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Permits granted for dam removal in Clallam

PORT ANGELES – A Clallam County hearing examiner Wednesday approved permits for 15 of 16 projects sought by…

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Clallam may lend deputies to depleted Forks force

FORKS – Two Clallam County sheriff’s deputies are likely to be called in to fortify the Police Department…

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Clallam considers junk-car ordinance — but how tough?

PORT ANGELES – Two, four, six, eight: How many junk cars must you abate? An ordinance Clallam County…

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Big pay raises for elected Clallam County officials urged

PORT ANGELES – Jim Jones thinks Clallam County is getting good government on the cheap. Jones, county administrator…

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Patients back docs in contract impasse with Olympic Medical Center

PORT ANGELES – Olympic Medical Center commissioners likely will face a hostile audience of primary care clinic patients…

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Clallam will meet rising sewer cost to new Wal-Mart

PORT ANGELES – Clallam County commissioners are expected today to assume the increased cost of extending a Port…

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Freeholders to interview Clallam commissioners

PORT ANGELES – The 15 people chosen to review Clallam County’s charter will interview county commissioners and their…

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Census finds fewer homeless people in Clallam; Jefferson’s census numbers awaited

OLYMPIA – Clallam County shelter providers will lobby legislators today with Point in Time census numbers that show…

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Peninsula exceeds state average in selling smokes to youth

Youngsters can buy cigarettes illegally twice as easily in Clallam and Jefferson counties as they can – on…

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Coast Guard investigator will fill undersheriff’s post

A former state fish and wildlife agent who’s now a Coast Guard criminal investigator will be Clallam County’s…

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Friends of Animals tames ex-alley cat

Alexandra, “a beautiful little Russian blue kitty,” is one of the animals that Catherine Burke rescued and took…

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She’s keeper of the 9 lives — for 14 years

PORT ANGELES – The sun hasn’t risen over the horizon and the temperature barely has climbed above freezing…

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Invisible people — the homeless –prove hard to see in Clallam County

Come join the search for invisible people. They’re unseen because they’re homeless. Some of us simply don’t notice…

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Farmers, Realtors join to conserve land

PORT ANGELES – Joshua Alpert wants to wish “sweet dreams” to some very strange bedfellows – Friends of…

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Olympic Medical Center, no longer just a hospital, dominates health care

PORT ANGELES – Olympic Medical Center commissioners gathered Wednesday night at the same time, in the same place…

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Hospital buys clinic, but no contract with doctors

PORT ANGELES – Olympic Medical Center commissioners Wednesday bought the former Virginia Mason clinic on Eighth Street, but…

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Lewis named permanent CEO of Olympic Medical Center

Eric Lewis dropped “interim” from his title of administrator of Olympic Medical Center on Wednesday. In a surprise…

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State wants to rebuild trestle it once scrapped

SEQUIM – The Olympic Discovery Trail will follow a long and winding road through Sequim Bay State Park…

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Nature takes toll on eagles’ perches

PORT ANGELES – Two trees fell last week in Port Angeles that, though no one may have heard…

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Clallam schedules yearly count of homeless people

You can’t count homeless people by knocking on their doors. That’s why more than 100 volunteers will fan…