OLYMPIA — Washington state’s minimum wage is increasing to $9.04 an hour starting in January. The Department of Labor and Industries announced the change today,… Continue reading
The Associated Press and the PDN COPALIS CROSSING, Grays Harbor County — The director of the National Weather Service, Sen. Maria Cantwell and Congressman Norm… Continue reading
SEATTLE — The Housing Authority of Clallam County has received a $94,170 federal grant to continue funding two case management positions in 2012. U.S. Housing… Continue reading
By Mike Baker The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Democratic officials have been quietly exploring the logistics of a special election in February that could ask… Continue reading
By Erica Werner The Associated Press SEATTLE — President Barack Obama charged Sunday that the GOP vision of government would “fundamentally cripple America,” as he… Continue reading
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — NASA's dead 6-ton satellite plunged to Earth sometime last night, but more than eight hours later, U.S. space officials… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted this morning to reject the House’s stopgap spending bill, less than twelve hours after the House’s Republican leaders had forced… Continue reading
By Mike Baker The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday she expects a November special session focused on the budget to be… Continue reading
FREELANCE VIDEO BY Port Townsend-based multimedia journalists Nina Jurczynski and Jack Olmsted: Students create "Metropolis — City of the Future" for the entrance into the… Continue reading
The Associated Press ABERDEEN — The National Weather Service is now getting information from a new Doppler radar station in Grays Harbor County. Spokesman Ted… Continue reading
The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire said today she expects a November special session focused on the budget to be a “brutal” gathering… Continue reading
By Peninsula Daily News and Associated Press SEATTLE — A coalition of 21 civil liberties, immigrant rights and labor groups has sent a letter to… Continue reading
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA scientists are doing their best to tell us where a plummeting six-ton satellite will… Continue reading
By Mavis Amundson For Peninsula Daily News Earlier this month, more than 180 wildfires broke out in Texas, a state suffering from drought and a… Continue reading
Actress Kristen Stewart — who plays Bella in the "Twilight" saga of movies based in (but not filmed in) Forks and the North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading
By Lynda Mapes The Seattle Times (via The Associated Press) PORT ANGELES — Just as dam removal gets under way on the Elwha River, wild-fish… Continue reading
This is the second of two photo galleries from the Saturday (Sept. 17, 2011) Elwha River dam-removal ceremonies at the Elwha Dam west of Port… Continue reading
Janette Force, Executive Director for The Port Townsend Film Festival (PTFF), Bill LeMaster, co-owner Lehani's, on Taylor Street in Port Townsend, WA about the Port… Continue reading
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series of articles this week by Port Angeles writer/historian John Kendall on the Elwha River dams, their… Continue reading
In the photo at right, Austin Lee, left, and Chris Clem of the Port Angeles Rotary Club adjust the tent set up Thursday for the… Continue reading
