Port Angeles: Port director pick raises new controversy

PORT ANGELES -- A prominent business group has sent a letter to Port of Port Angeles commissioners asking them to rescind the controversial selection of… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Search for plane continues

The U.S. Air Force and the Oregon Civil Air Patrol continue to search for a small plane that disappeared last week over southern Oregon on… Continue reading

Sequim: Teacher convicted in child pornography case

SEQUIM -- A Sequim Community School Alternative Education Program teacher was found guilty Tuesday on 10 counts of child pornography by a jury in U.S.… Continue reading

West End: Makah tribal elections today

NEAH BAY -- After a two-day delay caused by road-closing mudslides, Makah tribal members will head to the polls today for council elections. Rosella Johnson,… Continue reading

2001 Peninsula Home Fund helps Clallam, Jefferson residents

A grandmother caring for two small children received help with her utility bills. An out-of-work logger got money to obtain prescribed medicine. Material was provided… Continue reading

Clallam: County dismisses proposed annexation alternatives

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County won't pursue any of three annexation alternatives proposed last month by Bay Loop Neighborhood Association President Francis Cummings. Cummings' organization… Continue reading

Clallam: County drops tax from farmland preservation measure, adds timber lands

Is there another answer -- instead of a new tax -- to save county farmlands from developers? Clallam County commissioners today will consider a revised… Continue reading

Jefferson: Glen Cove industrial area could be doubled

PORT TOWNSEND -- Glen Cove could double in size by spring under a strategy discussed Monday by Jefferson County commissioners. The commissioners instructed Community Development… Continue reading

Jefferson: Remapping commissioner district fall along party lines

All politics is local, said Tip O'Neill, the late former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. So it was no surprise Monday when a… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Advisory committee gives nod to Oak Street conference center

PORT ANGELES -- A city advisory group that has been studying two proposals for a conference center in downtown Port Angeles made its recommendation Monday… Continue reading

West End: Dynamite fails to unclog U.S. 101 culvert

State Department of Transportation crews used dynamite in an attempt to unstop a clogged culvert Monday on U.S. Highway 101 near the Elwha River west… Continue reading

Peninsula: Caught! Reporter speeds through traffic school

It was 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. Traffic school was about to begin. Three-and-a-half months earlier, I had been stopped for going 39 mph in a… Continue reading

Peninsula: High wind and heavy rains knock out power, roads, ferry

PORT ANGELES -- Heavy rains overloaded city storm drains Sunday night as high winds knocked out power across the West End. The Elwha River and… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Council to discuss trail

PORT ANGELES -- The City Council will discuss a proposed easement through the Rayonier property to connect the Waterfront Trail to the Olympic Discovery Trail… Continue reading

2001 Peninsula Home Fund helps Clallam, Jefferson residents

A grandmother caring for two small children received help with her utility bills. An out-of-work logger got money to obtain prescribed medicine. Material was provided… Continue reading

Moviemakers need help to bring rain to North Olympic Peninsula

PORT TOWNSEND -- It wasn't a dark and stormy night as "Ring" production wrapped up Friday night. The multimillion-dollar DreamWorks SKG film had to simulate… Continue reading

Olympic National Park: Crews brave thrills, chills and aging equipment to plow Hurricane Ridge Road

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Les Peterson lowers the massive head of a Stewart & Stevenson front-discharge snow blower into an untouched 5-foot drift, shooting plumes… Continue reading

Port Townsend: State ferry idled because of dock mishap

Ferry service between Port Townsend and Keystone was suspended Saturday after the Klickitat damaged part of the Keystone dock while trying to navigate high winds… Continue reading

Sequim: Prosecutors studying whether to press charges on couple accused of neglecting more than 80 cats

Prosecutors are studying evidence to decide whether to file charges against a Sequim couple accused of neglecting more than 80 cats in their possession. Animal… Continue reading

Clallam: Former Port Angeles couple seek pact to send at-risk youth to ranch in Montana

A former Port Angeles couple are contracting with Clallam County to send at-risk youth to their newly opened Montana home for boys. If the contract… Continue reading