Jeremy Schwartz

Port Angeles man charged with eluding, obstructing

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man now charged twice in five months with attempting to elude a pursuing police car is expected to be… Continue reading

Port Angeles panel urges OK of smart-meter consultant at a little less cost: $87,500

Port Angeles panel urges OK of smart-meter consultant at a little less cost: $87,500

PORT ANGELES — A proposal to hire a private consultant to assess the city’s delayed “smart meter” project will once again go before the City… Continue reading

Port Angeles panel urges OK of smart-meter consultant at a little less cost: $87,500

Prosecutors reconsidering vehicular homicide for driver in pedestrian fatality

PORT ANGELES — Prosecutors declined to file a charge against a Port Angeles woman arrested for investigation of vehicular homicide and driving under the influence… Continue reading

State Patrol seeks witnesses to fatal car-pedestrian collision

PORT ANGELES — The State Patrol detective investigating the car death of a pedestrian on U.S. Highway 101 in eastern Port Angeles wants to speak… Continue reading

UPDATE — Clallam Bay School put on lockdown; man arrested

CLALLAM BAY — A 25-year-old man was in the Clallam County jail Thursday after he was arrested following a disturbance at a home that led… Continue reading

Class C crimes redirected to cities

Forgery and theft of property valued between $750 and $5,000 are just two examples of property crime referred from the Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office… Continue reading

Port Angeles calls quits on felony diversions; Port Townsend says not ‘problematic’

Port Angeles officials are the first in Clallam County to say that their attorney’s office can no longer accept minor felony cases referred from the… Continue reading

State Patrol seeks witnesses to fatal car-pedestrian collision

PORT ANGELES — The State Patrol detective investigating the car death of a pedestrian on U.S. Highway 101 in eastern Port Angeles wants to speak… Continue reading

Former chairman of Clallam County Republican Party dies

Allan Bentley, a former chairman of the Clallam County Republican Party, has died. He was 86. Bentley died Sept. 28 at a nursing home in… Continue reading

Barry A. Swegle

Mental evaluation set in Port Angeles bulldozer rampage case

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man accused of tearing through multiple homes and pieces of property in east Port Angeles with a bulldozer May… Continue reading

Barry A. Swegle
Christopher M. White

Port Angeles man arrested in second alleged flight from police

CARLSBORG — A Port Angeles man remained in the Clallam County jail Saturday after reportedly crashing his car into a power pole following an attempted… Continue reading

Christopher M. White

Remains of centuries-old Native woman buried at Tse-whit-zen

PORT ANGELES — The remains of a native woman who likely lived on the North Olympic Peninsula centuries ago have been returned to the earth.… Continue reading

David A.C. Zavodny

Trial is delayed in Port Angeles teen’s heroin-related death

PORT ANGELES — A 19-year-old Port Angeles man accused in the heroin-related death of a teenager has been released from the Clallam County jail after… Continue reading

David A.C. Zavodny

Two men plead not guilty on kidnapping, assault counts

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man has pleaded not guilty to assault and kidnapping charges after allegedly forcing a 17-year-old girl into another man’s… Continue reading

$99,000 ‘smart meter’ consultant decision headed to Port Angeles city committee

PORT ANGELES — City Council members want more information about a proposed contract with a Chicago-based consultant to review the city’s delayed “smart meter” project… Continue reading

A sign permanently posted at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles warns of potential hazards during periods of sewage outflows into the harbor during heavy rains. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Port Angeles Harbor polluted with 8 million gallons of raw sewage, runoff stormwater

PORT ANGELES — The public has been warned to avoid contact with Port Angeles Harbor for the next seven days after heavy rains forced about… Continue reading

A sign permanently posted at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles warns of potential hazards during periods of sewage outflows into the harbor during heavy rains. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Christopher M. White

Port Angeles man arrested in second alleged flight from police

CARLSBORG — A Port Angeles man remained in the Clallam County jail Saturday after reportedly crashing his car into a power pole following an attempted… Continue reading

Christopher M. White
David A.C. Zavodny

Trial is delayed in Port Angeles teen’s heroin-related death

PORT ANGELES — A 19-year-old Port Angeles man accused in the heroin-related death of a teenager has been released from the Clallam County jail after… Continue reading

David A.C. Zavodny

Two men plead not guilty on kidnapping, assault counts

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man has pleaded not guilty to assault and kidnapping charges after allegedly forcing a 17-year-old girl into another man’s… Continue reading

Homeowner Cliff Smith walks past a fully engulfed outbuilding containing a recreational vehicle at 3249 S. Regent St. in Port Angeles on Wednesday afternoon. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Fire guts camper, garage south of Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The owner of a camping trailer and garage destroyed in a Wednesday fire was assessing the damage Thursday and had not yet… Continue reading

Homeowner Cliff Smith walks past a fully engulfed outbuilding containing a recreational vehicle at 3249 S. Regent St. in Port Angeles on Wednesday afternoon. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News