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Peninsula Children’s Clinic settles into new Port Angeles site

Peninsula Children’s Clinic settles into new Port Angeles site

It’s been nearly a month since Peninsula Children’s Clinic moved to its new location, and doctors are now pretty well settled in,… Continue reading

Peninsula Children’s Clinic settles into new Port Angeles site
Police looking for missing Port Angeles teen

Police looking for missing Port Angeles teen

A Port Angeles mother is struggling to sleep at night as she searches for her 17-year-old daughter, Hannah Hendrickson, who was reported… Continue reading

Police looking for missing Port Angeles teen
Three-county summit takes on region’s opioid epidemic

Three-county summit takes on region’s opioid epidemic

An estimated 974 injection heroin users in Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap counties want help, a researcher told some 300 professionals who attended the… Continue reading

Three-county summit takes on region’s opioid epidemic
Olympic Medical Center eyes design of $7.9 million cancer center expansion

Olympic Medical Center eyes design of $7.9 million cancer center expansion

Olympic Medical Center is preparing to move forward with an estimated $7.9 million expansion of its cancer center in Sequim. The OMC hospital… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center eyes design of $7.9 million cancer center expansion
Port Angeles fire chief tells of need for more firefighters to avoid insurance hike

Port Angeles fire chief tells of need for more firefighters to avoid insurance hike

The Port Angeles Fire Department needs to hire more firefighters or the city risks a downgrade in its fire insurance rating, Chief… Continue reading

Port Angeles fire chief tells of need for more firefighters to avoid insurance hike
Authorities: Port Angeles man arrested after two police chases

Authorities: Port Angeles man arrested after two police chases

A Port Angeles man convicted of eluding police less than a year ago allegedly kidnapped a 54-year-old woman, then led law enforcement… Continue reading

Authorities: Port Angeles man arrested after two police chases
Sequim man in custody after homeowner tries to detain him at gunpoint

Sequim man in custody after homeowner tries to detain him at gunpoint

A Sequim man is in custody after authorities say a homeowner tried to hold him at gunpoint when the 31-year-old was found with… Continue reading

Sequim man in custody after homeowner tries to detain him at gunpoint
Trump doing well, says Port Angeles man who attended inauguration

Trump doing well, says Port Angeles man who attended inauguration

A Port Angeles man who attended President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration said the country’s 45th president is off to a great start in… Continue reading

Trump doing well, says Port Angeles man who attended inauguration
Japanese American recalls internment amid fears of modern parallels

Japanese American recalls internment amid fears of modern parallels

Lilly Kodama, who was one of the first Japanese Americans forced into an internment camp 75 years ago, fears the United States… Continue reading

Japanese American recalls internment amid fears of modern parallels

Port of Port Angeles to state: Allow highest volume of timber harvest

Port of Port Angeles commissioners will urge the state Board of Natural Resources to pick a sustainable harvest calculation that allows Clallam… Continue reading

Peninsula first responders train for emergencies

Peninsula first responders train for emergencies

Their rescue skills aren’t needed every day, but when they are, it can be a life-or-death situation. That’s why first responders from… Continue reading

Peninsula first responders train for emergencies

Opioid summit set Monday to review data, share potential solutions

At a three-county opioid summit Monday, professionals from across the Olympic Peninsula will review opioid data from across the region and look for… Continue reading

Memorial service set for last full-blooded Jamestown S’Klallam tribal member

Memorial service set for last full-blooded Jamestown S’Klallam tribal member

A memorial service is planned Saturday for the last full-blooded Jamestown S’Klallam tribal member, a former tribal chairman and council member who helped… Continue reading

Memorial service set for last full-blooded Jamestown S’Klallam tribal member

Man killed in wreck identified by State Patrol

A Freeland man who died in a three-car wreck on state Highway 19 between Chimacum and Port Ludlow on Friday was identified… Continue reading

Kilmer: Future of health insurance remains up in the air

Kilmer: Future of health insurance remains up in the air

A day after President Donald J. Trump signed a single-page executive order aimed at scaling back the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Rep.… Continue reading

Kilmer: Future of health insurance remains up in the air
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News A Washington Department of Transportation crew looks at a giant boulder that landed on U.S. Highway 101 near milepost 228 east of Barnes Point at Lake Crescent on Thursday.

Boulder blocks highway at Lake Crescent

A boulder about 12 feet across fell onto U.S. Highway 101 early Thursday morning, blocking traffic until the afternoon and highlighting… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News A Washington Department of Transportation crew looks at a giant boulder that landed on U.S. Highway 101 near milepost 228 east of Barnes Point at Lake Crescent on Thursday.
Democrats debate future after Obamacare at Port Angeles health care forum

Democrats debate future after Obamacare at Port Angeles health care forum

Democrats decried Republican efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act during a standing-room-only health care forum at the Port Angeles branch of… Continue reading

Democrats debate future after Obamacare at Port Angeles health care forum

Peninsula man attends inauguration full of hope

A North Olympic Peninsula resident now in Washington, D.C., for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration is looking forward to change. Joseph Lujan of… Continue reading

Data: All ages, areas affected by opioid addiction in Clallam County

Data: All ages, areas affected by opioid addiction in Clallam County

Newly released data shows Clallam County’s heroin and opioid epidemic affects people of all ages across the entire county. That was the… Continue reading

Data: All ages, areas affected by opioid addiction in Clallam County
Port of Port Angeles wins top award for security

Port of Port Angeles wins top award for security

The Port of Port Angeles has earned a top honor from the U.S. Coast Guard for having the “best of the best”… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles wins top award for security