Jefferson fire district election still undecided

PORT TOWNSEND - Another count of 25 more Nov. 6 general election ballots Friday left the Jefferson County Fire Protection District 1 commissioner race still… Continue reading

PA property revaluations in mail today

PORT ANGELES - Owners of 30,000 homes and businesses in Clallam County soon will receive change of value notices from Assessor Pam Rushton. Most of… Continue reading

Shelter, clinic overrun with cats

PORT ANGELES - Treating and housing cats and kittens once owned by Julie Yu are straining the finances of the Clallam County Humane Society and… Continue reading

Trial set for Feb. 4 in animal cruelty case

PORT ANGELES - Julie Yu will go on trial Feb. 4 on eight counts of animal cruelty, three of them felonies. Yu, 52, pleaded not… Continue reading

Whale hunt botched, tribal biologist says

NEAH BAY - An illegal hunt of a gray whale Sept. 8 was bungled by the five men who killed it, according to a report… Continue reading

Whale killed by Makah hunters took 10 hours to die

A gray whale illegally killed in September by five members of the Makah tribe took nearly 10 hours to die because the hunters shot it… Continue reading

Clallam PUD restoring power to last areas

PORT ANGELES - The less than 100 Clallam County Public Utility District customers who remained without power Thursday after a Monday storm were expected to… Continue reading

Driver killed in wreck near Joyce

JOYCE - A Port Angeles man died after he crashed into a telephone pole and a tree stump on state Highway 112 on Wednesday. Todd… Continue reading

Jeffco planners OK Brinnon-area resort

PORT HADLOCK - The Jefferson County Planning Commission recommended that the three county commissioners approve a $300 million destination resort south of Brinnon. The planning… Continue reading

Lower Elwha cite long odds for opening casino

  PORT ANGELES - The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe has notified other local governments that it might open a casino, but it would be years… Continue reading

No redundant fiber optic route until early to mid-2008

When a tree severed a main fiber optic line in the Port Ludlow area on Monday and left many people without Internet service, some asked,… Continue reading

OMC will raise rates 8%, pass bare-bones budget

PORT ANGELES - Olympic Medical Center's fees will rise nearly 8 percent in 2008, hospital officials said Wednesday during a hearing on next year's budget.… Continue reading

PT homeless shelter to extend season

PORT TOWNSEND - Thanks to more volunteer help than ever, Jefferson County's winter homeless shelter can remain in operation about four additional weeks this season,… Continue reading

Challenged ballots could swing Fire District 1 race

PORT TOWNSEND - Zane Wyll's lead over Pete Langley for a Jefferson County Fire Protection District 1 commissioner seat narrowed to 11 votes on Wednesday… Continue reading

Decision on PT-Keystone ferry delayed

PORT TOWNSEND - A decision on the aging Nisqually's future on the Port Townsend-Keystone ferry run has been delayed for at least a month, a… Continue reading

Jefferson parks projects face funding shortage

PORT TOWNSEND - Jefferson County Memorial Athletic Field in Port Townsend and a $620,000 construction project at H.J. Carroll Park in Chimacum hang in limbo… Continue reading

Motorcyclist remains in coma

PORT TOWNSEND - A 29-year-old Port Townsend motorcyclist hit by a car two weeks ago remained in a coma at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle… Continue reading

PA ballot count firms up Kidd, Baxter victories

PORT ANGELES - Cherie Kidd will replace Port Angeles City Councilman Grant Munro, and Steven Baxter won Position 5 on the Port Angeles School Board,… Continue reading

School officials laud ‘simple majority’ apparent win

North Olympic Peninsula supporters of a measure to allow public school levies to pass with only a simple majority vote are excited by the recent… Continue reading

Sequim’s public works director to retire

SEQUIM - On James Bay's watch, Sequim metamorphosed from a sleepy town into a place where new subdivisions, roads and stores spring up like corn-… Continue reading