The U.S. Department of Agriculture isn't just about meat inspection, but about building rural communities, said Jon DeVaney, the state director of the federal department's… Continue reading
SEQUIM -- It was a 10-cent paperback book. One of many at an estate sale northwest of Sequim last Saturday. Carol Johnson picked it up,… Continue reading
SEQUIM -- The imagined civic center is like a new girl at the high school dance. She's mysterious, so people are curious. But suitors are… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- Voices cracking with emotion, Clallam County commissioners on Tuesday voiced their support for a one-10th of 1 percent sales tax for mental… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- Olympic Medical Center Commissioner Gary Smith on Tuesday promised a solution "one way or the other" to the Virginia Mason clinic crisis… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The Jefferson County Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Program is gearing up for Sexual Assault Awareness Month throughout April, during which various events will… Continue reading
SEQUIM -- First will come a refund, then a rate increase. Sequim residents saw a 3 percent tax on their water and sewer bills in… Continue reading
ABOARD THE ADVENTURESS -- A breezy day in the sun on Port Townsend Bay was the setting for an educational experience, one in which Sequim-area… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- Robert Gene Covarrubias likely will testify in his own defense against a charge of murdering a teen-age girl more than a year… Continue reading
FORKS -- Starting next year, students across the state can log on, learn and get a diploma through a new online high school based out… Continue reading
PORT LUDLOW -- With the advent of the Help America Vote Act in 2002, all polling locations across the nation are required to provide a… Continue reading
SEQUIM -- Monday night's discussion was enough to scare the daylights out of anybody. In an emergency, be it tsunami or terrorist attack, "you are… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County citizens can speak their minds Tuesday on a proposed sales tax to finance treatment of drug-addicted and brain-disordered people. County… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- Local, state, federal and tribal officials will gather Tuesday in Tacoma to start negotiations over the future of the former Hood Canal… Continue reading
SEQUIM -- The response has been "truly heartening," at times, said Neil Morris, 65. At other times, it's been not so positive. When he and… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- A word to those who would illegally park in a handicap spot or throw a midnight kegger in a public park --… Continue reading
SEQUIM -- Fish in the Dungeness River and crops in the fields northeast of Sequim can have their water and drink it, too, thanks to… Continue reading
NEAH BAY -- U.S. Postal Service inspectors are investigating the theft of $2,900 from a drawer at the Neah Bay post office on Friday afternoon.… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND --Chimacum High School Principal Rex E. Whipple pleaded not guilty on Friday to a voyeurism charge as his attorney vowed to prove that… Continue reading
PORT ANGELES -- The Makah tribe is inching closer to solving its water issues in Neah Bay and the Tribal Council is nailing down its… Continue reading