Ghostlight Productions has bought the McCrorie building next to the Lincoln Theatre to become Ghostlight Headquarters to support its theater productions and for classes and workshops. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Ghostlight Productions has bought the McCrorie building next to the Lincoln Theatre to become Ghostlight Headquarters to support its theater productions and for classes and workshops. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Norovirus, strep seen on North Olympic Peninsula

Several illnesses, such as a norovirus and strep throat, are floating around the North Olympic Peninsula, prompting health experts to issue reminders… Continue reading

Standoff led to no police action

The late Wednesday afternoon standoff that shut down a city block for two hours began with a report of a possible suicide… Continue reading

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An abandoned building in the 200 block of East Front Street in Port Angeles faces demolition.

Teardown of derelict building in Port Angeles still on hold

Financing, permitting slows action on structure

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An abandoned building in the 200 block of East Front Street in Port Angeles faces demolition.
Port Angeles School District Superintendent Marty Brewer addresses the audience at a public forum at Jefferson Elementary School. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

PASD cuts in budget outlook

District is facing $5 million shortfall

Port Angeles School District Superintendent Marty Brewer addresses the audience at a public forum at Jefferson Elementary School. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

New Washington gun law already faces federal court challenge

Gov. Jay Inslee signs three related bills

  • Apr 26, 2023
  • By Lisa Baumann and Manuel Valdes The Associated Press
  • Regional News
David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, stands in front of the historic Lincoln School at Eighth and C streets in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The NOHC is hoping to divest itself of the school building and has issued a request for proposal on what to do with the structure. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Historical society seeks new proposals for Lincoln school

After 32 years, group giving up on dream of museum

David Brownell, executive director of the North Olympic History Center, stands in front of the historic Lincoln School at Eighth and C streets in Port Angeles on Tuesday. The NOHC is hoping to divest itself of the school building and has issued a request for proposal on what to do with the structure. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
State Department of Transportation officials, from left, Ben Ford, Brian Whitehouse and Piper Petit address a meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)

Closures, other DOT projects upcoming

Bridge repairs, roundabouts and fish passage work planned

State Department of Transportation officials, from left, Ben Ford, Brian Whitehouse and Piper Petit address a meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday. (Peter Segall / Peninsula Daily News)
Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns behind her on Sunday west of Port Angeles. The house was intentionally torched as a training exercise, giving firefighters an opportunity to practice in a live fire situation. Fire districts 2 and 4, along with members of the Port Angeles Fire Department, took part in the event. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Training exercise

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns… Continue reading

Clallam County Fire District 2 firefighter Mya Delano plays her guitar surrounded by fellow squad members as a house at 141 Harry Brown Road burns behind her on Sunday west of Port Angeles. The house was intentionally torched as a training exercise, giving firefighters an opportunity to practice in a live fire situation. Fire districts 2 and 4, along with members of the Port Angeles Fire Department, took part in the event. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Clallam PUD appoints Purvis

Assistant GM says he will resign from staff position

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Dungeness team receives Land Trust’s Out Standing in the Field award

A group best known for its advocacy toward Sequim’s iconic Dungeness River has earned the North Olympic Land Trust’s Out Standing in the… Continue reading

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Drug possession laws in limbo after House rejects Blake bill

Enforcement could be in hands of cites, counties after July 1

Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor on Ediz Hook on Saturday looking for refuse as an Earth Day activity in Port Angeles. Washington CoastSavers and Olympic National Park, as well as several other organizations, hosted beach cleanups across the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Earth Day cleanup

Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor on Ediz Hook on Saturday looking for… Continue reading

Joan Mickelson of Anacortes, left, and Doug Atterbury of Port Angeles scour the shores of Port Angeles Harbor on Ediz Hook on Saturday looking for refuse as an Earth Day activity in Port Angeles. Washington CoastSavers and Olympic National Park, as well as several other organizations, hosted beach cleanups across the North Olympic Peninsula. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler of Woodburn, Ore., at a cardboard crown craft table during Saturday’s Barn Dance at the Clallam County Fairgrounds to benefit the Five Acre School north of Sequim. The dance also included food, entertainment, children’s activities and a silent auction. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Five Acre School benefit

Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler of Woodburn, Ore., at a cardboard crown… Continue reading

Ida Shantz, 5, of Port Angeles looks over a sheet of stenciled letters with her grandmother, Patricia Kessler of Woodburn, Ore., at a cardboard crown craft table during Saturday’s Barn Dance at the Clallam County Fairgrounds to benefit the Five Acre School north of Sequim. The dance also included food, entertainment, children’s activities and a silent auction. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Transport fee rates adjusted in Jefferson

Ambulance hikes are in line with Port Ludlow

Van De Wege lone Democratic senator to oppose gun ban

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been corrected to show that it was Justice Antonin Scalia who said the Second Amendment right “is not unlimited” in… Continue reading

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Gun store owner Jim Rogers expects to weather an impending ban on assault weapon sales.

Assault weapons sale ban approved

Peninsula gun shop owners weigh-in on ban

  • Apr 22, 2023
  • By Paul Gottlieb Special to the Peninsula Daily News
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Gun store owner Jim Rogers expects to weather an impending ban on assault weapon sales.
This sonar image of the Pythias Oasis site shows bubbles rising from the seafloor about two-thirds of a mile deep and 50 miles off Newport, Ore. These bubbles are a byproduct of a unique site where warm, chemically distinct fluid gushes from the seafloor. Researchers believe this fluid comes directly from the Cascadia megathrust zone, or plate boundary, and helps control stress buildup between the two plates.Philip et al./Science Advances

Undersea ‘oasis’ sheds new light on plate tectonics

Seepage doesn’t mean an earthquake is imminent

This sonar image of the Pythias Oasis site shows bubbles rising from the seafloor about two-thirds of a mile deep and 50 miles off Newport, Ore. These bubbles are a byproduct of a unique site where warm, chemically distinct fluid gushes from the seafloor. Researchers believe this fluid comes directly from the Cascadia megathrust zone, or plate boundary, and helps control stress buildup between the two plates.Philip et al./Science Advances

Anderson Lake closed due to toxin

Anderson Lake is closed due to an elevated level of the potent nerve toxin anatoxin-a found in a water sample. Test results… Continue reading