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Non-Native teaching Quileute tongue-twisting language

LAPUSH — Every word spoken in Quileute breathes new life into the ancient Native American language. That’s the…

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Program diverts woman from prison — and meth

PORT ANGELES — Sometimes you’ve got to put in more than years to become a grownup. Kashine Meyer…

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1855 treaty trumps law in Makah whaling, defense will argue in hearing for five whalers

TACOMA — The names and faces will be different, but the issue will stay the same: Does a…

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Port Angeles volunteer clinic suffers from loss of . . . volunteers

PORT ANGELES — The uninsured may go unserved at 909 Georgiana St. The cottage is the Volunteers in…

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Jail remodeling halfway finished

PORT ANGELES — The project to expand the Clallam County jail by 30 beds — and 30 percent…

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Hearing Tuesday could lead to whaling charges being dropped

TACOMA — A pretrial hearing on motions to dismiss federal charges against five Makah whale hunters will proceed…

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Dungeness park may accommodate only Native hunters

DUNGENESS — Clallam County soon may tell the state Department of Fish and Wildlife that hunters won’t be…

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Bad news driving bad home market, say builder, banker

PORT ANGELES — Publicity about mortgage foreclosures is scaring people out of building or buying houses, a builder,…

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Sequim chamber breaks silence about firing executive director

SEQUIM — Leaders of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce said they fired their executive director for “poor…

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Obama is Peninsula Democrats’ overwhelming favorite; Paul shows strength in GOP ranks

Barack Obama overwhelmed Hillary Rodham Clinton in Democratic county caucuses Saturday across the North Olympic Peninsula, while Arizona…

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Sequim chamber faction questions executive director’s firing, threatens to seek board ouster

SEQUIM — Fifteen angry members of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce will confront the organization’s board of…

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Construction’s benefits multiply, economist tells industry group

BLYN — Drop a rock into a pond, and little waves will radiate from the splash point. Drop…

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Nurses endorse new contract with Olympic Medical Center

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center commissioners will consider ratifying on Wednesday a contract endorsed by nearly all…

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Puget Partnership charts ambitious cleanup calendar

BLYN — Imagine the good you’d harvest by harnessing all the random acts of kindness committed along the…

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60 attend NOAA crash course on oil spills

PORT ANGELES — Your grade-school teacher was wrong: Water and oil do mix. And water eventually will win.…

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Update: Cape Flattery rising by a foot, not by feet

SEATTLE — Neah Bay won’t be the North Olympic Peninsula’s answer to Mount Ararat after all, it turns…

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The fight over growth in Sequim: Mayor tries to get Planning Commission chairman to quit

SEQUIM — An attempt to convince Sequim Planning Commission Chairman Larry Freedman to resign has failed, and Sequim…

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Audit faults Clallam Transit for oversights in 2005, 2006

PORT ANGELES — Clallam Transit System has corrected three procedural findings in an audit of the bus network’s…

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Federal trial of Makah whalers moved to April

TACOMA — A federal court has postponed a preliminary proceeding for five Makah men accused of illegally killing…

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Lee Embree, first photographer to fly into 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, dies in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Lee Embree, whose photographs so vividly memorialized events of World War II that he became…