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Clinic gets $200,000 grant for child dental services

PORT ANGELES — Babies and young kids will have access to more dental services on the North Olympic…

Firefighters battle a blaze and acrid smoke at the converted fishing vessel

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Port Angeles boat fire started in engine room

PORT ANGELES — A 73-foot, steel-hulled converted fishing boat caught fire Monday afternoon in a waterfront boatyard, blanketing…

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Olympic Medical Center snags No. 1 rating for safety

PORT ANGELES — Consumer Reports ranked Olympic Medical Center No. 1 for patient safety among 34 state hospitals…

The snowcaps of the Olympic Mountains gleam in the sun on Sunday. Heavy snow on the peaks has lingered into spring. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

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Snowpack in Olympics 140 percent of normal

Heavy snow that slammed the Olympic Mountains late last year has lingered into spring, leaving a snowpack that…

Earlier this month

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Tsunami dock removed from Peninsula beach

LAPUSH — The dock is gone. A Port Townsend contractor has finished removing a 185-ton Japanese dock that…

Kayaks line Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles during the 2012 Kayak Symposium. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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Kayak symposium scratched this year

PORT ANGELES — The 2013 Port Angeles Kayak Symposium has been called off. Olympic Raft and Kayak, which…

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Clallam County to fund mental health crisis center

EDITOR’S NOTE — This story has been modified to clarify that Peninsula Behavioral Health has not received financial…

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Use or lose federal road funds, Clallam commissioners warned

PORT ANGELES — Cities and counties must use their federal road money or lose it, Clallam County road…

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Clallam, PUD approve pact for Carlsborg sewer project

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has taken another step in its decades-long quest to built a sewer system…

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Olympic Medical Center to hire extra staff for electronic records launch

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center will hire up to three dozen travel nurses to support the looming…

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Clallam Master Gardeners most fruitful in state

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Master Gardeners logged more than 12,800 volunteer hours in 2012, making the Port…

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EYE ON OLYMPIA: Bills move to opposite chambers

Last week was a pivotal one in Olympia as state lawmakers raced against a Wednesday deadline for bills…

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Port Angeles starts planning its financial future

PORT ANGELES — City officials are drafting a financial plan to provide a foundation for future budget decisions.…

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BB gun prank triggers police response in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man who donned a ski mask and pulled a BB gun on…

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Possible plea deal in deputy-assault case

PORT ANGELES — A plea agreement is in the works for a Sequim man charged with assaulting a…

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Sheriff: Man jailed after attempting to flee Port Angeles court

PORT ANGELES — A 21-year-old Sequim man was arrested by Clallam County corrections deputies after he tried to…

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Sheriff: Man jailed after attempting to flee Port Angeles court

PORT ANGELES — A 21-year-old Sequim man was arrested by Clallam County corrections deputies after he tried to…

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BB gun prank triggers police response in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man who donned a ski mask and pulled a BB gun on…

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

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UPDATED — Hearing on tree poaching restitution delayed to next week

TACOMA — A restitution hearing for a Brinnon man charged with poaching more than 100 trees from Olympic…

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Jobless rate climbs back up on Peninsula

PORT ANGELES — Unemployment climbed back into the double digits on the North Olympic Peninsula in January as…