Rob Ollikainen

Unemployment rises on Peninsula

Stagnant job gains combined with a growing labor force kept February unemployment in double digits on the North Olympic Peninsula. Clallam County’s jobless rate went… Continue reading

Clallam employee, 69, dies while at work

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners called for a moment of silence Tuesday for Health and Human Services Administrative Specialist Patricia Richards, who died Monday.… Continue reading

Snow is seen across the Olympic Mountains Sunday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Spring storms pad Olympic snowpack

PORT ANGELES — After a series of late-winter storms, snowpack in the Olympic Mountains was 135 percent of normal heading into spring, a water supply… Continue reading

Snow is seen across the Olympic Mountains Sunday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News
Christina Betts

Rocks of ages, for all ages, at Vern Burton gem show

PORT ANGELES — Kaylin Apple's eyes lit up with joy when she found a bag of shiny rose quartz and mahogany obsidian at the Vern… Continue reading

Christina Betts

Olympic Medical Center administration, board backed in public meeting

PORT ANGELES — Nearly a dozen hospital workers and Port Angeles business leaders this week defended Olympic Medical Center against past claims it is treating… Continue reading

Olympic Medical Center chief outlines fiscal challenges

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center’s existence as a locally controlled hospital district is threatened by the financial challenges in health care, including cuts to… Continue reading

Clallam County extends contract for inmate medical services

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has renewed a one-year agreement with Correctional Healthcare Management for medical services in the Clallam County jail. Jail Superintendent Ron… Continue reading

Clallam set to launch online permit center

PORT ANGELES — Want to check the status of your Clallam County building permit? Come April 1, you’ll be able to do so online. Sheila… Continue reading

David Jangula holds a boy identified only as Justice who fell down a bluff in west Port Angeles.  -- Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Good Samaritan first to reach boy who tumbled about 50 feet off bluff [**Video**]

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles boy who survived a harrowing fall down a steep ravine earlier this week told the first person to reach… Continue reading

David Jangula holds a boy identified only as Justice who fell down a bluff in west Port Angeles.  -- Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Olympic Medical Center inks sleep medicine deal with Swedish Medical

PORT ANGELES — Sleep medicine is coming back to Clallam County. Olympic Medical Center reached an agreement with Swedish Medical Center earlier this month that… Continue reading

Rescue personnel stabilize the 9-year-old boy who fell over a bluff above the Nippon Paper Industries mill in west Port Angeles on Monday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Boy, 9, taken to hospital after falling over bluff

PORT ANGELES — A 9-year-old boy survived a 60- to 70-foot fall off a cliff near Fourth and N streets in northwest Port Angeles on… Continue reading

Rescue personnel stabilize the 9-year-old boy who fell over a bluff above the Nippon Paper Industries mill in west Port Angeles on Monday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Clallam County to mull stormwater grant extension

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County will execute a no-cost extension of a federal grant for storm­water management, commissioners indicated Monday. The $719,745 Environmental Protection Agency… Continue reading

Rescue personnel stabilize the 9-year-old boy who fell over a bluff above the Nippon Paper Industries mill in west Port Angeles tonight. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

Boy, 9, taken to hospital after falling over bluff

PORT ANGELES — A 9-year-old boy survived a 60- to 70-foot fall off a cliff near Fourth and N streets in northwest Port Angeles late… Continue reading

Rescue personnel stabilize the 9-year-old boy who fell over a bluff above the Nippon Paper Industries mill in west Port Angeles tonight. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News
Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Gary Gorss

Clallam County Courthouse security examined

PORT ANGELES — Gary Gorss flung open his top desk drawer to reveal scores of knives and other sharp objects he has confiscated from Clallam… Continue reading

Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Gary Gorss

Conviction reinstated on 2009 murder-for-hire

PORT ANGELES — The state Supreme Court has reinstated the 2009 conviction of Aaron A. Hahn, an Oregon man who was found guilty of trying… Continue reading

Man receives 10 years for assault with vehicle

PORT ANGELES — Michael J. Moyle, a Port Angeles man who was found guilty of vehicular assault and other charges Jan. 26 after ramming his… Continue reading

State: Peninsula unemployment up slightly in January

PORT ANGELES — Post-holiday job losses in the service sector pushed up January unemployment on the North Olympic Peninsula, the state Employment Security Department reported… Continue reading

Real estate weighed at luncheon in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — While it’s probably not a good time to sell your house, a Port Angeles Realtor said this week it is “truly a… Continue reading

Junk tire removal projects pitched for Forks, Joyce

PORT ANGELES — Two years after a countywide junk tire removal campaign, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Code Enforcement Team is pitching a similar effort… Continue reading

Doug Bienz

Prostate cancer walkathon grows in its second year

PORT ANGELES — Gary Johnson called it. After spearheading a walkathon that raised $11,000 for prostate cancer research in Port Angeles last summer, the long-time… Continue reading

Doug Bienz