Forest Storytelling Festival takes center stage

PORT ANGELES -- At the Forest Storytelling Festival, each story takes on a life of its own -- molded and cast into forms as unique… Continue reading

Fuel surcharge removed from MV Coho fares

PORT ANGELES -- Black Ball Ferry Line has eliminated a fuel surcharge it began in June for travelers on the MV Coho ferry between Port… Continue reading

High Border Patrol agent held for child rape

BELLINGHAM -- A high ranking U.S. Border Patrol agent was booked into Whatcom County jail Thursday after he was charged Wednesday with three counts of… Continue reading

Area’s No. 2 Border Patrol agent arrested, removed from duties

The Associated Press BELLINGHAM — The No. 2 person in charge of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Blaine sector -- which includes the North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

  • Oct 16, 2008
  • The Associated Press

BREAKING NEWS: Black Ball Ferry Line eliminates fuel surcharge on MV Coho

VICTORIA - Black Ball Ferry Line has eliminated the fuel surcharge for travelers on the MV Coho ferry between downtown Port Angeles and Victoria. "Our… Continue reading

Debate draws packed house to Port Townsend tavern

PORT TOWNSEND ¬­-- For just more than 90 minutes on Wednesday night, the Water Street Brewing Co. restaurant and bar played host to a very… Continue reading

Focus on terrorists first, Rep. Dicks urges Border Patrol

PORT ANGELES -- Concentrate on catching terrorists and smugglers, U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks said he's told the Border Patrol. "Those are the things they should… Continue reading

Joke’s over — Port Townsend to fill in Tidal Bowl

PORT TOWNSEND -- Tell the stories, laugh at the jokes and use the puns while they last, because come spring time, you will not have… Continue reading

Local voters watch, then rate presidential debate

PORT ANGELES -- The presidential hopefuls smirked and sniped, put words in each other's mouths, corrected and interrupted. But the 25 people gathered at the… Continue reading

Tourism summit in Blyn focuses on bridging the gap when Hood Canal Bridge is out for six weeks in 2009

BLYN -- It was a day rich with ideas for close-to-home adventures at the Olympic Peninsula Tourism Summit at the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribal Center. From… Continue reading

Port Townsend mayor: Step up for pool

PORT TOWNSEND ¬­-- Who will be to blame if the only public swimming pool in Jefferson County closes? Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval says the… Continue reading

PSE contributions to anti-PUD campaign jump in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND -- Puget Sound Energy contributions have jumped to more than $237,000 in the power company's high-voltage campaign to sway voters from putting electric-service… Continue reading

Rep. Kessler recovering after car wreck

Lawmaker suffers back, neck pain OLYMPIA -- State Rep. Lynn Kessler walked away from an automobile collision last week with minor whiplash pain, her aides… Continue reading

Seattle fifth-graders climb Peninsula peak for lessons, view

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- "Everyone take one last gander," Olympic Park Institute educator Emily Carraux told a group of nine Seattle fifth-grade students Tuesday. "Say… Continue reading

State to nix Gardiner passing lane project

GARDINER ¬­-- The brakes appear to have been slammed on a $3 million project to widen a stretch of U.S. Highway 101 for a truck-climbing… Continue reading

Two brothers killed in four months; motorcycle wreck claims one; hunting accident takes second

Tragedy struck the Cook family twice in four months. Timothy Neal Cook, 36, died in a hunting incident Sunday near Chelan about 3¬½ months after… Continue reading

Woman in fatal head-on crash had outstanding warrant, revoked license

Engre Louise Brown of Sequim had a warrant out for her arrest, was driving with a revoked license and had repeatedly been cited for driving… Continue reading

Hunter killed in accident

CHELAN -- A 36-year-old Port Angeles man has died in what authorities in Chelan County say was a freak hunting accident. Timothy Neal Cook was… Continue reading

Plant power on the rise at Sequim Bay lab

SEQUIM - Look out to the open ocean and envision an energy powerhouse, a field of riches beyond measure. No, this isn't about offshore oil… Continue reading

Port of PA eyes 4.9% rate hike in new year

PORT ANGELES -- The Port of Port Angeles will look at raising most of its rates in 2009 according to the inflation rate -- about… Continue reading