Port Angeles' PAARC clinic -- a health haven for the uninsured, unemployed and unwell since August 2001 -- will move March 15 to a new… Continue reading
When PAARC turns to VIM, partly thanks to OMC, what will change beside the letters in the alphabet soup of health-care organizations? Quite a lot,… Continue reading
Rising bad debt, increasing charity care and the shortfall between Medicare/Medicaid payments and actual costs will drive a 5 percent rise in charges at Olympic… Continue reading
The public process on a controversial water plan will sound a lot more like "drip, drip, drip" than "whoosh," Clallam County commissioners indicated Monday. Reviewing… Continue reading
Clallam County Republicans are ready to party. Local Democrats will wait until Wednesday to celebrate. Such were the parties' last-minute party plans Monday as politicians… Continue reading
Two men and three women -- including a newcomer to Clallam County -- have applied for the county treasurer's job that will be filled by… Continue reading
So just how healthy for folks and fish is the Elwha River? It's "impaired." How about Peabody Creek? "Highly impaired." Jimmycomelately Creek? It's "impaired," too.… Continue reading
SEKIU -- The prognosis for a new operating room in Forks Community Hospital has gotten a bit brighter, thanks to Clallam County commissioners. They approved… Continue reading
Clallam County Commissioner Steve Tharinger announced Tuesday that he has lymphoma -- cancer of the lymph nodes -- and has begun chemotherapy at Virginia Mason… Continue reading
"It was just a ghost town," said Sue Price. "Now there's nothing left for the ghosts." Price spoke of the logging hamlet of Sappho and… Continue reading
Damn the milfoil, full speed ahead! Ahead, that is, not just with damning the non-native underwater weed, but with pulling it out, covering it up… Continue reading
"Hold your water" was the Clallam County commissioners' message Monday to citizens awaiting a decision on a controversial plan for lands drained to the Elwha… Continue reading
Clallam County wants to take two bites out of Alice in Wonderland's mushroom. One side, you recall, made Alice grow. The other made her shrink.… Continue reading
FORKS -- For sale: A gem of a business. Longtime Forks jeweler Lloyd George is retiring, hoping someone will buy his business and reap the… Continue reading
You loved them in the primary election, so much that they ran unopposed. Now you can vote for them again, even though they still have… Continue reading
Clallam County will close the 91-year-old Elwha River bridge at the end of the month to drill through its deck and take soil samples, an… Continue reading
Clallam County commissioners will study the Elwha-Dungeness Watershed Plan for another week before approving the controversial proposal or sending it back to planners. Repudiating it… Continue reading
East side, west side . . . neither likes Port Angeles very much. At a hearing Tuesday on proposed updates to Clallam County's growth management… Continue reading
There's no smokin' in the boys' room, the girls' room or the hearing room -- but you might light up in the gazebo. Gazebos --… Continue reading
Well-water users in the Elwha and Dungeness valleys can continue their current consumption under a proposed water resources plan, a self-described "water lawyer" said Monday.… Continue reading
