Sequim: Merchants ponder how to bring some of Lavender Festival’s success downtown

SEQUIM -- While the Dungeness Valley's many lavender farms recoup from three days of nonstop visitors, merchants in downtown Sequim are wondering how to rebound… Continue reading

Sequim: Young softball player on life-support after car crash in Seattle area

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS SEQUIM -- A Sequim Middle School student, critically injured in a car crash after her all-star team competed in a softball tournament,… Continue reading

Clallam: Sequim mayor give high marks to Lavender Festival

SEQUIM -- Mayor Walt Schubert on Sunday lauded the relocation of the seventh annual Celebrate Lavender Festival's Street Fair to Fir Street, saying the event's… Continue reading

Gardiner: Woman, child hurt in crash on U.S. Highway 101

A woman and a toddler were injured late Sunday afternoon and airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after vehicle in which they were passengers… Continue reading

Peninsula: Paddle Journey canoes head for Clallam Bay

Makah tribal canoeists will lead more than 25 canoes from Northwest and First Nations tribes participating in the 2003 Paddle Journey to Clallam Bay today.… Continue reading

Peninsula: State’s annual gypsy moth trapping in full swing

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The state's annual gypsy moth hunt is under way, with up to 40 trappers setting 19,000 traps statewide -- including 750 in… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Parents irked at school district’s late-start plan

PORT ANGELES -- Some parents are outraged at the school district's plan for a late starting time one day each week. "I am concerned about… Continue reading

Clallam: Plea offer extended to driver in New Year’s Eve crash that killed three people

PORT ANGELES -- Prosecutors have extended a plea offer to Mary Kristine Kniskern, charged in Clallam County Superior Court with vehicular homicide in the deaths… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Best Western owner buys land next door

PORT ANGELES -- A motel owner embroiled in a controversy over the proposed waterfront conference center is exploring ways to compete against it. Tod McClaskey… Continue reading

Sequim: Swiss couple ordered deported by U.S. government

SEQUIM -- Nicole Derung is a 3-year-old like many others, coveting a collection of plastic jewelry and stickers with Pokemon, Barbie and SpongeBob themes. Her… Continue reading

Street fair relocation hurts business, Sequim merchants say

SEQUIM -- While thousands of lavender lovers packed Fir Street on Saturday to celebrate Sequim lavender, downtown merchants' moods -- and their cash registers --… Continue reading

Sunday Showcase: “Flotsam event of the century” comes to a close on Peninsula beaches

Beachcombers on the Olympic coastline reaped a bonanza in late spring when unusual weather conditions littered sands with treasures normally hoarded by the sea. Treasure… Continue reading

Sunday Showcase: Sea delivers 10-year-old message from Japanese students to park ranger

When Olympic National Park Ranger Tristan Smith set out to walk Rialto Beach on May 5, he expected to find a pristine wilderness beach, free… Continue reading

Sunday Showcase: Years of beachcombing yields a home full of “treasures”

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS FORKS -- John G. Anderson knows more about what is in the sea than most people and has tons of evidence to… Continue reading

Thousands flock to Sequim-Dungeness Valley to smell the lavender

SEQUIM -- Barbara Jannsen of Woodinville and Jesilyn Borman of Mill Creek had just polished off servings of lavender ice cream on a sunny afternoon.… Continue reading

Church revival: Methodists celebrate 150 years in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND -- Members of Trinity United Methodist Church will put down their paintbrushes, shovels and hammers to celebrate the congregation's 150th birthday Sunday in… Continue reading

Clallam: No West Nile virus found in dead birds tested

Laboratory tests of dead birds found in Clallam County have failed to turn up evidence of West Nile virus. But the county's epidemiologist said testing… Continue reading

Great Peninsula events this weekend: Celebrate Lavender Festival in Sequim, Quileute Days in LaPush, Hadlock Days in Port Hadlock, Jefferson County Fly-In in Port Townsend and more!

All the information you need on this fantastic weekend on the North Olympic Peninsula appears in the Friday/Saturday PDN and especially its entertainment magazine, Peninsula… Continue reading

Jefferson: Rodgers to run for District 3 commissioner again

BRINNON -- Republican Pat Rodgers announced Thursday night that he will seek election as Jefferson County commissioner for a second time in less than a… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Graving yard soil won’t go to ex-mill site, but to west Port Angeles instead

PORT ANGELES -- Thousands of cubic yards of dirt from the state Department of Transportation's graving yard project will be trucked to a west Port… Continue reading