Daily Update Newsletter

First Night 2018 celebration to welcome new year in Port Townsend

First Night 2018 celebration to welcome new year in Port Townsend

Port Townsend’s First Night family festival of arts and entertainment will be held Sunday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., concluding with… Continue reading

First Night 2018 celebration to welcome new year in Port Townsend
Korean Women’s Association opens supported living facility in Sequim

Korean Women’s Association opens supported living facility in Sequim

For Sulja Warnick, it’s simple: “We’re all connected, somehow.” When Warnick and others helped found the Korean Women’s Association in Pierce County more… Continue reading

Korean Women’s Association opens supported living facility in Sequim
Sentencing reset in methamphetamine, heroin case

Sentencing reset in methamphetamine, heroin case

The sentencing of Gerald Neil Walkup — who pleaded guilty last month with multiple drug, weapons and assault charges in connection to… Continue reading

Sentencing reset in methamphetamine, heroin case
Kent police hit road block in probe of Port Angeles man’s death

Kent police hit road block in probe of Port Angeles man’s death

Police have hit an impasse in an investigation into the fatal beating of a former Port Angeles man at a SeaTac-area hotel. Christopher… Continue reading

Kent police hit road block in probe of Port Angeles man’s death
Fallen Jefferson County firefighters’ names added to national memorial

Fallen Jefferson County firefighters’ names added to national memorial

Two Jefferson County firefighters who died fighting fires more than 50 years ago are now honored at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Park… Continue reading

Fallen Jefferson County firefighters’ names added to national memorial
Polar plunges offer invigorating start to year

Polar plunges offer invigorating start to year

The brave, the foolish and the very stout of heart are invited to start the year off by taking a dip in… Continue reading

Polar plunges offer invigorating start to year
KCPT offers a Dickens holiday classic this weekend

KCPT offers a Dickens holiday classic this weekend

For the perfect post-holiday theater experience, the public is invited to Key City Public Theatre’s one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic,… Continue reading

KCPT offers a Dickens holiday classic this weekend

OTA announces auditions for ‘Starting Here Starting Now’ musical revue

Auditions for Olympic Theatre Arts’ second-stage musical, “Starting Here Starting Now,” will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 6,… Continue reading

Forks man facing federal drug charges

Forks man facing federal drug charges

A Forks man, who police arrested over the summer after finding a golf-ball-sized amount of methamphetamine in a baby’s diaper and the child’s… Continue reading

Forks man facing federal drug charges
Some Clallam, Jefferson 9-1-1 calls going to wrong county

Some Clallam, Jefferson 9-1-1 calls going to wrong county

There’s a chance that 9-1-1 calls made from cellphones across the North Olympic Peninsula will be routed to the wrong dispatch center,… Continue reading

Some Clallam, Jefferson 9-1-1 calls going to wrong county
Barry Swegle satisfies $734,566 judgment against him

Barry Swegle satisfies $734,566 judgment against him

Forgiveness and an apology were part of the deal. Barry Alan Swegle, a Port Angeles man who, wielding a bulldozer, laid waste… Continue reading

Barry Swegle satisfies $734,566 judgment against him

Women charged with burglary after Christmas morning theft in Port Hadlock

A pair of women accused of burglarizing a Port Hadlock home Christmas morning were charged with residential burglary in Jefferson County Superior… Continue reading

Funtastic responds to lawsuit stemming from Ferris wheel fall in Port Townsend

Funtastic responds to lawsuit stemming from Ferris wheel fall in Port Townsend

The company being sued after three people fell from a Ferris wheel in Port Townsend last spring has officially responded to the federal… Continue reading

Funtastic responds to lawsuit stemming from Ferris wheel fall in Port Townsend

Port Angeles utility increase leaves electricity rates unchanged in 2018

Utility customers in the city of Port Angeles will pay an average of $3.59 more on monthly bills next year. Electricity rates,… Continue reading

Woman, five dogs safe after Port Angeles fire

Woman, five dogs safe after Port Angeles fire

A house fire that originated on a stovetop was knocked down by Clallam County Fire District No. 2 personnel Wednesday. The lone… Continue reading

Woman, five dogs safe after Port Angeles fire
Settlement ends dispute between Jefferson Healthcare, contractor

Settlement ends dispute between Jefferson Healthcare, contractor

The $550,000 settlement Jefferson Healthcare commissioners approved last week ends a dispute with the Bothel contractor for the hospital’s Emergency and Specialty… Continue reading

Settlement ends dispute between Jefferson Healthcare, contractor
Port Angeles renews $257,985 contract for marketing

Port Angeles renews $257,985 contract for marketing

With lodging tax revenue at an all-time high, the city of Port Angeles has renewed a contract with Vertigo Marketing to promote… Continue reading

Port Angeles renews $257,985 contract for marketing

Thieves hit dozens of mailboxes between Port Angeles, Sequim

At least 40 rural mailboxes were invaded Tuesday night and possibly into early Wednesday morning, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies… Continue reading

Clallam unemployment rises slightly while Jefferson’s rate is unchanged

Clallam County unemployment rose from 5.6 percent to 5.9 percent in November while Jefferson County’s jobless rate held steady at 5.4 percent,… Continue reading

2017 SPORTS IN REVIEW: It was the year of the Lefties in Port Angeles

2017 SPORTS IN REVIEW: It was the year of the Lefties in Port Angeles

It was a year of Lefties, hurdlers, grapplers and the Cardinal. A year of records being shattered in soccer and a year in which the… Continue reading

2017 SPORTS IN REVIEW: It was the year of the Lefties in Port Angeles