Paul Gottlieb

Pickets remain outside the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles late this afternoon. They had not been told at that time of an apparent agreement to return to work Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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 Norlund sent Peninsula Daily News the following… Continue reading

Pickets remain outside the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles late this afternoon. They had not been told at that time of an apparent agreement to return to work Monday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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 from $71 million to $85 million, a… Continue reading

Nippon Paper Industries USA machine tenders Ernie Whitney

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 the Association of Western Pulp & Paper… Continue reading

Nippon Paper Industries USA machine tenders Ernie Whitney
Nippon Paper Industries USA paper machine tenders Ernie Whitney

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 this morning in an area being picketed… Continue reading

Nippon Paper Industries USA paper machine tenders Ernie Whitney
Nippon Paper Industries USA workers gather outside the Port Angeles paper mill today after walking off the job because of a labor dispute. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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 talks, a top union official said. Greg… Continue reading

Nippon Paper Industries USA workers gather outside the Port Angeles paper mill today after walking off the job because of a labor dispute. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Black Ball Ferry marketing director Ryan Malane

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 be completed by April 30 as part… Continue reading

Black Ball Ferry marketing director Ryan Malane
The plastic wrappings may be taken off the Peninsula Plywood stack in Port Angeles starting today in advance of its demolition set for next month. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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 this week — perhaps today — as… Continue reading

The plastic wrappings may be taken off the Peninsula Plywood stack in Port Angeles starting today in advance of its demolition set for next month. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Nippon Paper Industries USA millworkers work with a jumbo roll of paper in this 2010 photo.  -- Peninsula Daily News archives

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 members of the Association of Western Pulp… Continue reading

Nippon Paper Industries USA millworkers work with a jumbo roll of paper in this 2010 photo.  -- Peninsula Daily News archives

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 of Western Pulp and Paper Workers Local… Continue reading

Jim Klarr

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 the Eighth Street bridges, will receive the… Continue reading

Jim Klarr
Recreation map shows where most of the North Olympic Peninsula's population plays — and also resides. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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 the most recent census, through July 2012,… Continue reading

Recreation map shows where most of the North Olympic Peninsula's population plays — and also resides. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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 for the city's precarious landfill. City Utility… Continue reading

Two treated, released after West End collision

BEAVER — Two Port Angeles men were treated at Forks Community Hospital and discharged while another man will be fined after a fully loaded log… Continue reading

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 trees, including a 350-year-old Douglas fir, from… Continue reading

An investigator stands on the stump of a tree felled in Olympic National Forest by timber thief Reid Johnston. U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

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 trees, including a 350-year-old Douglas fir, from… Continue reading

An investigator stands on the stump of a tree felled in Olympic National Forest by timber thief Reid Johnston. U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

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 a Clallam County Public Utility District line… Continue reading

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 Timm Kelly, who filed a wrongful termination… Continue reading

The plastic-sheathed smokestack at the now-razed Peninsula Plywood mill in Port Angeles will be torn down at 3:30 p.m. on April 8. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

‘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 years will come crashing down at 3:30… Continue reading

The plastic-sheathed smokestack at the now-razed Peninsula Plywood mill in Port Angeles will be torn down at 3:30 p.m. on April 8. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
PDN SPECIAL REPORT: Who's the highest paid public administrator on the North Olympic Peninsula?

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 year. Second on the Peninsula is Clallam… Continue reading

PDN SPECIAL REPORT: Who's the highest paid public administrator on the North Olympic Peninsula?
Port Angeles' is one of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection stations across the nation that will impose budget-cutting measures due to the recent sequester in Washington

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 cuts in overtime that began March 2… Continue reading

Port Angeles' is one of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection stations across the nation that will impose budget-cutting measures due to the recent sequester in Washington