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Lead picked for Port Townsend task force: Panel to focus on finding new city manager

Lead picked for Port Townsend task force: Panel to focus on finding new city manager

Former Port Townsend City Council member Catharine Robinson will serve as lead of the city’s community task force for the replacement of… Continue reading

Lead picked for Port Townsend task force: Panel to focus on finding new city manager
State threatens challenge to coal plant proposal

State threatens challenge to coal plant proposal

Washington state plans to sue the Trump administration over its proposal to dismantle pollution rules that would… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2018
  • By Phuong Le The Associated Press
State threatens challenge to coal plant proposal
Wildfire smoke on Peninsula expected to begin to disperse late today

Wildfire smoke on Peninsula expected to begin to disperse late today

Wildfire smoke remained widespread on the North Olympic Peninsula on Tuesday as another plume of haze made its way into the region,… Continue reading

Wildfire smoke on Peninsula expected to begin to disperse late today

The Brinnon Group appeals of proposed resort action to be heard in different jurisdictions

Kitsap County Superior Judge Sally Olsen has ruled that the appeal of two Jefferson County decisions concerning the proposed Pleasant Harbor Master… Continue reading

Smoke doesn’t faze outdoor concerts in Port Angeles, Port Townsend

The shows will go on in Port Angeles and Port Townsend in hopes that the smoke that prompted Sequim’s cancellation of its outdoor concert Tuesday… Continue reading

Missing Sequim man, 59, found in Buckhorn Wilderness

Missing Sequim man, 59, found in Buckhorn Wilderness

The daughter of a 59-year-old hiker missing in the Buckhorn Wilderness since Monday morning found him Tuesday morning safe and sound as he… Continue reading

Missing Sequim man, 59, found in Buckhorn Wilderness
Pollution index soars as wildfire smoke sinks south

Pollution index soars as wildfire smoke sinks south

Meteorologists point to coming winds to blow away the gray

Pollution index soars as wildfire smoke sinks south
Cantwell, Franz address salmon, orcas, wildfires in Port Townsend appearance

Cantwell, Franz address salmon, orcas, wildfires in Port Townsend appearance

The environment took center stage as U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and state Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz discussed ocean health, orcas… Continue reading

Cantwell, Franz address salmon, orcas, wildfires in Port Townsend appearance
Flowers for Tokitae: Remembering Puget Sound’s captured orcas

Flowers for Tokitae: Remembering Puget Sound’s captured orcas

Activists vow to bring the last surviving orca of the southern resident captures home.

Flowers for Tokitae: Remembering Puget Sound’s captured orcas
Cold halts Strait swimmer as hypothermia ends historic bid

Cold halts Strait swimmer as hypothermia ends historic bid

A Victoria woman had to stop her swim across the Strait of Juan de Fuca and back after almost nine hours of swimming… Continue reading

Cold halts Strait swimmer as hypothermia ends historic bid

Port Hadlock boy injured after bicycle collides with vehicle

A 10-year old boy was treated and discharged from a Seattle hospital Sunday after he turned suddenly in front of a car… Continue reading

Paint the Peninsula to fill Port Angeles Fine Arts Center with just-finished work

Paint the Peninsula to fill Port Angeles Fine Arts Center with just-finished work

Shuang Li, a former graphic interface designer, left high technology for her original dream: making art. Preferably outside, away from any screen.… Continue reading

Paint the Peninsula to fill Port Angeles Fine Arts Center with just-finished work

Paint the Peninsula schedule

Paint the Peninsula, in which 22 painters spread across the North Olympic Peninsula to paint en plein air, begins today. Here is… Continue reading

Swimmers rescued at La Push

Coast Guard crews and La Push police rescued two men believed to be in their early- to mid-20s who were trying to… Continue reading

UPDATE: Marathon swimmer calls off across-and-back Strait journey
UPDATE: Marathon swimmer calls off across-and-back Strait journey
PHOTO GALLERY: Clallam County’s fair days of summer

PHOTO GALLERY: Clallam County’s fair days of summer

The Clallam County Fair was well underway Friday night and Saturday with plenty of kids, animals and rides. The fair runs from… Continue reading

  • Aug 19, 2018
PHOTO GALLERY: Clallam County’s fair days of summer
Port of Port Townsend taps known executive for interim director post

Port of Port Townsend taps known executive for interim director post

Port of Port Townsend commissioners reached back to move forward in naming former deputy director Jim Pivarnik as interim executive director for… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend taps known executive for interim director post
Sequim chamber director resigns

Sequim chamber director resigns

Shelli Robb-Kahler has announced her resignation from the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce’s executive director position. The chamber announced on Friday that Robb-Kahler… Continue reading

Sequim chamber director resigns

Smoke drifting back to Olympic Peninsula

SMOKY AIR IS returning to the North Olympic Peninsula. The National Weather Service posted on its website https://www.weather.gov/sew/ on Saturday a prediction that air quality… Continue reading

Traffic patterns shift on Eighth Street bridges in Port Angeles

Construction crews changed traffic patterns on the Eighth Street bridges Friday at about 1 p.m. According to a news release, westbound traffic… Continue reading