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End of death penalty, new hockey team among state’s top 2018 stories

End of death penalty, new hockey team among state’s top 2018 stories

The abolition of the death penalty was voted the state’s top news story of 2018 by Associated Press staff and member editors. Other… Continue reading

End of death penalty, new hockey team among state’s top 2018 stories
PHOTO: One with the wind at Fort Worden

PHOTO: One with the wind at Fort Worden

Nathan Forrest, from Port Angeles, kiteboards along the beach at Fort Worden State Park on Wednesday.… Continue reading

PHOTO: One with the wind at Fort Worden
Salmon Coalition celebrates decade-long project

Salmon Coalition celebrates decade-long project

The North Olympic Salmon Coalition honored 10 years of work and partnerships made along the way in its 3 Crabs nearshore and estuarine… Continue reading

Salmon Coalition celebrates decade-long project
Home-cooked meal served for public Christmas feast in Chimacum

Home-cooked meal served for public Christmas feast in Chimacum

Planning for a crowd of about 150 Christmas guests, Holiday Meals was ready for showtime at precisely noon as 16 people walked through… Continue reading

Home-cooked meal served for public Christmas feast in Chimacum

Eleven seek Clallam County Superior Court appointment

Gov. Jay Inslee will appoint next month a new Clallam County Superior Court judge from 11 applicants, more than half of whom… Continue reading

Keeping warm while starting fresh: Sequim couple receives Peninsula Home Fund help

Keeping warm while starting fresh: Sequim couple receives Peninsula Home Fund help

Here in the Dungeness Valley, Michelle and John Bonifazio found the life they were looking for. They had met and married in Southern… Continue reading

Keeping warm while starting fresh: Sequim couple receives Peninsula Home Fund help
Forks woman shaken but uninjured after pickup flips on Highway 101

Forks woman shaken but uninjured after pickup flips on Highway 101

A Forks woman was spared serious injury shortly before noon on Christmas day after her four-door pickup truck flipped over on a… Continue reading

Forks woman shaken but uninjured after pickup flips on Highway 101
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Kadie Wood, left, and Grady Earls, both 13 of Forks, enjoy an afternoon skating on Saturday at the Port Angeles Winter Ice Village in downtown Port Angeles.

Hundreds take to ice in Port Angeles for holiday skate

Scores of ice skaters honed their skills in downtown Port Angeles while others sipped hot chocolate and reveled in their festive surroundings… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Kadie Wood, left, and Grady Earls, both 13 of Forks, enjoy an afternoon skating on Saturday at the Port Angeles Winter Ice Village in downtown Port Angeles.

$50,000 bail for Port Angeles man on drug, explosives charges

Bail was set at $50,000 Monday for a Port Angeles man police say had heroin, methamphetamine, overdose medication, digital weight scales and… Continue reading

Shoppers flock to Port Townsend stores to close out Christmas shopping

Shoppers flock to Port Townsend stores to close out Christmas shopping

The streets of Port Townsend swelled with shoppers looking for last-minute gifts for young and old Monday. Parking was scarce midday but… Continue reading

Shoppers flock to Port Townsend stores to close out Christmas shopping
Elwha hotel land sale delayed; city, tribe say sale still to go forward

Elwha hotel land sale delayed; city, tribe say sale still to go forward

Port Angeles and Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe officials continue to hash out details of a purchase and sale agreement for downtown property… Continue reading

Elwha hotel land sale delayed; city, tribe say sale still to go forward
Port Angeles lays out terms of land sale to Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

Port Angeles lays out terms of land sale to Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

PORT ANGELES —The Port Angeles City Council, facing a balloon payment of $1 million in 2021, agreed last week on terms for selling a prime… Continue reading

Port Angeles lays out terms of land sale to Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
Home Fund helps senior with repairs

Home Fund helps senior with repairs

Wearing an impish smile, Carol Curtis will tell you: “I lived a semi-wild… Continue reading

Home Fund helps senior with repairs

Firm hired to oversee Quileute school move

The Quileute Tribe has hired an owner’s representative to oversee the design and construction of a new school on higher ground. Vanir… Continue reading

Jefferson County PUD to fix aging Port Ludlow power line

Jefferson County PUD to fix aging Port Ludlow power line

The Jefferson County Utility District has authorized emergency repairs of the Swansonville Road Underground Power Feeder Line in Port Ludlow. Because of… Continue reading

Jefferson County PUD to fix aging Port Ludlow power line
Lessons in landscaping: Ag science students construct pond on Sequim campus

Lessons in landscaping: Ag science students construct pond on Sequim campus

A pair of new faces at Sequim High School are helping change the face of the campus. Tristin Holbert and Chance Sare, both… Continue reading

Lessons in landscaping: Ag science students construct pond on Sequim campus
Partial federal government shutdown in place

Partial federal government shutdown in place

Olympic National Park was open to visitors in some areas but without offering any services on Saturday after the House and Senate adjourned without a… Continue reading

Partial federal government shutdown in place
Clallam County officials tell of one night in homeless shelter

Clallam County officials tell of one night in homeless shelter

Clallam County Commissioner Mark Ozias and Prosecuting Attorney Mark Nichols are the latest government officials to spend a night on the streets… Continue reading

Clallam County officials tell of one night in homeless shelter

North Olympic Peninsula crews closing in on remaining electrical outages

North Olympic Peninsula crews had reduced electrical outages from more than 10,000 at the peak of Thursday’s wind storm to less than 400 by late… Continue reading

Peninsula ablaze with lights for the holidays

Peninsula ablaze with lights for the holidays

Millions of Christmas lights twinkle across the North Olympic Peninsula in public and private displays from Port Townsend to the West End. What… Continue reading

Peninsula ablaze with lights for the holidays