Funds possible in Clallam’s quest to end homelessness

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County's ambitious plan to end homelessness by 2015 may win it $1.75 million to help house people recently released from hospitals,… Continue reading

Humane Society has volunteer positions outside of the shelter

PORT ANGELES -- Volunteer opportunities abound at the Clallam County Humane Society, even for dog and cat lovers who haven't the heart to work in… Continue reading

Port Townsend-based bank sold to Kitsap Bank for $16.2 million

PORT TOWNSEND -- Locally owned MarinerBank announced Monday it is merging with Kitsap Bank after just 3½ years in business. During a news conference in… Continue reading

Restrictions imposed as Lake Cushman fire remains out of control

Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest have restricted fires and tobacco smoking as a wildfire continues to scorch national forest terrain north of Lake… Continue reading

Jefferson: Puffin cruise season nears end

PROTECTION ISLAND -- It's not a trip to the zoo. But the cruise around Protection Island at the mouth of Discovery Bay offers plenty of… Continue reading

Sequim: Pharmaceutical drug traces found in some water wells

SEQUIM -- The medicine you flush down your toilet may turn up in your tap water -- at least if you drink from a well… Continue reading

Tribe’s plan to widen U.S. 101 hits speed bump

BLYN -- The Jamestown S'Klallam tribe can widen U.S. Highway 101 in front of its new Country Store and a fire station, but it can't… Continue reading

Clallam Bay prison superintendent would rather take step backward than leave West End

CLALLAM BAY -- Clallam Bay Corrections Center Superintendent Sandra Carter won't be leaving to lead a new prison after all. Instead, she will accept an… Continue reading

First Nations chief drowned, autopsy shows

PORT ANGELES -- The 68-year-old Canadian tribal chief who perished in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Wednesday drowned, according to a death certificate… Continue reading

Last-minute filing brings primary opponent to Jefferson prosecuting attorney

Jefferson County voters will have plenty of decisions to make in the Sept. 19 primary and the Nov. 7 general election. A last-minute filing Friday… Continue reading

Marine ‘dead zone’ killing fish, crab

TAHOLAH -- North of the Moclips River on the central Olympic Peninsula coast, crabbers are pulling up pots full of dead Dungeness crabs. Dozens of… Continue reading

Marriage proposal made big so pilot fiancee can see it

SEQUIM -- Mike Heacock called his sweetheart's sons, Jason and Jeremy, to ask for their blessing. He was planning to propose to their mother, Ms.… Continue reading

North Olympic Peninsula gets its first full-fledged Starbucks cafe

SEQUIM -- The pineapple passion coffee cake is baked. The pomegranate Frappuccino juice is blended, and the stream of caffeine seekers has arrived. The Peninsula's… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend turns over old tribal canoe to Makah elder

PORT TOWNSEND -- An old tribal canoe that's been on display outdoors on Point Hudson since John F. Kennedy was president has been given to… Continue reading

Two nonpartisan Clallam officials, two judges re-elected — because no opponents file

Clallam County Assessor Pam Rushton and County Treasurer Judith Scott won another term in office Friday because no one filed to run against them for… Continue reading

Boy saves three kayakers off Fort Worden

PORT TOWNSEND -- Three kayakers were cold and wet but otherwise fine after being rescued from the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca… Continue reading

Canoe victim’s personal paddle to be carried in his honor to end of journey

JAMESTOWN -- The personal canoe paddle of Jerry Jack, who died Wednesday in the only water fatality in nearly two decades of tribal canoe journeys,… Continue reading

Coast Guard will encourage — but not enforce — lifejackets among canoe pullers

Because officials do not yet know the cause of death of a Canadian First Nations chief at the scene of a swamped canoe off Dungeness… Continue reading

Elk management team still leans toward moving herd away from Sequim

SEQUIM -- Twelve young elk born this summer visit Jessica Coyle daily at her home on the Graysmarsh farm northeast of town. The calves bring… Continue reading

Perseverance prevails as a few canoes paddle to Fort Flagler

MARROWSTONE ISLAND -- It's been said that perseverance is the pride of pullers when it comes to the Inter-Tribal Canoe Journey. On Thursday, pullers arriving… Continue reading