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Unemployment rises on Peninsula

Stagnant job gains combined with a growing labor force kept February unemployment in double digits on the North…

Snow is seen across the Olympic Mountains Sunday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

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Spring storms pad Olympic snowpack

PORT ANGELES — After a series of late-winter storms, snowpack in the Olympic Mountains was 135 percent of…

Christina Betts

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Rocks of ages, for all ages, at Vern Burton gem show

PORT ANGELES — Kaylin Apple’s eyes lit up with joy when she found a bag of shiny rose…

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Olympic Medical Center chief outlines fiscal challenges

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center’s existence as a locally controlled hospital district is threatened by the financial…

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Olympic Medical Center administration, board backed in public meeting

PORT ANGELES — Nearly a dozen hospital workers and Port Angeles business leaders this week defended Olympic Medical…

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Clallam set to launch online permit center

PORT ANGELES — Want to check the status of your Clallam County building permit? Come April 1, you’ll…

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Clallam County extends contract for inmate medical services

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has renewed a one-year agreement with Correctional Healthcare Management for medical services in…

David Jangula holds a boy identified only as Justice who fell down a bluff in west Port Angeles.  -- Photo by Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

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Good Samaritan first to reach boy who tumbled about 50 feet off bluff [**Video**]

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles boy who survived a harrowing fall down a steep ravine earlier this…

Rescue personnel stabilize the 9-year-old boy who fell over a bluff above the Nippon Paper Industries mill in west Port Angeles on Monday. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

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Boy, 9, taken to hospital after falling over bluff

PORT ANGELES — A 9-year-old boy survived a 60- to 70-foot fall off a cliff near Fourth and…

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Clallam County to mull stormwater grant extension

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County will execute a no-cost extension of a federal grant for storm­water management, commissioners…

Rescue personnel stabilize the 9-year-old boy who fell over a bluff above the Nippon Paper Industries mill in west Port Angeles tonight. Chris Tucker/Peninsula Daily News

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Boy, 9, taken to hospital after falling over bluff

PORT ANGELES — A 9-year-old boy survived a 60- to 70-foot fall off a cliff near Fourth and…

Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Gary Gorss

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Clallam County Courthouse security examined

PORT ANGELES — Gary Gorss flung open his top desk drawer to reveal scores of knives and other…

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Conviction reinstated on 2009 murder-for-hire

PORT ANGELES — The state Supreme Court has reinstated the 2009 conviction of Aaron A. Hahn, an Oregon…

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Man receives 10 years for assault with vehicle

PORT ANGELES — Michael J. Moyle, a Port Angeles man who was found guilty of vehicular assault and…

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State: Peninsula unemployment up slightly in January

PORT ANGELES — Post-holiday job losses in the service sector pushed up January unemployment on the North Olympic…

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Real estate weighed at luncheon in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — While it’s probably not a good time to sell your house, a Port Angeles Realtor…

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Junk tire removal projects pitched for Forks, Joyce

PORT ANGELES — Two years after a countywide junk tire removal campaign, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Code…

Doug Bienz

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Prostate cancer walkathon grows in its second year

PORT ANGELES — Gary Johnson called it. After spearheading a walkathon that raised $11,000 for prostate cancer research…

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Sekiu man, 46, charged with oxycodone sale

PORT ANGELES — A 46-year-old Sekiu man was charged last week with 10 felony drug and weapons crimes…

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New coalition urges binding arbitration for Olympic Medical Center union members

PORT ANGELES — A new coalition has called on Olympic Medical Center to go to binding arbitration to…