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Clallam Transit launches hybrid bus

PORT ANGELES — Clallam Transit is getting greener. The public transportation agency has unveiled a 14-passenger, low-floor hybrid minibus to serve the Sequim area. Transit… Continue reading

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Mayor Cherie Kidd of Port Angeles wrote a one-page letter to Hiro Sagawa last week. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

PA mayor thanks Nippon for biomass project

PORT ANGELES — In a letter to the president of Nippon Paper Industries USA, Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd thanks the company for its $71… Continue reading

Mayor Cherie Kidd of Port Angeles wrote a one-page letter to Hiro Sagawa last week. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Updated Clallam County precinct maps now online

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Auditor's Office has posted its new precinct maps on the county's elections website. The maps can be seen at… Continue reading

Arrest made in Forks molestation case

FORKS — Clallam County sheriff’s deputies and Forks police have arrested a 41-year-old man for investigation of two counts of first-degree child molestation. Isidoro Echeverria… Continue reading

Deb Ferguson

Friends offer help after coffee shops close

SEQUIM — Deb Ferguson, who closed The Buzz last week because of an insurmountable debt, said that as owner of one of Sequim's most popular… Continue reading

Deb Ferguson

Port Angeles murder defendant undergoes treatment

PORT ANGELES — Bobby J. Smith, who is accused of shooting his next-door neighbor in Port Angeles last summer, is undergoing treatment at Western State… Continue reading

Trials set for two accused of aiding killer

PORT ANGELES — Trial dates have been set for two people accused of helping John Francis Loring cover up the February murders he was suspected… Continue reading

Arraignment today for alleged abettors in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man and an Agnew woman accused of assisting double-murder suspect John Francis Loring in February will be arraigned in… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center, Service Employees union settle workers’ contracts

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center and one of its largest unions have settled new workers' contracts, ending an 18-month battle over health care benefits… Continue reading

Clallam County consolidates voter precincts

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has consolidated its 95 voter precincts to 67 as part of its decennial redistricting process. County Auditor Patty Rosand said… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center approves contracts with service union employees

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center has approved new employee contracts with its Service Employees International Union workers contingent on the union approving the same… Continue reading

Tom Lee Dale walks into Clallam County Superior Court on Monday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Bails set for alleged helpers in double-murder case

PORT ANGELES — Bails were set Monday for the Agnew woman and Port Angeles man who are accused of first-degree rendering criminal assistance to double-murder… Continue reading

Tom Lee Dale walks into Clallam County Superior Court on Monday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Great Olympic Duck Derby migrates to Lincoln Park

PORT ANGELES — The Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby is moving to Lincoln Park, organizers announced Monday. The May 13 fundraiser for the Olympic Medical… Continue reading

Port Townsend Paper praises biomass project court decision

PORT TOWNSEND — In the wake of an oral court ruling that upheld his company's permit for a $55 million biomass energy project, Port Townsend… Continue reading

A construction crane sits near the lagoon at the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles on Friday. Construction of a cogeneration plant  under way at the paper mill has forced organizers of the annual Duck Derby to find an alternate location for the event. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Duck Derby to float away from Nippon

PORT ANGELES — The Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby is going to migrate this year. Bruce Skinner, executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation,… Continue reading

A construction crane sits near the lagoon at the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles on Friday. Construction of a cogeneration plant  under way at the paper mill has forced organizers of the annual Duck Derby to find an alternate location for the event. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Judge upholds Port Townsend biomass permit

PORT TOWNSEND — A Thurston County Superior Court judge has upheld a permit for the Port Townsend Paper Corp.’s $55 million biomass energy project, state… Continue reading

Court upholds PT Paper Co’s biomass project permit

PORT TOWNSEND — A Thurston County Superior Court judge has upheld a permit for the Port Townsend Paper Corp.’s $55 millions biomass energy project, state… Continue reading

Clallam adds fire ordinance to county code

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has added a fire protection chapter to the books. County commissioners Tuesday voted 3-0 for an ordinance establishing a fire… Continue reading

Number of whooping cough cases levels off on Peninsula

The pertussis outbreak of 2012 has leveled off on the North Olympic Peninsula, with no new cases reported this week in ­Clallam or Jefferson counties,… Continue reading

Unemployment rises on the Peninsula

Stagnant job gains combined with a growing labor force kept February unemployment in double digits on the North Olympic Peninsula. Clallam County’s jobless rate went… Continue reading