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Racing rubber ducks yield big prizes

PORT ANGELES — Step on up for some yellow journalism. When it’s time to cover the Duck Derby,…

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Report details chain of events behind graving yard debacle

OLYMPIA — You could have cut the irony with a stone-bladed knife, but it might have snapped off…

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State graving yard report looks back at what went wrong

OLYMPIA — With almost all the fingers pointed and all the fists pounded over the Hood Canal Bridge…

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Graving yard report due Tuesday in Olympia

OLYMPIA — Seventeen months in the making, state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald’s report on the Hood Canal Bridge…

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Clallam health/human services director happy to be on Peninsula

PORT ANGELES — Iva Burks is a native Northwesterner who says she accidentally was born in New York…

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Tribes tell of fish decline to state oceans panel

PORT ANGELES — For most folks, fish mean food. For some, they mean money. For Northwest Native Americans…

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Port Angeles tribe files paperwork for casino

PORT ANGELES — The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe has filed a letter of intent to construct an off-reservation…

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Clallam stays local with new administrator

PORT ANGELES — Jim Jones, director of business and operations for Port Angeles schools, will become Clallam County…

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Port Angeles couple turns heads with small car

This car probably gets more gawks per mile than it gets miles per gallon — and it gets…

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Salt Creek improvements just in time for season

JOYCE — Clallam County is polishing the jewel in its crown to sparkle for the official start of…

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Eight immigrants arrested on West End by U.S. agents

FORKS — Federal agents’ arrests of about eight undocumented immigrants last week had nothing to do with a…

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Hospital commissioners hail clinic transition

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center administrators Wednesday celebrated keeping their promise to provide primary care at the…

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Ex-Virginia Mason clinic starts under OMC watch

PORT ANGELES — Like the train hurtling toward the heroine tied to the tracks, the Virginia Mason clinic…

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$750,000 grant to help elderly care

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County is riding the leading edge of aging with a $750,000 grant from the…

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Opponents target Wal-Mart expansion in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Wal-Mart’s ubiquitous smiley face doesn’t get a grin from a group opposing a Supercenter that’s…

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Port Angeles loses out on any Hood Canal Bridge work

PORT ANGELES — Anchors for the Hood Canal Bridge will not be built in Port Angeles. Word from…

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County administrator candidates a study of contrasts

PORT ANGELES — Edward Williams acted casually confident. Richard Nelson was self-effacing yet incisive. Jim Jones came off…

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County hoping new ordinance will help clean up junk eyesores

PORT ANGELES — This property probably was pretty once. Now it’s so strewn with rusting cars, leaking batteries…

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Fire Board poised to give chief the ax?

JOYCE — Clallam County Fire District No. 4 Chief Dave Chastain may lose his job at Wednesday’s meeting…

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Trail would travel under new Elwha River bridge

PORT ANGELES — You’ll walk over the river by going under the bridge. Clallam County public works administrators…