Daily Update Newsletter

PREP BASKETBALL: Chimacum, Sequim girls split pair; Sequim boys also split

The Chimacum basketball girls split a pair of games at the Blaine Holiday Invitational, narrowly losing to Vashon 40-36, but coming back to… Continue reading

State Supreme Court upholds stormwater rules

A state Supreme Court decision has upheld stricter stormwater rules for building projects. The Daily Herald reported the decision is… Continue reading

Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County offers workshops for survivors

Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County is kicking off the new year with its biannual series, “Survivors Workshops: Practical Advice for Living Alone.”… Continue reading

Shielded Native American sites thrust into debate over dams

Shielded Native American sites thrust into debate over dams

A little-known federal program that avoids publicizing its accomplishments to protect from looters the thousands of… Continue reading

Shielded Native American sites thrust into debate over dams

Seattle company working to give inmates better future

For more than 50 years, a Seattle company has hired inmates who are looking for a better future. Forever… Continue reading

Costco worker, wearing elf hat, performs life-saving CPR

Dec. 23 was a day of firsts for longtime Costco employee Mathew Rios — he typically… Continue reading

PREP HOOPS: Port Angeles boys, girls, Forks boys all split at tourneys

PREP HOOPS: Port Angeles boys, girls, Forks boys all split at tourneys

The Port Angeles Roughriders split a pair of games at their holiday tournament, crushing Rochester 61-21, then losing to a good R.A.… Continue reading

PREP HOOPS: Port Angeles boys, girls, Forks boys all split at tourneys
PREP HOOPS: Neah Bay boys getting back on track

PREP HOOPS: Neah Bay boys getting back on track

The defending 1B state champion Neah Bay basketball boys got off to a sluggish start this season, but they heated up in… Continue reading

PREP HOOPS: Neah Bay boys getting back on track
An aerial photo shows the wreckage of Bernhoft’s Cessna 182 in a wooded area near Quilcene. (KOMO-News)

Two Sequim residents and two children killed in plane crash

Federal officials on Saturday scoured a Thorndyke Creek ravine where an eyewitness reported that a small aircraft “just dropped from the sky” Thursday… Continue reading

An aerial photo shows the wreckage of Bernhoft’s Cessna 182 in a wooded area near Quilcene. (KOMO-News)
PDN photographer remembers the snowstorm of 1996

PDN photographer remembers the snowstorm of 1996

My first thoughts upon looking out the window were “I’ve seen worse.” Little did I realize that most of my colleagues and… Continue reading

PDN photographer remembers the snowstorm of 1996
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Blankets of snow, measuring as much as three feet deep in parts of Port Angeles with greater amounts in surrounding areas, covers south Lincoln Street in this file photo taken in the wake of a snowstorm that blasted the North Olympic Peninsula on Dec. 28-29, 1996.

White Christmas week: Snowstorm of 1996 remembered 20 years later

Twenty years later, the snowstorm of 1996 brings back memories of a one-two punch that brought several feet of snow to Seattle… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Blankets of snow, measuring as much as three feet deep in parts of Port Angeles with greater amounts in surrounding areas, covers south Lincoln Street in this file photo taken in the wake of a snowstorm that blasted the North Olympic Peninsula on Dec. 28-29, 1996.
Carla Parke and Jon Bernhoft

Friends of Sequim pilot, fiancee mourn

Sequim Sunrise Rotary members, friends and family are searching for answers as they mourn the loss of longtime Sequim pharmacist and pilot Jon… Continue reading

Carla Parke and Jon Bernhoft

Christmas tree recycling offered on North Olympic Peninsula

Once the decorations are taken down, Christmas trees can be recycled for compost at several North Olympic Peninsula locations. Bundled trees that are cut into… Continue reading

Dungeness crabbers on strike from California to Canada

Some consumers may have to settle for not-as-fresh Dungeness crab and others could wait a little… Continue reading

Gingerbread houses on display in Port Townsend

Gingerbread houses on display in Port Townsend

The last of 10 entries into the Port Townsend annual Gingerbread House Contest are now on display, with judging for the best… Continue reading

Gingerbread houses on display in Port Townsend
Peninsula Home Fund recipient gives back after aid

Peninsula Home Fund recipient gives back after aid

Doug Platten crosses himself, in-the-name-of-the-father-son-holy spirit way. But for this lapsed Catholic, it’s a gesture not so much of religiosity as of… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund recipient gives back after aid

Prosecutors await test results in Port Angeles pedestrian death

The Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is awaiting DNA test results on a trail of blood drops leading to the body of… Continue reading

Red-naped Sapsucker — Sally Harris

Rare red-naped sapsucker photographed near Sequim

Sally Harris had her camera focused on a Stellar’s Jay when she saw a flash of red out of the corner of her… Continue reading

Red-naped Sapsucker — Sally Harris

EYE ON CLALLAM: County panel to hear about emergency management plan

The three Clallam County commissioners will hear a briefing on the county’s comprehensive emergency management plan Tuesday. The work session will begin at 9 a.m.… Continue reading

EYE ON JEFFERSON: County commissoners to urge replacement option for Elwha River bridge

The three Jefferson County commissioners will consider a letter to the state Department of Transportation advocating a replacement option for the Elwha River bridge on… Continue reading