gallons of combined rain water and raw… Continue reading

Hollywood Beach is deserted Saturday after Port Angeles officials have warned people away from the waters of Port Angeles Harbor after recent rains overwhelmed the stormwater system
A dead sea lion lies at the high tide line on the strait side of Ediz Hook in Port Angeles on Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Was sea lion shot? Photos sent to federal agency

PORT ANGELES — The director of the Feiro Marine Life Center is awaiting analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to find out… Continue reading

A dead sea lion lies at the high tide line on the strait side of Ediz Hook in Port Angeles on Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
A dead sea lion lies at the high tide line on the strait side of Ediz Hook in Port Angeles on Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Was sea lion shot? Photos sent to federal agency

PORT ANGELES — The director of the Feiro Marine Life Center is awaiting analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to find out… Continue reading

A dead sea lion lies at the high tide line on the strait side of Ediz Hook in Port Angeles on Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Barry Alan Swegle

Competency hearing set in Port Angeles bulldozer rampage case

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man accused of carving a swath of destruction through a Gales Addition neighborhood in May is expected back in… Continue reading

Barry Alan Swegle