James Casey

Racing rubber ducks yield big prizes

PORT ANGELES -- Step on up for some yellow journalism. When it's time to cover the Duck Derby, there's no other choice of colors. Gary… Continue reading

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 at the hilt. Lower Elwha Klallam cultural… Continue reading

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 graving yard, state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald… Continue reading

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 state. Clallam County is where her heart… Continue reading

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 graving yard fiasco will debut Tuesday. While… Continue reading

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 who are "people of the water," fish… Continue reading

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 gambling casino that tribal officials say may… Continue reading

Clallam stays local with new administrator

PORT ANGELES -- Jim Jones, director of business and operations for Port Angeles schools, will become Clallam County government's top executive June 13. Clallam County… Continue reading

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 May Day march in Forks over U.S.… Continue reading

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 50 of those. Dan and Irene Cyr's… Continue reading

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 summer. Most improvements to Salt Creek Recreation… Continue reading

Hospital commissioners hail clinic transition

PORT ANGELES -- Olympic Medical Center administrators Wednesday celebrated keeping their promise to provide primary care at the former Virginia Mason clinics. "We had a… Continue reading

$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 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. County commissioners this… Continue reading

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 crisis has come closer and closer for… Continue reading

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 expected to open in 2007. Wake Up… Continue reading

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 as eager and sincere. The three men… Continue reading

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 Gov. Chris Gregoire's office reached city of… Continue reading

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 and rotting tires that a visitor stands… Continue reading

Finalist for Clallam administrator job up for similar post in Georgia

PORT ANGELES -- A Kansas candidate for Clallam County's top staff position could come to town with another job offer already in his pocket. Edward… Continue reading

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 of the fire district commissioners. An executive… Continue reading