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Port Angeles High School students ask lawmaker about future with Trump

Port Angeles High School students ask lawmaker about future with Trump

Port Angeles High School students plied U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer with questions about the future under President Donald Trump. The 43-year-old congressman,… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School students ask lawmaker about future with Trump
Legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban mount from U.S. states

Legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban mount from U.S. states

Legal challenges against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington… Continue reading

Legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban mount from U.S. states
Port Townsend Women & Film Festival to welcome directors

Port Townsend Women & Film Festival to welcome directors

Six of the 11 directors whose films will be screened at April’s Women &Film Festival will be present. That’s huge for the… Continue reading

Port Townsend Women & Film Festival to welcome directors
Jonathan Heckathorn

Port Angeles police arrest man on ‘Most Wanted’ list

Police arrested a man wanted on multiple burglary and other charges early Thursday morning. Jonathon Heckathorn, 25, was arrested in a vehicle… Continue reading

Jonathan Heckathorn

Jefferson Stand with Standing Rock to march again Friday

Stand with Standing Rock Jefferson County will host a march Friday in Port Townsend to protest the Dakota Access pipeline that will… Continue reading

Subsidy would be needed for passenger air service in Port Angeles, official says

If Port Angeles is to regain commercial air service to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the airline will need to be subsidized, said John… Continue reading

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer greets constituents before taking the stage at the town hall in the Sequim High School auditorium Monday. (Erin Hawkins/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Kilmer draws a full house to talk economy, ethics, budgeting at Sequim meeting

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer discussed ethics, budgeting and creating a better economy at a town hall meeting in Sequim. The Monday night meeting,… Continue reading

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer greets constituents before taking the stage at the town hall in the Sequim High School auditorium Monday. (Erin Hawkins/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Port Townsend City Council looks ahead on two plans

The Port Townsend City Council has discussed updates to two city plans, the emergency management plan and the city’s 2017 work plans.… Continue reading

Vehicle snags power lines, knocks out power west of Port Angeles

Vehicle snags power lines, knocks out power west of Port Angeles

More than 800 Clallam County Public Utility District customers lost power Tuesday when a building supply truck snagged utility lines west of… Continue reading

Vehicle snags power lines, knocks out power west of Port Angeles
Firm details timber harvest management options for Clallam officials

Firm details timber harvest management options for Clallam officials

The Board of Natural Resources is considering five options for managing timber harvests, one of which is more than twice as good… Continue reading

Firm details timber harvest management options for Clallam officials

Hearing expected on vacation rental, B&B standards in Clallam

Clallam County commissioners today are expected to call for an April public hearing on a new proposal to regulate vacation rentals and… Continue reading

Jefferson County Public Utility District hires new chief financial officer

Jefferson County Public Utility District hires new chief financial officer

The Jefferson County Public Utility District has hired a new chief financial officer. Susan Carter was selected out of roughly a dozen… Continue reading

Jefferson County Public Utility District hires new chief financial officer
Washington state mulling further travel ban challenge after new order

Washington state mulling further travel ban challenge after new order

President Donald Trump’s new travel ban is more legally palatable than the old one, Washington Attorney General… Continue reading

Washington state mulling further travel ban challenge after new order
Port Angeles pool district seeks input on expansion plans

Port Angeles pool district seeks input on expansion plans

A major expansion is on the horizon for William Shore Memorial Pool, and district officials are seeking public input to help shape… Continue reading

Port Angeles pool district seeks input on expansion plans
Kilmer, Murray re-introduce Wild Olympics legislation

Kilmer, Murray re-introduce Wild Olympics legislation

U.S. Rep Derek Kilmer and Sen. Patty Murray have re-introduced Wild Olympics legislation to protect environmentally sensitive areas, support outdoor recreation and… Continue reading

Kilmer, Murray re-introduce Wild Olympics legislation
Port Townsend couple detained in Guatemalan marina back home

Port Townsend couple detained in Guatemalan marina back home

The Port Townsend couple detained at a marina in Guatemala while volunteering on an “abortion ship” operated by a Dutch nonprofit are… Continue reading

Port Townsend couple detained in Guatemalan marina back home

EYE ON OLYMPIA: Peninsula legislators expect expansion of halibut season

With several communities voicing opposition to a proposed three-day halibut fishing season this year, legislators from the 24th District are confident it’ll rise… Continue reading

Clallam Transit eyes service to Bainbridge

Clallam Transit eyes service to Bainbridge

It might make sense to leave the car at home when heading to Seattle come June. Clallam Transit has proposed daily bus… Continue reading

Clallam Transit eyes service to Bainbridge
Bench memorial outside Jefferson Healthcare to advocate for disabled

Bench memorial outside Jefferson Healthcare to advocate for disabled

The Jefferson Healthcare building has a new addition, a bench placed near the entrance in honor of the late Lynn Gressley a… Continue reading

Bench memorial outside Jefferson Healthcare to advocate for disabled
Port Angeles Medic 1 rate to increase — but by how much?

Port Angeles Medic 1 rate to increase — but by how much?

City council members have endorsed a Medic 1 residential rate increase of at least 56 cents a month by July 1 to… Continue reading

Port Angeles Medic 1 rate to increase — but by how much?