Peninsula Daily News

Your weekend planner: Events focus on coming holidays

Peninsula Daily News Ho-ho-ho. The last weekend before Christmas will be crammed full of holiday treats on the North Olympic Peninsula. Santa Claus will visit… Continue reading

Ceremony Friday to mark start of daily Hurricane Ridge access

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Seven-day access to Hurricane Ridge begins Friday. Olympic National Park plans a noon ceremony at the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center and… Continue reading

Up close and personal

In the photo at right, Alicia Thompson of Port Angeles and her son, Charlie Thompson, 2, meet Rocky and Cami, a pair of Clydesdales owned… Continue reading

Hoh tribe wins passage of land transfer; once signed, bill will allow tribe to move to higher ground

The Hoh tribe soon will move from its flood-ravaged and dwindling reservation in West Jefferson County to higher ground. The House of Representatives approved legislation… Continue reading

It’s ‘Shop ‘Til You Drop’ in downtown Port Angeles on Thursday

PORT ANGELES -- Sales, treats, music and Santa will be available as part of "Shop 'Til You Drop" on Thursday night. More than 30 stores… Continue reading

Nippon mill’s 90th anniversary takes the cake!

Kathy Prince, who has worked at the paper mill now owned by Nippon Paper Industries USA since 1988, cuts cake to celebrate the plant's 90th… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Sequim wins fifth straight game — against team from Australia

SEQUIM -- The Sequim High School boys basketball team won its fifth straight game after holding off a foreign invader Tuesday night. The Wolves dropped… Continue reading

Quileute elder, Boldt decision figure, dies at 81

Christian Esau "Jiggs" Penn Jr., an elder of the Quileute tribe and the group's only witness at the historic Boldt decision trial, has died after… Continue reading

The helping hands behind the Peninsula Home Fund

EDITOR'S NOTE -- For 21 years, Peninsula Daily News readers in Jefferson and Clallam counties have supported the "hand up, not a handout" Peninsula Home… Continue reading

Grant helps Habitat for Humanity build Port Angeles homes for next Christmas

PORT ANGELES -- Two families will move into new homes in time for Christmas next year, thanks in part to a $71,000 grant given to… Continue reading

SPORTS: Port Angeles girls stay unbeaten with win over Port Townsend; other prep results

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Port Angeles girls basketball machine steamrolled past Port Townsend 86-36 for its fourth straight win to begin the season Tuesday night.… Continue reading

Swollen Peninsula rivers back to normal; more — but less — rain forecast for today

Rain subsided into sprinkles Monday, allowing the inundated North Olympic Peninsula rivers of Sunday to return to normal by early Monday morning. More rain is… Continue reading

Car in wrecking of Port Angeles yard impounded; police still seeking driver

PORT ANGELES -- Police impounded the car that wrecked two fences in the yard of a Port Angeles man. When the car went through Jeff… Continue reading

Federal judge invalidates key provision of health care law

A federal district judge in Virginia ruled on Monday that the keystone provision in the Obama health care law is unconstitutional, becoming the first court… Continue reading

Sequim choir students to perform in Seattle

SEQUIM -- Six high school students will attend a musical conference in Bellevue in February which will be capped by performances at Benaroya Hall in… Continue reading

SPORTS: Preview capsules of Class 1B girls basketball teams

Neah Bay is the team to beat again on the North Olympic Peninsula in Class 1B girls basketball action. The Red Devils have won the… Continue reading

SPORTS: Taholah pulls away from Crescent in fourth quarter of girls basketball game

TAHOLAH -- Crescent's Sara Moore tied for game-scoring honors with 17 points but it wasn't enough for the Loggers in a nonleague girls basketball game… Continue reading

State Highways 110, 112 reopened

State Highway 110 and state Highway 112 have both been reopened after rivers returned to normal levels. "Both are reopened -- they are messy, but… Continue reading

Waterfront Trail link closed east of Rayonier property

The Waterfront Trail in Port Angeles — part of the Olympic Discovery Trail — has been closed to through access between the Rayonier parking lot… Continue reading

Forks radio stations remain off air after lightning strike on tower

FORKS -- Engineers were assessing damage to the AM and FM radio stations Friday after lightning struck the tower Wednesday, says the station manager. Tina… Continue reading