CHIMACUM - State Parks officials will reopen a portion of Anderson Lake State Park while continuing to prohibit contact with the lake itself. Parts of… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - The Jefferson County Public Hospital District 2 commissioners set a deadline of May 31 next year to prohibit smoking on all of… Continue reading
PORT HADLOCK - The county health department has confirmed that a farm apprentice at Sunfield Farm had hepatitis A. The 24-year-old, who contracted the virus… Continue reading
QUILCENE - After more than 10 years in print, Walker Mtn News has fired up the presses for the last time. Well, probably. Shona Davis,… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - A flag was raised, music was played, and speeches were made on Thursday as about 100 people celebrated the rehabilitation of the… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - A proposal to make the entire Jefferson Healthcare hospital campus smoke free will go before the hospital commissioners for consideration later this… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - The Jefferson County commissioners have created a committee which will review proposals to establish no-shooting zones in the county. The first two… Continue reading
Jefferson County's top public health officer is urging anyone who plans to eat shellfish captured from Hood Canal to thoroughly cook it. That's because vibrio… Continue reading
CHIMACUM - Anderson Lake State Park was closed Friday night after tests showed toxin levels to be 250 times higher than last year. Water samples… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - William Blaurock's face, beaming under its red mortarboard, showed signs of more experience than those of his fellow Port Townsend High School… Continue reading
BRINNON - A 56-year-old Hoodsport man was identified Tuesday as the driver who perished when the sport utility vehicle he was driving went out of… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - A proclamation marking June as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month generated some opposition at Jefferson County Courthouse, but faced no acrimony… Continue reading
DISCOVERY BAY - Jefferson County Public Utility District officials are breathing easier after Tuesday's state Public Works Board approval of a $100,000 no-interest loan to… Continue reading
UPDATED, 1 p.m.: BRINNON -- The Washington State Patrol today named the driver who perished in a head-on crash with a gasoline tanker truck as… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - The Port Townsend-Keystone ferry route stayed limited to one boat Monday, continuing the cancellation of dozens of runs since the second ferry… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - A slow migration of 6,899 yellow, sunglasses-wearing rubber duckies floated to shore during Sunday's second annual Save Our Sports Duck Derby, but… Continue reading
DISCOVERY BAY - A Jefferson County Public Utility District official is asking for emergency state funds to cope with the expenses related to the discovery… Continue reading
DISCOVERY BAY - The discovery of buried bones and bone fragments - which were determined Wednesday to be an archaeological find - has halted construction… Continue reading
DISCOVERY BAY - Archaeologists hired by the Jefferson County Public Utility District got a first look Thursday at the Beckett Point site where human bones… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND - A Jefferson County hearing examiner has approved the construction of a 150-foot T-Mobile monopole cell phone tower in Port Hadlock. The decision… Continue reading
