An estimate to build a new Dungeness Station 31, a volunteer station, came in more than $3 million than what Clallam County Fire District 3 officials were looking to spend. They’re now reassessing options for the facility with a $2 million budget. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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New fire station is over budget

Chief seeks finish of facilities plan

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Port Townsend pays off bonds with reserves

City spends $1.6 million

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Search to continue for plane down near Queets

OLYMPIA — The state Department of Transportation hopes to continue air searches today for a plane thought to…

Annalise Sanchez, 2, along with her mother, Yvonne Bolstron of Port Angeles, look in awe at Sasquatch, portrayed by Jess Grello, an organizer of the annual Squatchcon comic and arts convention, during Saturday’s Kiwanis KidsFest and Clallam County Community Safety Day in and around Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles. The free event brought together a variety of organizations and agencies to promote parenting and community awareness. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Sasquatch and friends

Annalise Sanchez, 2, along with her mother, Yvonne Bolstron of Port Angeles, look in awe at Sasquatch, portrayed…

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Conservation easements applications accepted

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Conservation Futures Program is accepting applications for conservation futures easements on farmland.

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Port Townsend woman taken to hospital after one-car wreck

PORT TOWNSEND — A Port Townsend woman was taken to Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend following a…

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Essay contest asks students about value of news

PORT TOWNSEND — The League of Women Voters of Jefferson County asks, “What would your community be like…

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Sequim School Board backs Habitat, expansion of shop

SEQUIM — The Sequim School Board has unanimously offered letters of support for two local efforts, one for…

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Fire Protection District 3 special meeting set for Tuesday

SEQUIM — The Clallam County Fire Protection District 3 commissioners will discuss 2024 budget priorities during a special…

A Laysan Albatross found on the Columbia River in February was released from the back of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter off the coast of Cape Flattery Wednesday after spending a month at a wildlife sanctuary in Lynnwood. (Courtesy photo / USCG Petty Officer Steve Strohmaier)

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Albatross released off Cape Flattery after surgery

Rare in coastal waters, bird needed a hand getting home

Wayne King

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Former PUD commissioner, Wayne King, remembered

King died at age of 81

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District 24 scorecard

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Sen. Kevin Van De Wege is pictured during Senate deliberations before voting on a hospital staffing bill.

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Peninsula hospitals exempt from bill

Staffing legislation that passed Senate opposed by district’s senator

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State Senate OKs bill to change police pursuit law

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Sequim, Port Angeles schools prepare for cuts

Officials keep eye on state Legislature

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Swap in Lost Mountain Land Exchange increases access to DNR-managed lands

PORT ANGELES — A swap of 7-acre parcels at the end of Lost Mountain Road southwest of Sequim…

NW Landworks personnel removed large areas of invasive plants in Fort Worden. (Friends of Fort Worden)

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Heavy machinery called in to remove invasive plants

English ivy vines, blackberry bushes ‘strangling trees’

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Port Angeles City Council discusses pay raise

Two suggestions: Double stipend or hourly wage

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Port of Port Townsend looks at busy year for projects

Parking at Point Hudson sparks discussion

Nathan West, Port Angeles city manager, gives his annual State of the City address at a meeting of the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. (Ken Park/Peninsula Daily News)

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Annual State of City given to PA chamber

Housing, downtown development, city staff expansion topics of talk