Plastic sheeting covers the spot Thursday where a retaining wall at the top of Tumwater Road in Port Angeles is being rebuilt. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Soggy March delays work on Tumwater Road retaining wall in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Following a month's worth of rain delays, crews contracted with the city hope to begin work on an additional retaining wall on… Continue reading

Plastic sheeting covers the spot Thursday where a retaining wall at the top of Tumwater Road in Port Angeles is being rebuilt. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

No injuries in single-vehicle rollover south of Port Townsend on state Highway 20

PORT TOWNSEND — An unidentified man was taken to Jefferson Healthcare as a precaution Thursday afternoon after the sport utility vehicle he was driving left… Continue reading

Sam Davies and Rebeca Hanson

Money pours in to replace donation funds after robbery at Port Angeles espresso stand

PORT ANGELES — The co-owner of the espresso stand along U.S. Highway 101 that lost $100 in Habitat for Humanity donations in a robbery last… Continue reading

Sam Davies and Rebeca Hanson

No injuries in single-vehicle rollover south of Port Townsend on state Highway 20

PORT TOWNSEND — An unidentified man was taken to Jefferson Healthcare as a precaution Thursday afternoon after the sport utility vehicle he was driving left… Continue reading

Port Angeles concert Saturday to benefit Oso fire department in wake of mudslide

PORT ANGELES — Live music will be the catalyst Saturday night, bringing local residents together behind the families affected by the Oso landslide. Chantilly Lace,… Continue reading

State: No Chambers Creek steelhead in Dungeness River until lawsuit resolved

OLYMPIA — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is not releasing Chambers Creek steelhead in the Dungeness and other rivers that drain into Puget… Continue reading

The Sequim elk herd rests in a field above Brownfield Road just south of U.S. Highway 101 on Thursday. — Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Dungeness elk herd hunting season ends with 17 animals taken

SEQUIM –– Seventeen Roosevelt elk, all but two male, were culled from the Dungeness herd during the six-month hunting season that ended this week. “I… Continue reading

The Sequim elk herd rests in a field above Brownfield Road just south of U.S. Highway 101 on Thursday. — Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
The Sequim elk herd rests in a field above Brownfield Road just south of U.S. Highway 101 on Thursday. — Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Dungeness elk herd hunting season ends with 17 animals taken

SEQUIM –– Seventeen Roosevelt elk, all but two male, were culled from the Dungeness herd during the six-month hunting season that ended this week. “I… Continue reading

The Sequim elk herd rests in a field above Brownfield Road just south of U.S. Highway 101 on Thursday. — Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
Ben Johnson in 2009

Former Makah tribal chairman dead at 74

NEAH BAY — A celebration of life is set at 1 p.m. Saturday for Ben Johnson Jr., who led the Makah tribal council during its… Continue reading

Ben Johnson in 2009
Ben Johnson

Former Makah tribal chairman dies of heart attack

NEAH BAY — Ben Johnson, a former Makah tribal chairman, has died. The Neah Bay resident was 74 when he died of a heart attack… Continue reading

Ben Johnson

Case involving ex-assistant coach in Sequim referred back to county

SEQUIM –– The city has referred back to the Clallam County prosecutors a case against a former assistant Sequim High School basketball coach accused of… Continue reading

Group to sue state over Dungeness water rule

SEQUIM –– The Olympic Resource Protection Council has decided it will sue the state over a rule that governs water use in the Dungeness Valley.… Continue reading

No DNA database match for skull found in crab pot

By The Associated Press WESTPORT — Authorities say a human skull found in a crab pot off the Washington coast belongs to a female, but… Continue reading

  • Apr 3, 2014
  • By The Associated Press

State supreme court OKs $57 million verdict for home-care workers

By GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press SEATTLE — Washington's Supreme Court on Thursday narrowly upheld a $57 million verdict against the state in a case… Continue reading

  • Apr 3, 2014
  • By GENE JOHNSON The Associated Press
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  • Apr 3, 2014
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Firefighters help unload publicly donated equipment to aid the search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the massive mudslide. The Asociated Press

How to help the victims of the Oso mudslide

By Peninsula Daily News news services EDITOR'S NOTE — The Daily Herald of Everett, a sister newspaper of the Peninsula Daily News, has in-depth coverage… Continue reading

  • Apr 3, 2014
  • By Peninsula Daily News news services
Firefighters help unload publicly donated equipment to aid the search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the massive mudslide. The Asociated Press
Delaney Webb

Quilcene woman learns of fourth loved one’s death in Oso mudslide

QUILCENE — The Oso mudslide has left a gaping hole in Tamara Lenzen's family. The Quilcene-area resident learned Wednesday that the wall of mud that… Continue reading

Delaney Webb

Umpqua-Sterling bank merger nears completion. Sterling branches in Forks, Port Angeles, will become Umpqua banks

Peninsula Daily News and Associated Press PORTLAND — A merger between Portland-based Umpqua Bank and Spokane-based Sterling Bank is set for completion by April 18,… Continue reading

  • Apr 3, 2014
  • Peninsula Daily News and Associated Press
Port Angeles Mayor Dan Di Guilio

‘Grand’ international affair in Port Angeles as cycling team arrives to start journey down coast

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles waterfront was the site of an international social exchange from across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. The Grand Riders… Continue reading

Port Angeles Mayor Dan Di Guilio

BUSINESS BRIEF — Estes Builders in Sequim names new assistant

SEQUIM — Estes Builders has appointed Carla Sebastian as administrative assistant. Bringing with her more than 18 years of combined administrative and office management experience,… Continue reading