Site Logo

Top News

Numbers are down for respiratory infections

COVID-19 outbreak in long-term care facility

A proposed map from a developer shows how a hotel project might expand into Hal Ramaley Park.

News

Park ordinance appeal to be heard in Oak Harbor

Whidbey Environmental Action Network is inviting the public to attend the hearing at 9:30 a.m. on April 21.

Children ages 3 to 5 dash to gather plastic eggs during the 48th annual KONP Easter egg hunt on Saturday at the Clallam County Fairgrounds. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Top News

On the hunt

Children ages 3 to 5 dash to gather plastic eggs during the 48th annual KONP Easter egg hunt…

Top News

Tribe to speak on land transfer

Work session generates questions for officials

Brita Altig, née Guthrie, greets her father Jim Guthrie as he goes onstage at the Port Townsend High School auditorium on Saturday to receive the Alumni Inductee Award and to be inducted into the PTHS Alumni Hall of Fame. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Top News

Hall of Fame

Brita Altig, née Guthrie, greets her father Jim Guthrie as he goes onstage at the Port Townsend High…

State Rep. Steve Tharinger, D-Port Townsend, said he made the decision not to run again this year prior to a diagnosis of Squamous cell carcinoma on his tongue last fall. “It was time for someone else,” he said. “Sixteen years is a good run.” (Washington House Democrats)

Top News

State Rep. to retire at end of his term

Tharinger reflects on service after 16 years

Shoko Suskind, a volunteer for the Sequim-Shiso City Friendship Garden, pulls weeds from the shoreline. She is one of 10 volunteers who work from 9 a.m. to noon each Tuesday from late March to October to provide upkeep of the garden. (Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Top News

Friendship Garden symbolizes connection between sister cities

Sequim students and chaperones scheduled to visit Japan in 2027

Crime & Justice

Man sentenced to 10 years for sex assault of teens

PORT ANGELES — A 26-year-old Port Angeles man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually…

Large easter eggs hang from a tree in the yard of a home on West 12th Street in Port Angeles. Egg hunts are scheduled to take place today and Sunday across the Peninsula, and a community easter service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sunday in the auditorium at Port Angeles High School, 304 E. Park Ave. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Top News

Easter weekend

Large easter eggs hang from a tree in the yard of a home on West 12th Street in…

Top News

Land transfer to tribe challenged

Clallam board to talk concerns on Monday

Business

‘Project Peninsula,’ an Amazon facility, is under construction in Port Angeles

Warehouse expected to be last-mile station for local delivery service

Arts & Entertainment

Publisher compiles intellectual portrait of novelist

‘A Larger Reality’ captures different sides of Ursula K. Le Guin

A Pacific Gray whale spy hops in the Salish Sea on Wednesday, giving passengers on a whale watching trip out of Port Townsend a sight to behold. A Washington State Ferry makes its way to Clinton, Whidbey Island, in the background. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

Top News

Whale spotting

A Pacific Gray whale spy hops in the Salish Sea on Wednesday, giving passengers on a whale watching…

West Boat Haven’s aging floats and infrastructure are nearing the end of their useful life, driving the Port of Port Angeles’ plans for a long-term rebuild of the marina. A feasibility study found the layout no longer meets current demand, with wind-related docking challenges and a need to better match slip sizes to vessels. Construction, which could cost $11 million to $20 million, is unlikely to begin until 2030. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)

Top News

Port of Port Angeles working to replace West Boat Haven

Master plan project would reorient slips

Top News

Grants to fund more than $100K in repairs at the Wheeler Theater

Structure originally built in 1932 as a theater for soldiers

Shandee Scull, left, looks at a set her son, 7-year-old Wyatt Scull, holds up for her Thursday at Olympic Bricks in Port Angeles. (Emily Hanson/Peninsula Daily News)

Business

Olympic Bricks opens Port Angeles location

Store has more than 500 Lego sets in its inventory

Blacksmiths Stryker Gooch, left, and Brian Townsend of the Port Townsend-based Stryker Forge show off the “medieval fidget spinner” jewelry in their booth at the Port Angeles Craft Mania event continuing through 6 p.m. today at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth Street, Port Angeles. Gooch is a former winner of the History Channel’s “Forged in Fire” smithing competition show. (Kelley Lane/Peninsula Daily News)

Top News

Craft creators

Blacksmiths Stryker Gooch, left, and Brian Townsend of the Port Townsend-based Stryker Forge show off the “medieval fidget…

Monica Berkseth/Olympic Peninsula News Group Kidney transplant recipient Gabriele Ellis is able to once again help her partner Steffan Sherman run their farm in Sequim thanks to help from Northwest Kidney Centers, a nonprofit, community-based provider of kidney dialysis that has an office in Port Angeles. Ellis credits the organization for the kidney transplant she received last October and said the staff were “very caring, encouraging and helpful.”

Top News

Farmer back in saddle after life-changing transplant

For Gabriele Ellis, March and April hold special meaning

The San Vicente rests in Port Angeles Harbor on Monday as it travels with more than 9,000 containers from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Chinese ports. The ship has a length of 984 feet. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Top News

Container ship in harbor

The San Vicente rests in Port Angeles Harbor on Monday as it travels with more than 9,000 containers…

Top News

Citing cuts to Medicaid, Port Angeles Planned Parenthood to close

Patients have access to telehealth services, Bremerton location