Port Angeles Mayor Kate Dexter is one of several local people who helped pluck a winning duck from a pickup truck on Sunday at Port Angeles City Pier. There was 36 ducks to be plucked from six Wilder Toyotas. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

Duck Derby event brings in new record

Proceeds to benefit students seeking medical careers

Port Angeles Mayor Kate Dexter is one of several local people who helped pluck a winning duck from a pickup truck on Sunday at Port Angeles City Pier. There was 36 ducks to be plucked from six Wilder Toyotas. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

Jefferson County to move its fire danger

Risk level to increase to moderate June 1

Woman flown to hospital after rollover crash

A woman was flown to a Seattle hospital after the car she was driving left the road and rolled over in a… Continue reading

Bill Schlichting of Wilder Toyota holds up the rubber duck belonging to winner Colleen WIlliams of Port Angeles at the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby held at City Pier on Sunday. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)

Lucky duck

Bill Schlichting, Wilder Toyota sales manager, holds up the rubber duck belonging to Colleen Williams of Port Angeles, winner of the 2025 Toyota Corolla, at… Continue reading

Bill Schlichting of Wilder Toyota holds up the rubber duck belonging to winner Colleen WIlliams of Port Angeles at the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby held at City Pier on Sunday. (Dave Logan/For Peninsula Daily News)
State lawmakers have delayed full funding for the Simdars Road Interchange to at least 2031 as the state faces a budget shortfall for the next four years and other transportation projects have a higher priority. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

Sequim corridor project delayed

Budget shortfall, priorities lead to decision

State lawmakers have delayed full funding for the Simdars Road Interchange to at least 2031 as the state faces a budget shortfall for the next four years and other transportation projects have a higher priority. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group file)

Superintendent marks 20 years of service

QVSD principals highlight goals and challenges

Power outage scheduled in east Port Angeles

Clallam County Public Utility District has announced a power outage from 10 tonight (Sunday) until 6 a.m. Monday east of Port Angeles.… Continue reading

Honors symposium set for Monday at Peninsula College

The public is invited to the Peninsula College Honors Symposium at 10 a.m. Monday. Honors students will present their capstone projects in… Continue reading

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Neah Bay hires new chief of police

Bruner is first woman for top public safety role

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A lab mix waits in the rain for the start of the 90th Rhody Festival Pet Parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Thursday. The festival’s main parade, from Uptown to downtown, is scheduled for 1 p.m. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Pet parade

A lab mix waits in the rain for the start of the 90th Rhody Festival Pet Parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Thursday. The festival’s… Continue reading

A lab mix waits in the rain for the start of the 90th Rhody Festival Pet Parade in Uptown Port Townsend on Thursday. The festival’s main parade, from Uptown to downtown, is scheduled for 1 p.m. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Port Townsend publisher prints sci-fi writer’s work

Winter Texts’ sixth poetry collection of Ursula K. Le Guin

Time bank concept comes to Peninsula

Members can trade hours of skills in two counties

Bliss Morris of Chimacum, a float builder and driver of the Rhody float, sits in the driver’s seat on Thursday as he checks out sight lines in the 60-foot float he will be piloting in the streets of Port Townsend during the upcoming 90th Rhody Parade on Saturday. Rhody volunteer Mike Ridgway of Port Townsend looks on. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Final touches

Bliss Morris of Chimacum, a float builder and driver of the Rhody float, sits in the driver’s seat on Thursday as he checks out sight… Continue reading

Bliss Morris of Chimacum, a float builder and driver of the Rhody float, sits in the driver’s seat on Thursday as he checks out sight lines in the 60-foot float he will be piloting in the streets of Port Townsend during the upcoming 90th Rhody Parade on Saturday. Rhody volunteer Mike Ridgway of Port Townsend looks on. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Craft sessions set to make gifts for Canoe Journey

The public is invited to help create gifts for Canoe Journey participants during a craft session from 9 a.m. to noon on… Continue reading

Fireworks not likely for Port Angeles on Fourth

Development at port bars launch from land

Jefferson County, YMCA partner with volunteers to build skate park

Agencies could break ground this summer in Quilcene

Peninsula Behavioral Health is bracing for Medicaid cuts

CEO: Program funds 85 percent of costs

Kathy Moses of Port Angeles hammers in stakes that will be used to support a cover for strawberry starts and other plants in her plot in the Fifth Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. Moses was working in a light rain during Thursday’s gardening endeavor. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Plant protection

Kathy Moses of Port Angeles hammers in stakes that will be used to support a cover for strawberry starts and other plants in her plot… Continue reading

Kathy Moses of Port Angeles hammers in stakes that will be used to support a cover for strawberry starts and other plants in her plot in the Fifth Street Community Garden in Port Angeles. Moses was working in a light rain during Thursday’s gardening endeavor. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)