Daily Update Newsletter

Port Angeles Fire Department Capt. Travis McFarland, left, and firefighter/EMT Tom Muir spread landscaping bark as part of a project to beautify the landscape around the fire hall. Fire department personnel spent time on Tuesday sprucing up the station grounds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
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Fire hall landscaping

Port Angeles Fire Department Capt. Travis McFarland, left, and firefighter/EMT Tom Muir spread landscaping bark as part of a project to beautify the landscape around… Continue reading

Port Angeles Fire Department Capt. Travis McFarland, left, and firefighter/EMT Tom Muir spread landscaping bark as part of a project to beautify the landscape around the fire hall. Fire department personnel spent time on Tuesday sprucing up the station grounds. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Joint Public Safety Facility pared down

Clallam County, Port Angeles aim for bids in August

New administrators named for Port Angeles school district

The Port Angeles School District has announced new personnel to fill some of the district’s administrative positions for the 2025-2026 school year.… Continue reading

One transported to hospital after crash

A man was transported to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles following a two-vehicle collision. Robert Spencer, 73, of Port Angeles was… Continue reading

Timbul "Bvll" Cahyono's “Fake Somebody," a 4-foot by 4-foot acrylic painting.

Port Townsend Film Festival releases poster

Artwork based on acrylic painting featuring octopus

Timbul "Bvll" Cahyono's “Fake Somebody," a 4-foot by 4-foot acrylic painting.

Shepherds’ festival set Monday at Sequim grange

Clallam County 4-H, the North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild and the North Olympic Fiber Growers Association will host the Shepherds’ Festival from… Continue reading

Special filing period set in Jefferson County

The Jefferson County Auditor will conduct a special three-day filing period from 8:30 a.m. May 28 through 4:30 p.m. May 30. The… Continue reading

Three-day Juan de Fuca Festival to begin Friday

The 32nd Juan de Fuca will start at noon Friday and continue through Sunday evening. The annual festival is centered in and… Continue reading

STATE GOLF TOURNAMENT: All Olympic Peninsula boys make first-day cut

All three Olympic Peninsula boys at the 2A state golf tournament at the Riverside Golf Club in Chehalis made the first-round cut Tuesday,… Continue reading

U.S. Highway 101, pictured from the Black Diamond bridge, is set to reopen late Thursday or early Friday, the state Department of Transportation said. The section has been closed since early March for fish passage work on Tumwater Creek with a detour set up on state Highway 117. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Reopening soon

U.S. Highway 101, pictured from the Black Diamond bridge, is set to reopen late Thursday or early Friday, the state Department of Transportation said. The… Continue reading

U.S. Highway 101, pictured from the Black Diamond bridge, is set to reopen late Thursday or early Friday, the state Department of Transportation said. The section has been closed since early March for fish passage work on Tumwater Creek with a detour set up on state Highway 117. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
“Artist at Tamanowas” appears in Patricia Hagen’s one-woman show, “Into the Woods.” The exhibit, at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery in Port Townsend, is designed to feel like a walk on a forest trail. (Patricia Hagen)

‘Into the Woods’ to offer a forest walk inside an art gallery

This is the time, the artist believes, to come into the forest. Listen for the owl’s wings. Stand close to the trunk… Continue reading

“Artist at Tamanowas” appears in Patricia Hagen’s one-woman show, “Into the Woods.” The exhibit, at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery in Port Townsend, is designed to feel like a walk on a forest trail. (Patricia Hagen)

Amazon submits permits with the city of Port Angeles

Project larger than one previously proposed

Logging protest continues with climber in tree

Injunction hearing scheduled for Friday

PAT NEAL: The Olympic Peninsula driving guide

THE SIGNS OF the season are everywhere. The roar of the lawn mower, the stench of burning charcoal and the seasonal spike in gas prices… Continue reading

Port Townsend likely to see increases in recycling fees

Changes coming due to adjustments with Jefferson County Solid Waste

Three hospitalized after crash on Highway 19

Three people were taken to hospitals following a three-car collision on state Highway 19. John Pontius, 33, of Chimacum was driving a 2022… Continue reading

Colleen Williams of Port Angeles won a Toyota Corolla donated by Wilder Toyota in the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby. She said Tuesday she was shocked when Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, called her Sunday to tell her she won. “All I could say is, ‘You’re kidding me. What?” Williams said. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
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Toyota winner

Colleen Williams of Port Angeles won a Toyota Corolla donated by Wilder Toyota in the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby. She said Tuesday… Continue reading

Colleen Williams of Port Angeles won a Toyota Corolla donated by Wilder Toyota in the 36th annual Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby. She said Tuesday she was shocked when Bruce Skinner, the executive director of the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, called her Sunday to tell her she won. “All I could say is, ‘You’re kidding me. What?” Williams said. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Coach Morgan Worthington talks to her players between innings at a game last week at Dry Creek Elementary. The Roughriders go in to the state tournament Friday ranked No. 3 in the state. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

PORT ANGELES SOFTBALL: Roughriders loaded for another long run in state tournament

Last year, the Port Angeles softball team graduated superstar Natalie Robinson, who won the Olympic League MVP after hitting .483 with 12… Continue reading

Coach Morgan Worthington talks to her players between innings at a game last week at Dry Creek Elementary. The Roughriders go in to the state tournament Friday ranked No. 3 in the state. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association's Danielle Woodhouse approaches the finish line at Lake Vancouver this weekend, where she finished second in the B final of the U17 singles race. (Sean Halberg)

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: OPRA rower second at Lake Vancouver race

The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association concluded its spring season Saturday, with members competing at the US Rowing Northwest Youth Championship at Vancouver… Continue reading

The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association's Danielle Woodhouse approaches the finish line at Lake Vancouver this weekend, where she finished second in the B final of the U17 singles race. (Sean Halberg)

Overnight lane closures set east of Port Angeles

Contractors working for the state Department of Transportation will be moving barriers and putting down temporary pavement markings on U.S. Highway 101… Continue reading