Olympic Medical Center hears of innovative Medicare billing plan

PORT ANGELES -- Make money from Medicare! Sounds like something you'd read inside a matchbook before matches went the way of cigarettes. It can be… Continue reading

Olympic National Park draft plan would add 16,000 acres in three areas

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- The "preferred alternative" of Olympic National Park's draft general management plan calls for adding about 16,000 acres to the park in… Continue reading

Proposed orca protections affect most of North Olympic Peninsula’s inland waters plus Puget Sound, San Juans

PORT TOWNSEND -- The federal agency that is proposing to designate about 2,500 square miles of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound… Continue reading

State park lake’s toxicity 20 times above minimum standard

CHIMACUM -- The deadly blue-green algae bloom in Anderson Lake shows a toxicity level 20 times greater than the level recommended to shut down the… Continue reading

Olympic National Park’s draft management plan includes relocating Kalaloch Lodge

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Relocating Kalaloch Lodge and U.S. Highway 101 out of areas prone to erosion are two proposals in Olympic National Park's draft… Continue reading

Port Angeles’ Choice Community School gains accreditation

PORT ANGELES -- Choice Community School, an alternative high school serving Port Angeles School District students, has earned its stripes. The district received notice Thursday… Continue reading

Tribe irked over Sequim’s plans for growth

SEQUIM -- The City Council neglected a critical responsibility while updating its Comprehensive Plan, according to a scathing eight-page letter from Jamestown S'Klallam Tribal Chairman… Continue reading

Volunteer builders constructing house in only one week

PORT ANGELES -- Aimee Jacobs will move from a dream into a dream house Sunday. She"ll own the 1,150-square-foot home that Habitat for Humanity built… Continue reading

‘Death list’ was all a misunderstanding

PORT TOWNSEND -- A "death list" found at Port Townsend High School is actually a list of possible cast members for a movie two students… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center forming task force on future of Clallam health care

PORT ANGELES -- A task force of doctors and Olympic Medical Center administrators will spend the next four months examining permanent options for providing primary… Continue reading

Port Angeles eyes November bond vote on aquatics center

PORT ANGELES -- A bond issue to build a new municipal aquatics center at the Clallam County Family YMCA complex could go to voters this… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend endorses county’s new economic development strategist

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County commissioners have officially approved a Port Hadlock-based nonprofit group to steer the county's economic development program. The county commissioners this… Continue reading

Prosecutor to reduce first-degree murder charge on teen accused of running down pedestrian

PORT ANGELES -- First-degree murder charges against a Port Angeles High School senior accused of running down a man on U.S. Highway 101 last January… Continue reading

Sequim prep students get down and dirty in community garden

SEQUIM -- It's a mutual, horticultural, high-tech back-scratching thing. This spring, a group of teens dreamed of a community garden by and for the people… Continue reading

Woman recounts illness from eating fish out of Anderson Lake

CHIMACUM -- With toxic blue-green algae still lurking in Anderson Lake, some people have come forward who say they have experienced illnesses allegedly caused from… Continue reading

Carlsborg business owners take a good look at their town for the future

CARLSBORG -- It's rough, scratching out a living on the fringe. Buses and water can be scarce, and you might start to wonder if anyone… Continue reading

Clallam commissioners OK seeking funds for emergency communications upgrade

PORT ANGELES -- You can't hear there from here. Emergency communications across the North Olympic Peninsula are beset by dead spots, blocked by mountains or… Continue reading

Lab tests confirm deadly algae in Anderson Lake; state park remains closed indefinitely

CHIMACUM -- Laboratory tests of blue-green algae from Anderson Lake showed Tuesday that high concentrations of toxicity did exist in the state park lake that… Continue reading

Sequim School Board cuts PE requirement for some students

SEQUIM -- Heather Smith, 15, has won her case, and the cases of other overscheduled teens. For now. In mid-April, the Sequim High School athlete,… Continue reading

Fluoridation case headed to appeals court

PORT ANGELES -- A legal challenge to fluoridation of the city water system is headed to the state Court of Appeals after the state Supreme… Continue reading