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Port Angeles taps Sunnyside deputy manager as interim finance director

PORT ANGELES — City Manager Kent Myers has selected Byron Olson, Sunnyside deputy city manager and chief financial…

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Attorney to make bid for Superior Court judgeship

PORT ANGELES — Attorney Curtis Johnson is the third candidate to announce his intention to run for the…

Larry Dunbar

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Port Angeles adjusting to high-tech electricity metering

PORT ANGELES — City residents could save at least $10 a month, officials say, on their utility bills…

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Peninsula homebuilding shows signs of awakening from stunning 2011 slump

Building permits for single-family residences plummeted in 2011 compared with 2010 on the North Olympic Peninsula, building officials…

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Port Angeles woman could be ordered to pay for infant’s burial

PORT ANGELES — Lauryn Last, who pleaded guilty Jan. 25 to second-degree manslaughter in the death of her…

Former Port Angeles Finance Director Yvonne Ziomkowski said

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No criminal charges, but former Port Angeles city finance director still feels ‘humiliated’

PORT ANGELES — Former city Finance Director Yvonne Ziomkowski will not be charged with any crimes for cashing…

Yvonne Ziomkowski

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Ex-Port Angeles city finance director won’t face criminal charges

PORT ANGELES — The Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has decided not to file criminal charges against Yvonne…

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Lost shoe given as example of need for Civic Field bond

PORT ANGELES — Baseball umpire Scott Ramsey is tired of sinking down in the waterlogged grass of Civic…

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Fire chief preparing for interim Port Angeles city manager post

PORT ANGELES — Fire Chief Dan McKeen has begun preparing himself for his new job as interim city…

Dan McKeen

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Port Angeles fire chief named as city’s interim city manager

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Fire Chief Dan McKeen will serve as city’s interim city manager. He was…

Port Angeles Fire Department Lt. Mike Sanders

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Driver escapes with few injuries after speeding, crashing in alley, police say

PORT ANGELES — A driver crashed his car in west Port Angeles late Tuesday morning after reaching what…

Dan McKeen

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Port Angeles fire chief named as city’s interim city manager

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles Fire Chief Dan McKeen will serve as city’s interim city manager. He was…

The MV Coho ferry pulls into Port Angeles on Monday. Black Ball Ferry Line will begin a multimillion-dollar renovation this fall of the terminal where the ferry docks. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

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Overhauled dock will keep Port Angeles-Victoria ferry sailing

PORT ANGELES — The Black Ball Ferry Line, which owns the MV Coho ferry to Victoria, will begin…

City Manager Kent Myers said he would not present to the council a proposal that a waterfront improvement bond question be included on the August ballot. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Angeles mulls bond for Civic Field

PORT ANGELES — The City Council will consider putting a $4 million bond question on the Aug. 19…

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Candidate for Washington state auditor urges performance audits

PORT ANGELES — Democrat Mark Miloscia, a candidate for state auditor, wants to engage government employees in making…

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Appeal ‘on hold’ in embezzlement case in missing Clallam treasury funds

PORT ANGELES — Catherine Betts’ challenge of her multicount conviction involving the embezzlement of at least $617,467 in…

Rendering by consultant HBB Landscape Architecture shows Lincoln Park in Port Angeles with ribbons of bicycle and walking trails. To see more maps and renderings

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How Lincoln Park would look with far fewer tall trees: Draft plan includes trails, orchard

To see more maps and renderings, visit: http://tinyurl.com/pdnlincoln. PORT ANGELES — A transformed Lincoln Park could include ribbons…

Bob Ferguson attended a meet-and-greet at the Port Angeles Library recently.

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Attorney general candidate addresses Peninsula issues

PORT ANGELES — A fundraiser wasn’t the only reason Bob Ferguson, Democratic state attorney general candidate, found it…

Construction continues on Wednesday on a biomass cogeneration plant at the Nippon Paper Industries USA mill in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Port Angeles council takes no action on biomass

PORT ANGELES — After hearing an hour of public comment from a standing-room-only crowd, the City Council decided…

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Port files suit against Peninsula Plywood

PORT ANGELES — The Port of Port Angeles filed suit this week in Clallam County Superior Court against…