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Port Angeles panel takes new stab at hike in waste-collection fees

PORT ANGELES — A plan to establish a separate, extra recycling fee for city residents created “a firestorm”…

Patrick B. Drum appears at his arraignment in Clallam County Superior Court

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‘I don’t need this court,’ accused killer tells judge

PORT ANGELES — Accused double-murderer Patrick B. Drum was prevented from pleading guilty at his arraignment Wednesday to…

Steven Boyd enters Clallam County Superior Court on Wednesday. He will be sentenced in July in connection with the death of a First Nations man from British Columbia. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Angeles man pleads guilty to vehicular homicide in death of B.C. man

PORT ANGELES — A man charged with vehicular homicide in the death of a First Nations man from…

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Port Angeles man admits guilt in fatal drunken driving crash

PORT ANGELES — A man charged with vehicular homicide in the death of a First Nations man from…

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Accused double-killer says ‘I’m guilty’ in open court — but it’s not his plea

PORT ANGELES — Accused double-murderer Patrick B. Drum was prevented from pleading guilty at his arraignment today to…

Work continues on the cogeneration plant at Nippon Paper Industries in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Foes of Port Angeles biomass plant digest judge’s rejection of their appeal

PORT ANGELES — Seven environmental groups who oppose a $71 million biomass expansion project under construction at Nippon…

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Biomass appeal proceeding in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — Five environmental groups are proceeding with their appeal against Port Townsend Paper Corp.’s ongoing biomass…

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Westport Shipyard adding parking spaces

PORT ANGELES — Westport Shipyard is getting a new parking lot, and the Port of Port Angeles will…

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PenPly equipment auctioned; 1941 mill soon will be history

PORT ANGELES — The beginning of the end is closing in on the defunct Peninsula Plywood manufacturing plant.…

Carol Bernthal

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Port Angeles vision of a marine research ‘campus’ takes first sail

PORT ANGELES — The City Council wants to energize the downtown waterfront. The Feiro Marine Life Center at…

Traffic flows through the intersection at Race Street and Lauridsen Boulevard in Port Angeles on Wednesday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Angeles residents air truck route concerns

PORT ANGELES — City officials attempted to dampen concerns that Race Street and Lauridsen Boulevard would be turned…

Patrick Drum arrives in Clalla

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Clallam prosecutor may seek death penalty in double-homicide case

PORT ANGELES — The death penalty may be sought against accused double-murderer Patrick B. Drum of Sequim, Clallam…

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Stepmom says accused double-murderer called her

SEQUIM — When accused double-murderer Patrick B. Drum of Sequim spoke to his stepmother Friday and Saturday, he…

Patrick B. Drum enters the courtroom for his first appearance in Port Angeles on Monday. He is being held in jail without bail. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

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Accused double-killer might have had vendetta for sex offenders, prosecutor suggests [**GALLERY**]

SEQUIM — Convicted felon Patrick B. Drum, accused of murder in the weekend shooting deaths of two convicted…

Joseph Kenney of Port Angeles pushes his daughter

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Century-old Zigzag trail structure down Port Angeles bluff visible again [**Gallery**]

PORT ANGELES — A wooden trail more than a century old that links downtown to the city’s upper…

The local panel at the state Commission on Hispanic Affairs meeting in Forks includes

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State commission hears comments about Border Patrol in Forks — Border Patrol not invited

FORKS — North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement officials and Mayor Bryon Monohon sought to assuage the fears of…

Edna Petersen

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Visit fuels interest in Port Angeles-Victoria tourism

PORT ANGELES — Entrepreneurs from both sides of the Strait of Juan de Fuca joined with city of…

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Hispanic Affairs-hosted panel to discuss profiling

FORKS — The state Commission on Hispanic Affairs will visit this West End city tonight for a panel…

The 65-year-old commercial dock and buildings at Neah Bay.  -- Photo by Jason Roberts/Cape Flattery Fishermen’s Cooperative

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Makah win $1 million federal grant to replace aging commercial dock

NEAH BAY — The Makah tribe will receive a $1 million federal Economic Development Administration grant to help…

The new Border Patrol station in Port Angeles includes a spiked fence

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Border Patrol may move into $9.8 million HQ Thursday

PORT ANGELES — A new Border Patrol station east of downtown that can house up to 50 agents…