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Border Patrol reports more than $200,000 in backpack

BLAINE — U.S. Border Patrol agents seized $218,908 in American currency in the backpack of a Mexican citizen who was in the United State illegally… Continue reading

Man, 23, alleged to have burglarized home 3 times

PORT ANGELES — A 23-year-old man alleged to have burglarized the same home three times in two days was arrested Sunday. Pedro Alexander Jaramillo of… Continue reading

MoveOn to host serpentine parade through Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Jefferson County MoveOn Council will host its inaugural St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday. The parade will be from noon to 1… Continue reading

Navy hosting public meeting in Quilcene today

QUILCENE — The Navy will host an open-house information session in Quilcene today on a proposal to expand training activities, including use of sonar. The… Continue reading

Port Angeles Police Officer Allen Brusseau walks police dog Kilo alongside Officer Andrew Heuett

Police link man arrested in robbery to other Port Angeles holdups

PORT ANGELES — After an hourlong search, Port Angeles police arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of robbing Jiffy Cleaners on Tuesday. Nicholas Jacob Mallonee, who… Continue reading

Port Angeles Police Officer Allen Brusseau walks police dog Kilo alongside Officer Andrew Heuett
Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Now is the time to nominate your local hero. We are looking for people who make a difference in Jefferson County — individuals who have… Continue reading

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award
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State Sen. Hargrove to seek re-election

HOQUIAM — State Sen. Jim Hargrove, the Democrat who has held the Senate seat for the North Olympic Peninsula since 1993, announced that he will… Continue reading

Jim Hargrove

Elwha River dam removal talk set Tuesday

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The Olympic National Park Perspectives Winter Speakers Series continues this week with a program on the Elwha River dam removal project.… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Port Angeles blanks Forks in baseball; Forks softball team loses by one run to Roughriders

PORT ANGELES — Easton Napiontek, the 6-foot-8 pitcher who will play baseball for Central Washington University next year, picked up where he left off last… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Port Angeles overwhelms Forks in boys soccer action

FORKS — Port Angeles gave a clinic in its first boys soccer game of the year. Tamrat Haskins and Anthony Brandon scored two goals each… Continue reading

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Twilight tourism visits fall off in Forks, but town keeping its book-movie series hopes alive [ *** GALLERY *** ]

FORKS — Signs of Twilight are all over Forks. Driving into town on U.S. Highway 101, it's clear the vampire and werewolf teen romance series… Continue reading

Conservation district incumbents re-elected

Incumbents on both the Clallam and Jefferson Conservation Districts boards of supervisors who were up for re-election each will serve another three-year term. Because only… Continue reading

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Now is the time to nominate your local hero. We are looking for people who make a difference in Jefferson County — individuals who have… Continue reading

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Port Townsend School Board selects superintendent

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend School Board will offer the superintendent’s position to Dr. David Engle of Lawrenceville, N.J., who most recently supervised a… Continue reading

The remains of a mobile home in Diamond Point are tended to by Clallam County Fire District No. 3 firefighters. Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News

UPDATE — Child’s body found in burned Diamond Point home

DIAMOND POINT — Clallam County Sheriff’s investigators have found the body of a 2-year-old in the rubble of a home that burned this morning. Investigators… Continue reading

The remains of a mobile home in Diamond Point are tended to by Clallam County Fire District No. 3 firefighters. Jeff Chew/Peninsula Daily News

Finalists eyed for Jefferson planning post

PORT TOWNSEND — Two finalists hoping to fill the Jefferson County director of the Department of Community Development post vacated by Al Scalf will be… Continue reading

GOP Senate hopeful at two area events

PORT ANGELES — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Baumgartner will be the guest speaker at the ­Clallam County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner tonight. The… Continue reading

Clallam County Fire District No. 3 medics attend to a Sequim motorist who was suffering from an unknown medical condition in which she lost control of her vehicle Wednesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 101 at Chicken Coop Road. Patrick Young

Medical condition caused crash on Highway 101, State Patrol says

BLYN — A 56-year-old Sequim woman was listed Thursday in serious condition with an undisclosed medical condition at a Seattle hospital after a crash on… Continue reading

Clallam County Fire District No. 3 medics attend to a Sequim motorist who was suffering from an unknown medical condition in which she lost control of her vehicle Wednesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 101 at Chicken Coop Road. Patrick Young
Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Now is the time to nominate your local hero. We are looking for people who make a difference in Jefferson County — individuals who have… Continue reading

Nominate your community hero for Jefferson County Heart of Service award

Sequim sets public planning workshops this weekend

SEQUIM — The city of Sequim is introducing “Sequim 120,” a “visioning” exercise for the its comprehensive plan update, on Saturday and Sunday. Programs are… Continue reading