Four former applicants to seek latest Port Angeles council vacancy

PORT ANGELES -- Four of seven unsuccessful applicants for a City Council vacancy in February say they will apply for the latest opening announced Tuesday.… Continue reading

Jefferson County pressed to hold forum about Navy base

PORT TOWNSEND -- Although the Navy has officially rejected requests by County Commissioner Phil Johnson to hold a public forum on expansion of Naval Magazine… Continue reading

Needle swaps rise among meth users on North Olympic Peninsula

Intravenous drug users in Clallam County prefer to shoot methamphetamine almost 2-to-1 over heroin. In Jefferson County, it's about half and half. Either way you… Continue reading

Port Angeles fluoridation may begin today

PORT ANGELES -- Technical issues with a telephone line out to Port Angeles' new fluoridation building appear to be resolved and fluoridation of the city's… Continue reading

Quilcene Hotel fire loss put at $750,000

QUILCENE -- Although not all the damages have been assessed in Monday's fire that destroyed the 89-year-old Quilcene Hotel, Fire Chief Bob Wilson on Wednesday… Continue reading

Renovation of Point Hudson building nearly complete

PORT TOWNSEND -- Port of Port Townsend commissioners are scheduled to meet at new Port administration offices Wednesday night as a $1.4 restoration of the… Continue reading

Criminal charges unlikely as result of fatal motorcycle crash

SEQUIM -- Charges are unlikely in a U.S. Highway 101 collision Sunday that claimed the life of a motorcyclist who swerved to avoid a runaway… Continue reading

Erickson resigning from Port Angeles City Council

PORT ANGELES -- City Councilwoman Lauren Erickson, who was elected to a second term in 2003, will resign from the City Council effective May 31.… Continue reading

Friends, foes of Marrowstone water pipeline get final chance to testify

PORT TOWNSEND -- A Jefferson County deputy hearing examiner took final public testimony Tuesday for and against a long-debated water system proposed for Marrowstone Island.… Continue reading

Hiker rescued after three days in serious condition at Seattle hospital

SEATTLE -- After three harrowing days of being severely injured and stranded in the Olympic National Park wilderness before her rescue Monday, Dana Crane remains… Continue reading

Investigators probing Quilcene Hotel fire focus on clothes dryer

QUILCENE -- Investigators examining the smoldering remains of the Quilcene Hotel on Tuesday think that the fire originated in the lint trap of a clothes… Continue reading

Sequim School Board inches closer to loosening P.E. requirements

SEQUIM -- High school athletes edged closer this week to an exit out of physical education courses. The Sequim School District Board of Directors, in… Continue reading

State graving yard report looks back at what went wrong

OLYMPIA -- With almost all the fingers pointed and all the fists pounded over the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard, state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald… Continue reading

City Council does an about-face on bicycle helmet law repeal

PORT TOWNSEND -- With Mayor Mark Welch swinging the City Council vote 4-3 Monday night against rescinding a controversial bicycle helmet requirement, the council instead… Continue reading

Fire razes landmark Quilcene Hotel

QUILCENE -- Fire destroyed the 89-year-old Quilcene Hotel on Monday despite the efforts of crews from five fire departments to save the landmark structure. It… Continue reading

Fluoridation in Port Angeles delayed until Wednesday

PORT ANGELES -- A telephone line problem has delayed the start of fluoridating the city's water supply until probably Wednesday. "Everything is ready to go… Continue reading

Port Townsend Paper executives optimistic during company conference call

PORT TOWNSEND -- Port Townsend Paper Corp.'s president voiced optimism in the company's future Monday, with virtually all of the company's boxmaking product lines "trending… Continue reading

Sides in Burnt Hill issue increasingly frustrated

SEQUIM -- Maybe the name of that place south of Sequim should change from Burnt Hill to Mounting Frustration. When the Department of Natural Resources'… Continue reading

Clallam health/human services director happy to be on Peninsula

PORT ANGELES -- Iva Burks is a native Northwesterner who says she accidentally was born in New York state. Clallam County is where her heart… Continue reading

Graving yard report due Tuesday in Olympia

OLYMPIA -- Seventeen months in the making, state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald's report on the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard fiasco will debut Tuesday. While… Continue reading