Cheerleading coach vows to discuss problems with Forks High School principal at meeting tonight

FORKS -- The veteran high school cheerleading coach says she will openly discuss problems she says she's had with embattled Forks High School Principal Steve… Continue reading

Clallam PUD developing water conservation rates for businesses

PORT ANGELES -- A revised conservation water rate proposal that includes businesses as well as residences was presented Monday afternoon to Clallam County Public Utility… Continue reading

County commissioners roll back Tri-Area to rural development standards

PORT TOWNSEND -- Responding to a Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board order last week, Jefferson County commissioners Monday approved returning the Irondale-Port Hadlock area… Continue reading

Design detectives uncover layers of colorful history — “it’s interior archaeology”

PORT TOWNSEND -- Walk down Water Street, and you'll see the town's Victorian heritage manifested in muscular gray stone and brick. But a softer side… Continue reading

Port Angeles police pitching downtown resource officer proposal

PORT ANGELES -- A police officer dedicated solely to the downtown area -- similar to one stationed on the high school campus -- could be… Continue reading

Port Townsend Paper mill plans to cut water consumption

PORT TOWNSEND -- The president and chief executive officer of Port Townsend Paper Corp. anticipates that the county's largest private employer will dramatically reduce water… Continue reading

Sequim School Board member Schmidt quits

SEQUIM -- School Board member Suzi Schmidt resigned Monday night in a letter read during a board meeting, citing her failure to accomplish "goals and… Continue reading

Affordable housing options disappear in Sequim

SEQUIM -- In discussions about Sequim real estate, the phrase constantly bandied about is that there are 1,000 units of housing somewhere in the planning… Continue reading

Board rebukes Jefferson County on Tri-Area urban growth area

In a final decision that throws Jefferson County's Tri-Area planning back eight years, a state growth management panel has concluded the county's designated Port Hadlock-Irondale… Continue reading

Forks land a bargain, but still a seller’s market

FORKS -- Never better. That's how two Forks real estate brokers describe the land market on the North Olympic Peninsula's West End. "I've been in… Continue reading

New PA dental clinic to double as college lab

PORT ANGELES -- It's a career in high demand that also pays a good salary. But for years there's been no place to pursue an… Continue reading

Skyrocketing home prices affecting Port Townsend’s residents with modest and low incomes

PORT TOWNSEND -- Although retired teacher and fisherman Ed Barcott lives comfortably in the 1887 Rose Cottage in uptown Port Townsend, he has a hard… Continue reading

Wet weather doesn’t dampen prediction of summer water shortages

OLYMPIA -- Recent rainy weather may have dampened the drought on the North Olympic Peninsula and in the rest of the Northwest, but it hasn't… Continue reading

Affordable housing at a premium in Jefferson County

It's a simple matter of limited supply and big demand in Port Townsend and Port Ludlow, where Realtors say finding a home for much less… Continue reading

Bullets, houses don’t mix

SEQUIM -- A "no shooting" zone has been established in state trust land next to Johnson Creek Road to protect nearby houses whose residents felt… Continue reading

Island watchdog continues effort to protect the environment

GARDINER -- Eleanor Stopps, Jefferson County's Citizen of the 20th Century, met with about a 100 Peninsula environmental conservationists Saturday during the Discovery Bay Day… Continue reading

Port Angeles killer cleared to move off mental hospital campus

PORT ANGELES -- Bruce Rowan, the former Olympic Medical Center emergency room doctor who bludgeoned his wife to death in 1998 and was found innocent… Continue reading

Port Angeles market climbing out of a real estate bust

PORT ANGELES -- Real estate prices here aren't riding a boom. They're climbing out of a bust. While many parts of Washington and large portions… Continue reading

Proposed development north of Wal-Mart stirs worry

SEQUIM -- A large development proposed on Priest Road just north of Wal-Mart is raising red flags with several residents and others -- the same… Continue reading

That noise you hear is the housing boom on the North Olympic Peninsula

First of two parts There is no housing boom on the North Olympic Peninsula. The loud noise you heard when you opened your property assessment… Continue reading