Daily Update Newsletter

Survivor of Golden Gate Bridge jump to speak in Port Angeles

Survivor of Golden Gate Bridge jump to speak in Port Angeles

Golden Gate Bridge suicide survivor Kevin Hines is bringing his story of strength and hope to Clallam County, where death by suicide… Continue reading

Survivor of Golden Gate Bridge jump to speak in Port Angeles
Contest forms for Jefferson PUD seat

Contest forms for Jefferson PUD seat

A contest has shaped up for a seat on the Jefferson County Public Utility Commission. Tom Brotherton of Quilcene and Dan Toepper… Continue reading

Contest forms for Jefferson PUD seat
Crews work to free gray whale from fishing gear off La Push

Crews work to free gray whale from fishing gear off La Push

Biologists on Wednesday were working to untangle a juvenile gray whale that had become stuck in fishing gear more than 15 miles… Continue reading

Crews work to free gray whale from fishing gear off La Push

Port Angeles grandmother arrested after alleged road rage

A 71-year-old woman was arrested for investigation of second-degree assault and resisting arrest for allegedly ramming her sedan into an SUV in… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Quilcene baseball stays alive on extra-innings walk-off home run

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Quilcene baseball stays alive on extra-innings walk-off home run

The Quilcene Rangers baseball team won in about the most dramatic fashion possible to keep its season… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Quilcene baseball stays alive on extra-innings walk-off home run
Sequim Irrigation Festival Royalty Court welcomes new princess

Sequim Irrigation Festival Royalty Court welcomes new princess

A new princess has joined the 2018 Irrigation Festival Royalty Court for the remainder of the festival year. Liliana Williams was crowned princess… Continue reading

Sequim Irrigation Festival Royalty Court welcomes new princess
Authorities respond to entangled whale near La Push

Authorities respond to entangled whale near La Push

Authorities said crews were responding to a whale that was entangled in fishing gear off the Washington coast. The Coast Guard said… Continue reading

  • May 9, 2018
Authorities respond to entangled whale near La Push

Guilty plea issued in boy’s death: Caretaker to be sentenced for homicide by abuse

A Quileute tribal member sobbed quietly Tuesday as she pleaded guilty to homicide by abuse for killing a 2½-year-old family member in… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend to rethink Point Hudson jetty funds

All four bids to replace the Point Hudson south jetty were over cost estimates, so Port of Port Townsend commissioners delayed action… Continue reading

Port Angeles man arrested after gunshots he said were accidental

Port Angeles man arrested after gunshots he said were accidental

Port Angeles police arrested a man for investigation of reckless endangerment after he shot a handgun and struck an unoccupied car and… Continue reading

Port Angeles man arrested after gunshots he said were accidental
USS Nimitz sailor missing in Olympic National Forest

USS Nimitz sailor missing in Olympic National Forest

Authorities were searching Tuesday for a 24-year-old hiker who went missing in the Buckhorn Wilderness south of Sequim. Jeremiah Adams, a… Continue reading

USS Nimitz sailor missing in Olympic National Forest
Arsonist sentenced to more than 10 years in prison

Arsonist sentenced to more than 10 years in prison

A Skagit County man who grew up on the West End was sentenced Tuesday to 10½ years in prison after the woman… Continue reading

Arsonist sentenced to more than 10 years in prison
PREP SOFTBALL: Sequim ends one streak, PA’s streak still alive

PREP SOFTBALL: Sequim ends one streak, PA’s streak still alive

Sequim softball gets some bragging rights, while Port Angeles gets to keep its league unbeaten streak intact. Playing a fill-in game Monday so… Continue reading

PREP SOFTBALL: Sequim ends one streak, PA’s streak still alive

Services for Quinault elder set today

Services for Quinault elder Barbara ‘Gee’ Capoeman will be today. Services will be at 10 a.m. at Coleman Mortuary in Hoquiam with a… Continue reading

Sour notes in tsunami siren song: Clallam issues false alarm, Jefferson chimes fail to sound

Sour notes in tsunami siren song: Clallam issues false alarm, Jefferson chimes fail to sound

The monthly tsunami siren tests on the North Olympic Peninsula did not go as planned Monday, with an erroneous tsunami warning in… Continue reading

Sour notes in tsunami siren song: Clallam issues false alarm, Jefferson chimes fail to sound

State panel sanctions former physician assistant

A state medical panel of doctors and members of the public has sanctioned a physician assistant who worked on the Quileute Tribe’s… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend opens bids for Point Hudson jetty project

Port of Port Townsend opens bids for Point Hudson jetty project

Four sealed bids were opened Monday afternoon by the Port of Port Townsend for the Point Hudson south jetty replacement project. American… Continue reading

Port of Port Townsend opens bids for Point Hudson jetty project
NEWS BRIEFS: 23 graduate from emergency medical technician class … and other items

NEWS BRIEFS: 23 graduate from emergency medical technician class … and other items

Jefferson County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Trauma Care Council’s 2018 Basic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) class graduated 23 students March 24.… Continue reading

NEWS BRIEFS: 23 graduate from emergency medical technician class … and other items
MOUNTAIN BIKING: Two Port Angeles winners at second NW Cup

MOUNTAIN BIKING: Two Port Angeles winners at second NW Cup

Two Port Angeles riders won their classes in the second running of the Northwest Cup downhill bike races at Dry Hill this… Continue reading

MOUNTAIN BIKING: Two Port Angeles winners at second NW Cup

EYE ON JEFFERSON: County mulls pact for Rhody Fest carnival

The three Jefferson County commissioners will consider a special facilities use agreement for the Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival carnival at a meeting that begins at… Continue reading