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Pill disaster: Peninsula counties among tops in state per capita opiate deaths
A state Department of Health study found Clallam County to have the highest per capita rate of opiate-related…
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Trial postponed in auto fatality
PORT ANGELES — The trial of a Port Angeles man accused of driving drunk when he caused a…
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Evaluation sought for accused murderer in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES — Two people charged in the strangling death of a 27-year-old woman in Port Angeles in…
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Outlook good on restoring salmon runs in Elwha River
PORT ANGELES — After the dams are gone and sediment levels return to equilibrium, between 300,000 and 400,000…
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Forks hospital approval makes whole North Olympic Peninsula linked with Seattle’s Swedish health network
FORKS — Forks Community Hospital became the third and final North Olympic Peninsula hospital to join the Swedish…
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Peninsula joblessness up by more than a full percentage point
After months of slow but steady job growth, unemployment rose by more than 1 percentage point on the…
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Two men arrested in Port Angeles robbery
PORT ANGELES — City police Tuesday arrested two men who allegedly tied up a motel guest with duct…
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Heavy surf breaches south jetty at LaPush
LAPUSH — Heavy surf combined with a high tide breached the south jetty at LaPush on Monday, Quileute…
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Most stay home as storm sweeps across Peninsula
The worst of the week’s wintry weather passed over the North Olympic Peninsula on Wednesday as residents hunkered…
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Clallam County snow removal permitted in severe weather; commissioners clarify policy
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners said Tuesday that the head of the road department can send out…
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Clallam County adopts 16-day furlough policy to prevent layoffs
PORT ANGELES —Clallam County has established a policy to implement the 16 furlough days that were approved late…
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Students’ dreams for Port Angeles placed on Martin Luther King ‘dream quilt’
PORT ANGELES — Roosevelt Elementary School students envision a world devoid of smoking, littering, bullying and war, a…
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Washington State University names Clallam County Extension director
PORT ANGELES — Washington State University has hired a director for the Clallam County Extension Office. Clea Rome’s…
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Union pickets vs. Olympic Medical Center
PORT ANGELES — More than 100 health care workers and their supporters marched along Lincoln Street in Port…
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Lowlands might see first snow this weekend; how much unclear
PORT ANGELES — The first snow of the year could fall on North Olympic Peninsula lowlands this weekend,…
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Clallam County firefighters douse one-room blaze near Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES — A quick-thinking teenager helped firefighters contain a Wednesday morning house fire to one room southwest…
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Clallam County takes ownership of part of Forest Service road
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County has taken ownership of a one-mile section of U.S. Forest Service Road 2918…
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Bulk of tsunami debris from Japan expected in 2013; multiple fields of wreckage reported in Pacific Ocean
PORT ANGELES — Debris from the tsunami that ravaged northern Japan last March will arrive on North Olympic…
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Port Angeles man charged with meth delivery near school bus stop
PORT ANGELES — A 44-year-old Port Angeles man has been charged with delivery of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet…
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First building of composite manufacturing complex to be feted in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES — A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the first building of the Port of Port Angeles composite manufacturing…