Port Angeles School Board extends Cohn’s contract one year

PORT ANGELES -- The Port Angeles School Board unanimously extended Superintendent Gary Cohn's contract by one year during its Monday night meeting at Choice Community… Continue reading

Virginia Mason could lose $25 million if it fails to fund clinic transition, Olympic Medical Center CEO says

PORT ANGELES -- Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle could reap a harvest of ill will if it fails to fund the transformation of the… Continue reading

EDC president says he understands county’s move to take over job-creating agency

PORT TOWNSEND -- Although he expressed surprise at Jefferson County's move to take over the Economic Development Council's functions, the job-creating agency's president said he… Continue reading

Landfall owners pull plans; restaurant up for sale

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Landfall Restaurant's owners are suspending extensive expansion plans and putting the eatery at Point Hudson up for sale. "We plan to… Continue reading

Officers in Jefferson County practice nighttime shooting

PORT TOWNSEND -- The trigger is pulled and a flash of gunpowder escapes from the pistol barrel, not once but over and over again. A… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center-Virginia Mason deal sours

PORT ANGELES -- Olympic Medical Center's plan to keep Virginia Mason Clinic doctors in practice and in town seemed to sour Tuesday. While a long-term… Continue reading

Sequim schools to analyze how to spend more I-728 funds

SEQUIM -- More people equals a little more money for teachers. That's how it could work when the state Legislature allocates Initiative 728 funds for… Continue reading

Sheriff’s Department to pay more than $41,000 in back pay to jail employees

PORT ANGELES -- The Clallam County Sheriff's Department will have to pony up more than $41,000 in unpaid overtime to jail supervisors who have been… Continue reading

State House budget puts U.S. 101 widening money back in

OLYMPIA -- A $32 million project to widen to four lanes an accident-prone stretch of U.S. Highway 101 between Port Angeles and Sequim was included… Continue reading

Health officer says Avian flu pandemic inevitable

Avian influenza is advancing toward a pandemic like the slow-motion segment of a horror movie, a dreadful progress whose creeping pace may petrify its victims… Continue reading

Jefferson County commissioners vote EDC takeover

PORT TOWNSEND -- Pulling back $25,000 budgeted for the Economic Development Council, Jefferson County commissioners moved Monday to take the oft-dysfunctional job-creating agency under its… Continue reading

North Peninsula still feeling effects of gusty winds

The residual effects of a freak weather pattern that brought gusty winds to areas along the Strait of Juan de Fuca early Monday were still… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles preparing to sell acreage near waterfront for $800,000

PORT ANGELES -- The Port of Port Angeles is ready to sell its two acres at the northwest corner of Front and Oak streets to… Continue reading

Sequim City Council tempted by civic center site offer

SEQUIM -- Developer Jerry Hann extended the invitation, and the city seized it fast. Hann, builder of the Solana housing and commercial development near Sequim's… Continue reading

Clallam: Car hits utility pole, knocks out power for dozen

Electricity was cut to about a dozen customers of the Clallam County Public Utility District about 8:30 p.m. Saturday after an automobile struck a utility… Continue reading

Jefferson: Proposal would decrease speed limit on Cape George Road

PORT TOWNSEND -- A study is under way to determine if a 50 mph speed limit on a section of Cape George Road should be… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Removal of crash vehicle put off by weather

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- The weather must improve before Olympic National Park officials can determine what to do with a 1993 Jeep Cherokee that plunged… Continue reading

PT gears up for annual Winter Woodstock festival

PORT TOWNSEND -- Love and Peace. A New Dimension. Throw in a pink flamingo, and you have the key to understanding Winter Woodstock posters. "There's… Continue reading

Sequim: Dirt bike riders defend use of Burnt Hill for hobby

SEQUIM -- Burnt Hill has long been a hot spot for dirt bikers like Suzy Traband. She likes to get together with her girlfriends for… Continue reading

West End: Quillayute Valley, company agree to start statewide virtual high school

FORKS -- If all parties sign on the dotted line, high school students across Washington will be able to enroll in a publicly funded virtual… Continue reading