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Port Townsend City Council deals with budget, bonds and fee deferments

PORT TOWNSEND — The City Council had some big business to do Monday night. There was the $28…

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Court won’t review land use ruling; gun range owner D’Amico blames county for decision

GARDINER — Joe D’Amico has lost another skirmish in his five-year battle with Jefferson County over a shooting…

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Austin beats anti-incumbent fever in Jefferson County commissioner race

PORT TOWNSEND — In a year widely predicted to be a bad one for incumbents at all levels,…

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HALLOWEEN IN JEFFERSON: The ghost tale of Alice the Goon

Stories of spooks and ghosts are rampant in Port Townsend, where it is easy to envision the face…

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Jefferson County turns over documents sought by firearms training range operator; more e-mails coming

Jefferson County has produced some but not all of the e-mail records that Joe D’Amico requested two weeks…

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Jefferson’s unsolved mysteries: Protection Island no longer focus of cold case investigation

Little Jeff Blankinship would have turned 41 years old this year. He might have attended Port Townsend schools,…

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Clallam’s unsolved mysteries: Last year’s discovery proves ‘cold cases’ can be solved, detective says

Norman Boullion’s son, a teenager when his father disappeared, got some closure last year when the bones found…

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Port Ludlow council to appeal quarry decision

PORT LUDLOW — A citizens group will appeal a visiting judge’s decision preventing them from weighing-in on an…

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Chicken-hunting bear trapped near Quilcene; new home to be deep in Olympic Mountains

QUILCENE — A young black bear with a taste for fresh chicken was captured sometime during the night…

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State auditor looking into Quilcene fire district issue

QUILCENE — Questions about special-project wages paid by Fire District 2 in Quilcene to Commissioner David Ward —…

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What does Protection Island hide? Investigators hope to search for bones in 37-year-old case

A 37-year-old Jefferson County missing-persons case has turned into a suspected triple murder case involving two jurisdictions with…