Daily Update Newsletter

Northwest Wine Cheese Tour this weekend

Spring is bursting out all over the North Olympic Peninsula, including inside the region’s nine artisan wineries and cideries. The public is invited to visit… Continue reading

Kilmer hears from organic farmers on Peninsula

Kilmer hears from organic farmers on Peninsula

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer heard criticism of the farm bill during a visit to Jefferson County. Kilmer, a Democrat living in Gig Harbor… Continue reading

Kilmer hears from organic farmers on Peninsula

Peninsula jobless rate drops in March

North Olympic Peninsula jobless rates fell by one-half of 1 percentage point in March as Clallam and Jefferson county employers added an estimated… Continue reading

Sunnyside Avenue construction set to finish Friday

Sunnyside Avenue construction set to finish Friday

The final pavement work along Sunnyside Avenue, which began Monday, is expected to be finished Friday. Jordan Excavating of Port Angeles crew members… Continue reading

Sunnyside Avenue construction set to finish Friday
PREP SOCCER: Sequim beats PA 5-1; will play for league title Friday

PREP SOCCER: Sequim beats PA 5-1; will play for league title Friday

Earlier this season, the Port Angeles soccer boys easily handled Sequim, beating them 4-0. This is an entirely different Sequim team now.… Continue reading

PREP SOCCER: Sequim beats PA 5-1; will play for league title Friday
PREP ROUNDUP: Riders baseball wins; seizes first place

PREP ROUNDUP: Riders baseball wins; seizes first place

Port Angeles seized sole control of first place in the Olympic League 2A Division baseball title chase with a come-from-behind 5-4 win on… Continue reading

PREP ROUNDUP: Riders baseball wins; seizes first place

OUTDOORS: All you need to know about shrimp

ALL SEVEN SHRIMP species commonly harvested by sport shrimpers typically undergo a sex change in their life cycles at the bottom of the Puget Sound… Continue reading

Police: Port Angeles officer was distracted during collision

A Port Angeles police officer was distracted when he hit the back of a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the driver of which… Continue reading

Chief: Clallam County Fire District 2 in need of volunteers

Chief: Clallam County Fire District 2 in need of volunteers

A four-year, $168,000 federal grant that funds recruitment and training for Clallam County Fire District 2 volunteer firefighters ends May 3, Chief… Continue reading

Chief: Clallam County Fire District 2 in need of volunteers
Jefferson commissioners seek more info for public records policy

Jefferson commissioners seek more info for public records policy

The Jefferson County commissioners continue to deliberate a proposed Public Records Act compliance policy and ordinance for public records costs. No decision… Continue reading

Jefferson commissioners seek more info for public records policy
Port Townsend kitchen tour to highlight nine homes

Port Townsend kitchen tour to highlight nine homes

Nine kitchens will be on the 21st annual AAUW/UWF Kitchen Tour on Saturday. The tour, Port Townsend Kitchens and Beyond, which is… Continue reading

Port Townsend kitchen tour to highlight nine homes
Pyrosome population again venturing north of California

Pyrosome population again venturing north of California

They’re back. A lot of them. And they’re reproducing. The invasion of the pyrosomes, gelatinous,… Continue reading

  • Apr 25, 2018
  • By Steve Benham KATU-TV of Portland, Ore.
Pyrosome population again venturing north of California

Judge rejects lawmakers’ change to deadly force measure

Washington lawmakers violated the state Constitution when they used an unusual procedure to make it easier to prosecute police for… Continue reading

  • Apr 25, 2018
  • The Associated Press

Oregon officials knew of abuse case against family that went off cliff

Oregon child welfare officials knew the family in an SUV that plunged off a California cliff had faced a… Continue reading

  • Apr 25, 2018
  • The Associated Press
PREP BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: Diamond dustup today between Port Angeles and Sequim

PREP BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: Diamond dustup today between Port Angeles and Sequim

A banner week for the Port Angeles and Sequim baseball teams resumes today when the rainshadow rivals meet up on the Wolves’ home… Continue reading

PREP BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: Diamond dustup today between Port Angeles and Sequim
Dungeness Heights group files another lawsuit against radio tower

Dungeness Heights group files another lawsuit against radio tower

Dungeness Heights Homeowners has sued over a land-use certificate that allows a 150-foot radio-cell tower to operate in the hamlet north of Sequim… Continue reading

Dungeness Heights group files another lawsuit against radio tower

Silverdale man killed in Blyn-area wreck

Two passengers were released from Olympic Medical Center on Sunday after a Blyn-area vehicle wreck Saturday night that killed the driver, a 21-year-old… Continue reading

Clallam commissioners expected to raise pay for elected officials

The Clallam County Board of Commissioners is expected to approve a resolution today changing how the county’s non-judicial elected officials are paid… Continue reading

Jury deliberates in child molestation trial of Port Angeles man

A jury continues its deliberations today after a man who testified at his own Clallam County Superior Court trial last week on… Continue reading

PHOTO: Environmental affairs at Peninsula College

PHOTO: Environmental affairs at Peninsula College

Peninsula College student Kina Azmi pulls weeds from the college’s arboretum Monday. Azmi, director of environmental affairs for the Associated Student Council, was joined by… Continue reading

PHOTO: Environmental affairs at Peninsula College