Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, left, and Democrats Patrick DePoe, center, and Kevin Van De Wege, all candidates for state Commissioner of Public Lands, met before the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday to discuss their priorities for leading the Department of Natural Resources. (Peter Segall/Peninsula Daily News)

Politics

Fires are top priority for Commissioner of Public Lands hopefuls

Candidates want to increase state harvests

News

Clallam commissioners consider sewer bid, pass two amendments

Board extends contract with WSU research center for one month

Life

Repair jewelry, bicycles at Sunday event

Volunteers to show participants how to fix common items

Nadia Erika Cole

News

Missing Port Angeles woman found safe in Mexico

Cole, 21, helped locate Aung, 2-year-old girl

Wrestling coach Rob Gale prepares to toss a floating toy for his dog, Stella, to fetch in the waters of Lake Crescent at Log Cabin Resort in Olympic National Park on Saturday. Summer weather drew hundreds of people to the lake as a way to beat the heat. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Cooling off

Wrestling coach Rob Gale prepares to toss a floating toy for his dog, Stella, to fetch in the…

News

Jefferson County to start crafting short-term rental rules

Recommendations expected this summer

News

Clallam commissioners discuss hospital levy, wildfire planning

Joint meeting to be set up with city on operations building

Arts & Entertainment

‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ gets second chance

Rock opera opens Friday, with nine performances to follow

A trio, Canto a Mi Tierra of Veracruz, Mexico, with Osiris Ramses Caballero Leon, left, Bernabe Hernandez Orozco, center, and Fernando Hernandez Orozco, play a set of traditional Mexican music originating in the six states of northeastern Mexico in McCurdy Pavilion on Saturday in one of the final concerts to close out the week of Fiddle Tunes presented by Centrum at Fort Worden. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Arts & Entertainment

Fiddle Tunes

A trio, Canto a Mi Tierra of Veracruz, Mexico, with Osiris Ramses Caballero Leon, left, Bernabe Hernandez Orozco,…

News

Heat advisory through mid-week

Temperatures likely to peak today

News

Sequim Library expansion gets financing from State Treasurer’s office

Certificates of Participation sold to help agencies obtain funding for projects, equipment

Diane Fatzinger uses the wind phone in Sequim, located just north of the Olympic Discovery Trail on West Hendrickson Road. (Elijah Sussman/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Life

Wind phone offers a place for therapeutic discussion

Sequim woman constructs unwired booth to speak to lost loved one

News

Port Angeles man dies in wreck on Highway 101

BRINNON — A Port Angeles man died when the vehicle he was driving struck a guardrail as he…

Shayna Robnett holds Phoenix, a rooster abandoned near Baker Dip near Morse Creek, at Lilly’s Safe Haven in Port Angeles. Robnett estimates the nonprofit has rescued more than 70 roosters since its inception about four years ago. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Arts & Entertainment

Lilly’s Safe Haven fills in animal rescue gaps

Director brings in abandoned roosters, ducks and sheep

News

Port Angeles Waterfront District becomes nonprofit

Organization plans to execute strategic plan

News

Port Townsend Marine Science Center adds new tank

Exhibit added at museum, which is preparing for downtown move

Pie contest judges, from left, Jeff Tocher, Laurel Hargis and Clallam County Commissioner Randy Johnson, along with event sponsor Country Aire Natural Foods representatives Kristina Fallon, Katie Meyers and Caeron Alarcon, make their choices during Thursday’s annual Independence Day apple pie contest at Port Angeles City Pier. A total of 26 pies were entered into the contest with first-place honors going to Xaven McCarty of Seattle, Elisabeth Pennell of Mukilteo in second and Selena Reach of Port Angeles taking third. The contest was dedicated the late legacy judge and former Peninsula Daily News publisher John Brewer, represented by a photo in front of an empty chair. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

News

Family, patriotism highlight Fourth of July festivities

Cornhole tournament, apple pie contest part of celebration

News

Criteria drafted for Port Townsend vacancy

KPTZ Radio is moving to Fort Worden

Sequim City Council member Vicki Lowe and Sequim School Board president Eric Pickens talk at a joint meeting at the city council’s chambers on June 25. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

News

Sequim city, school leaders discuss housing

Enrollment has decreased, but several projects are in pipeline

News

Port Angeles council debates clarifying short term rental code

PORT ANGELES — Council member Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin introduced four motions regarding implementation of the new short term rental…