Port Angeles City Council explores graving yard options

PORT ANGELES -- The state Department of Transportation is willing to meet with city officials about the future of the agency's graving yard project on… Continue reading

Union leaders urge campaign to save graving yard

PORT ANGELES -- Keeping the graving yard project here is important not just for Port Angeles and the North Olympic Peninsula, but the entire state.… Continue reading

“Exposures of the burials”

Lower Elwha Klallam Chairwoman Frances Charles says some tribal members continue to work at the Port Angeles graving yard site on "exposures of the burials,"'… Continue reading

Final Point Hudson Marina design gets green light

PORT TOWNSEND -- A final Point Hudson Marina reconfiguration and design proposal was given full-speed-ahead blessings from the Port of Port Townsend commissioners Wednesday. The… Continue reading

Highway 101 safety program gets a solemn sendoff

PORT ANGELES -- In the hushed silence of a movie theater lobby, the names of the dozens of people who have died on North Olympic… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center assistant administrator resigns

PORT ANGELES -- The resignation of Bertha Cooper, assistant administrator at Olympic Medical Center since 1998, was announced at Wednesday night's meeting of hospital commissioners.… Continue reading

Port Angeles council to discuss graving yard’s future

PORT ANGELES -- When the state Department of Transportation first proposed building its graving yard here, the concern was whether the 22.4-acre waterfront site would… Continue reading

Port Angeles graving yard project may be halted permanently

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS EXCLUSIVE OLYMPIA -- After sinking millions of dollars into the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard, the state may now simply pack up… Continue reading

Woman found slain in car; boyfriend held

A 26-year-old woman was found dead in a car outside a Port Angeles-area residence early Wednesday morning, and her boyfriend was arrested in connection with… Continue reading

Boys & Girls Clubs get a new executive director

SEQUIM -- Nearly 20 years ago, Cinnamon Falley would steal a quarter from her mother's house in a poor section of Tacoma's south end and… Continue reading

Clallam commissioners to consider numerous speed limit changes on county roads

Confidential to "NASCAR Dad": Lighten your lead foot on Lotzgesell Road. That's just one of 16 Clallam County byways where residents have requested slower speeds.… Continue reading

Come help promote Highway 101 traffic safety today

The public is invited to this afternoon's kickoff of the Driving 101 Traffic Safety Project designed to increase driver safety awareness on U.S. Highway 101… Continue reading

Historic agreement forged between fire departments

PORT TOWNSEND -- City Council members and Jefferson County Fire District No. 6 commissioners on Tuesday night unanimously approved a historic interlocal agreement to operate… Continue reading

Peninsula: Unemployment rate rises a little

Despite holiday hiring, Jefferson County's unemployment rate rose in November to 4.5 percent, from 3.9 percent the month before. But last month's figure was still… Continue reading

Poet Hamill to quit Copper Canyon Press, devote self to Poets Against the War

PORT TOWNSEND -- Poet Sam Hamill is leaving Copper Canyon Press, the publishing company he founded 32 years ago, to focus on his organization, Poets… Continue reading

Port Townsend police car tires slashed

PORT TOWNSEND -- What's the fastest way get a Port Townsend police officer's attention? Slash tires on five police cars parked right outside the Water… Continue reading

Sequim business survey shows merchants, others optimistic about area’s future

SEQUIM -- Tourism isn't nearly the factor in this area's economy that it's marketed to be. Neither is the Christmas season. Yet Sequim and Dungeness… Continue reading

Sequim: Board waters down proposed head lice policy

SEQUIM -- A no-nit policy has been nitpicked out of a School Board proposal to take a tougher stance against head lice in public schools.… Continue reading

Tribe wants all digging, including archaeological, to end at graving yard site

No digging means no digging at the Port Angeles graving yard, the Lower Elwha Klallam say -- no matter whether the excavation is for archaeology… Continue reading