Paul Gottlieb

Sequim Balloon Festival Executive Dirtor Randall Tomaras said of this year's inaugural festival: "It was a learning curve.” Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Balloon fest to return, with some changes

SEQUIM — Despite Balloon Festival attendance that fell below expectations over the Labor Day weekend, the show will go on for a second year in… Continue reading

Sequim Balloon Festival Executive Dirtor Randall Tomaras said of this year's inaugural festival: "It was a learning curve.” Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

State OKs Port Angeles’ new cash-out policies

PORT ANGELES — The state Auditor’s Office has given the city a clean bill of health on vacation and sick-leave cash-out policies in its audit… Continue reading

Port Angeles Boat Haven tenant Bill Spring is an organizer of a meeting of fellow boat owners on pending Port of Port Angeles moorage fee increases.  -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Port of Port Angeles moorage rates too much, some boat owners say

PORT ANGELES — Dissent is percolating among some boat owners over increased moorage rates approved Aug. 13 by the Port of Port Angeles commissioners. Boat… Continue reading

Port Angeles Boat Haven tenant Bill Spring is an organizer of a meeting of fellow boat owners on pending Port of Port Angeles moorage fee increases.  -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Jail photos show Lavan A. Lukes

Inmate accidentally released turns himself in

PORT ANGELES — An inmate who was mistakenly released Tuesday from Clallam County jail showed up at the Clallam County Courthouse at 3:10 p.m. Thursday… Continue reading

Jail photos show Lavan A. Lukes

Jail inmate released in error turns self in

PORT ANGELES — An inmate who was mistakenly released Tuesday from Clallam County jail showed up at the Clallam County Courthouse at 3:10 p.m. today… Continue reading

Port Angeles to become first all-WiFi city in state

PORT ANGELES — Anyone within the city limit will have access to mobile Internet service Oct. 8, when the $3.7 million Metro-Net wireless project is… Continue reading

Collins: Let the Port Angeles Downtown Association work out its own issues

PORT ANGELES — One Port Angeles Downtown Association member was asked to leave a public board meeting. Another was removed from the board of directors,… Continue reading

Fathers of slain men comment on guilty plea

PORT ANGELES — The fathers of two men shot to death in June by Patrick Drum of Sequim expressed varying degrees of emotion last week… Continue reading

Port Angeles Fire Marshal Ken Dubuc

Ken Dubuc named Port Angeles fire chief

PORT ANGELES — Ken Dubuc has now been hired twice by Dan ­McKeen. McKeen, the Port Angeles city manager, tapped Dubuc for the permanent fire… Continue reading

Port Angeles Fire Marshal Ken Dubuc
Teagan Rubida

Sequim festival gives balloon audiences a lift [**GALLERY and VIDEO**]

SEQUIM — Their ages differ by 55 years, but Jovelle Dewey and Emily Westcott gushed with the same degree of enthusiasm Saturday after alighting from… Continue reading

Teagan Rubida
Tim Bailey of Mountlake Terrace speaks from his hospital bed at Olympic Medical Center Wednesday. He was discharged and went home Thursday. KIRO TV

UPDATED — Gunshots led searchers to injured hiker in Olympic National Park

(EDITOR'S NOTE — This story has been changed to reflect a correction: While Olympic National Park waited 24 hours to search for missing hiker Tim… Continue reading

Tim Bailey of Mountlake Terrace speaks from his hospital bed at Olympic Medical Center Wednesday. He was discharged and went home Thursday. KIRO TV

Port Angeles councilman walks out of meeting

PORT ANGELES — City Councilman Max Mania walked out of a council work session this week to applause from supporters, saying: “I’ll see you at… Continue reading

A bulldozer works on the site of the former Rayonier paper mill in Port Angeles on Tuesday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Ecology meeting tonight on amending Rayonier cleanup

PORT ANGELES — A newly routed Olympic Discovery Trail will wend its way about a mile near the northern shoreline of Rayonier Inc. property, following… Continue reading

A bulldozer works on the site of the former Rayonier paper mill in Port Angeles on Tuesday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Lincoln Park makeover plan — with fewer trees — discussed next month

PORT ANGELES — A makeover for Lincoln Park that includes a tree-removal plan will be unveiled within the next four weeks and will be reviewed… Continue reading

Port Angeles Port won’t pursue money owed by ex-mill

PORT ANGELES — The owners of the shuttered Peninsula Plywood mill will not be actively pursued for $1.6 million that the company owes to the… Continue reading

CORRECTED: Congressional hopefuls Driscoll, Kilmer use Sequim forum to show differences — and some surprising similarities

Corrects Kilmer's age. SEQUIM — Republican Bill Driscoll and Democrat Derek Kilmer differed on Wild Olympics legislation, Medicare vouchers and tax increases for millionaires in… Continue reading

Port Angeles’ first roundabouts also will be designed to curb flooding

PORT ANGELES — The city’s first roundabouts will serve as planters for stormwater-filtering rain gardens that also will help control residential flooding. The multipurpose effort… Continue reading

Sarah Creachbaum

New Olympic National Park superintendent ‘excited’ over park’s wilderness acreage

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Sarah Creachbaum, who began her career in the National Park Service cleaning hiking trails of branches and rocks, has been named… Continue reading

Sarah Creachbaum

Port Angeles council to discuss complaint Tuesday

PORT ANGELES — At a public work session Tuesday, the entire seven-member City Council will again broach the formal complaint brought by council member Brooke… Continue reading

Widow of man killed by goat to go ahead with portion of lawsuit against national park

PORT ANGELES — The widow of a man killed by a mountain goat in Olympic National Park plans to proceed to trial with the portion… Continue reading