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BREAKING NEWS: Strike against Nippon Paper appears over
PORT ANGELES — A strike by 130 Nippon Paper Industries USA employees may be over. Mill Manager Harold…
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Cost of Nippon Paper Industries’ biomass plant project rises about 20%
PORT ANGELES — The cost of the biomass cogeneration plant upgrade by Nippon Paper Industries USA has risen…
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Nippon Paper seeks new workers while union continues strike
PORT ANGELES — Nippon Paper Industries USA is seeking new workers while its 130 hourly employees affiliated with…
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UPDATE: Fewer pickets outside shuttered Nippon paper mill
PORT ANGELES — About a half-dozen Nippon Paper Industries USA employees stayed through Wednesday night and into early…
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BREAKING: About 130 Nippon Paper union workers walk off job
PORT ANGELES — More than 100 Nippon union workers walked off the job this morning over stalled contract…
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Port Angeles ferry landing project to be done by April 30
PORT ANGELES — Improvements to the MV Coho ferry terminal area, including replacement of the western dock, will…
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PenPly stack to be stripped before crews tumble it down
PORT ANGELES — Workers are expected to begin unwrapping plastic sheathing from around the former Peninsula Plywood smokestack…
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War of words between Nippon Paper, union in wake of new unratified contract
PORT ANGELES — Without union approval, Nippon Paper Industries USA implemented a labor contract Monday with about 130…
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Nippon, union at odds; Port Angeles paper mill continues operation
PORT ANGELES — Nippon Paper Industries USA implemented a labor contract with about 130 members of the Association…
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Who we are: More deaths than births on Peninsula, but population stays about the same
Far more people died than were born in Clallam and Jefferson counties from April 2010, the date of…
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Port Angeles city worker to be honored for saving teen
PORT ANGELES — Jim Klarr, a city employee who saved a 15-year-old girl from jumping from one of…
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Cost of fixing leaky Port Angeles landfill might increase by $1.2 million
PORT ANGELES — An advisory committee has recommended an additional $1.2 million be applied to designing a solution…
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Two treated, released after West End collision
BEAVER — Two Port Angeles men were treated at Forks Community Hospital and discharged while another man will…
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Brinnon logger owes $84,000 in restitution for poaching trees
TACOMA — A Brinnon logger must pay $84,000 in restitution to the U.S. Forest Service for poaching 102…
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UPDATED — Logger to pay $84,000 in timber theft
TACOMA — A Brinnon logger must pay $84,000 in restitution to the U.S. Forest Service for poaching 102…
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Arbitrator orders fired Clallam County Public Utility District foreman back to work
PORT ANGELES — A labor arbitrator’s ruling that Timm Kelly must be offered his old job back as…
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Arbitrator orders fired Clallam Public Utility District foreman back to work
An arbitrator has ruled in favor of union official and former Clallam County Public Utility District line foreman…
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‘Kaboom’: Date, time set for explosion to fell PenPly smokestack
PORT ANGELES — A smokestack that has helped to symbolize the North Olympic Peninsula’s timber heritage for 70…
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PDN SPECIAL REPORT: Who’s the highest paid public administrator on the North Olympic Peninsula?
Jefferson Healthcare CEO Mike Glenn is the highest-paid public employee on the North Olympic Peninsula at $225,000 a…
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Border Patrol braces for budget cuts
PORT ANGELES — Several budget-cutting measures were announced last week by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, including…