Michelle Weber stocks shelves with fireworks Friday at a stand operated by the Port Angeles High School Football Booster Club in the parking lot of Swain's General Store in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Fourth of July fireworks — when you can blow things up on the Peninsula to celebrate nation’s independence

Keep it safe, be sane and have a good time this Fourth of July, local fire officials say. Consumer fireworks are being sold at licensed… Continue reading

Michelle Weber stocks shelves with fireworks Friday at a stand operated by the Port Angeles High School Football Booster Club in the parking lot of Swain's General Store in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Sequim City Councilman Ken Hays

Future of Sequim’s Guy Cole Convention Center debated during tour of facility

SEQUIM –– What purpose would a rebuilt Guy Cole Convention Center serve? That question drove a recent two-hour discussion about remodeling the aging center in… Continue reading

Sequim City Councilman Ken Hays
“Hole in the Wall” by Margo Hankel is one of the works that will be on display at Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim.

NEWS BRIEFS — Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim to feature art of 2 painters for month of July . . . and other items

SEQUIM — Award-winning painter Deborah Sterk and noted watercolorist Margo Hankel are the featured artists of the month of July at the Blue Whole Gallery.… Continue reading

“Hole in the Wall” by Margo Hankel is one of the works that will be on display at Blue Whole Gallery in Sequim.
Ranger and the Re-Arrangers concert at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Sequim . . . and other free outdoor concerts this week

Ranger and the Re-Arrangers concert at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Sequim . . . and other free outdoor concerts this week

This week's schedule of free outdoor music on the North Olympic Peninsula: â–  SEQUIM — Tuesday, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Ranger and the Re-Arrangers… Continue reading

Ranger and the Re-Arrangers concert at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Sequim . . . and other free outdoor concerts this week

Royal B.C. Museum to kick off July events with penny carnival Tuesday

VICTORIA — The Royal B.C. Museum has a full slate of events for the month of July. To kick off the month, the simple pleasures… Continue reading

State Department of Ecology awards $250,000 contract for oil transport study

OLYMPIA — The state Department of Ecology has awarded a $250,000 contract for an analysis of the impacts of marine and rail oil transportation in… Continue reading

Matt Fleming

State to same-sex domestic partners: You’re married starting today

By RACHEL LA CORTE The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Matt Fleming has considered himself a married man ever since he and his partner, Casey Jackson,… Continue reading

  • Jun 30, 2014
  • By RACHEL LA CORTE The Associated Press
Matt Fleming
Time for you to decide: Best of Peninsula 2014 voting is underway

Time for you to decide: Best of Peninsula 2014 voting is underway

IT'S TIME AGAIN to vote for Best of the Peninsula 2014 in separate Clallam County and Jefferson County polling! For the third straight year, all… Continue reading

  • Jun 30, 2014
Time for you to decide: Best of Peninsula 2014 voting is underway
Westerdam was at the start of a 7-day Alaska cruise when the fire broke out. The Associated Press

Westerdam cruise ship leaves Seattle again for trip to Alaska following fire

By The Associated Press SEATTLE — A cruise ship that returned to Seattle after a fire in its boiler room left the port again on… Continue reading

  • Jun 30, 2014
  • By The Associated Press
Westerdam was at the start of a 7-day Alaska cruise when the fire broke out. The Associated Press
The front window of Angeles Beauty Supply & Salon was one of two decorated shop windows to take first place in the sixth annual Pink Up Port Angeles window contest. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Winners announced in Pink Up Port Angeles contest; 4 contestants split honors

PORT ANGELES — Businesses pinked up so well this year that four won the sixth annual Pink Up Port Angeles window contest. Two tied for… Continue reading

The front window of Angeles Beauty Supply & Salon was one of two decorated shop windows to take first place in the sixth annual Pink Up Port Angeles window contest. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Port Angeles Public Works Inspector Jeremy Pozernick stands next to a trash compactor at the former landfill in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Work to begin in weeks on project to pull refuse back from bluff in Port Angeles landfill

PORT ANGELES — Work on a multi-million dollar effort to shift decades of buried garbage in the city's shuttered landfill away from a failing bluff… Continue reading

Port Angeles Public Works Inspector Jeremy Pozernick stands next to a trash compactor at the former landfill in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Hosts of History Channel's “Top Gear” Adam Ferrara

‘Top Gear’ episode filmed in Forks to air Tuesday; eateries plan to tune in to let patrons see West End appearance on History Channel

FORKS — All of Forks just might be planted in front of a TV set at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the premiere of an episode… Continue reading

Hosts of History Channel's “Top Gear” Adam Ferrara
Port Angeles Public Works Inspector Jeremy Pozernick stands next to a trash compactor at the former landfill in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Work to begin in weeks on project to pull back refuse from bluff in Port Angeles landfill

PORT ANGELES — Work on a multi-million dollar effort to shift decades of buried garbage in the city's shuttered landfill away from a failing bluff… Continue reading

Port Angeles Public Works Inspector Jeremy Pozernick stands next to a trash compactor at the former landfill in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
The front window of Angeles Beauty Supply & Salon was one of two decorated shop windows to take first place in the sixth annual Pink Up Port Angeles window contest. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Winners announced in Pink Up Port Angeles contest; 4 contestants split honors

PORT ANGELES — Businesses pinked up so well this year that four won the sixth annual Pink Up Port Angeles window contest. Two tied for… Continue reading

The front window of Angeles Beauty Supply & Salon was one of two decorated shop windows to take first place in the sixth annual Pink Up Port Angeles window contest. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Allied Titanium hits financing hurdles on way to Sequim expansion

SEQUIM — Allied Titanium has secured a machine to do some of the manufacturing work it plans for a location in Sequim, but it is… Continue reading

Westerdam was at the start of a 7-day Alaska cruise when the fire broke out. The Associated Press

UPDATED — Cruise ship leaves Seattle again following fire

By The Associated Press SEATTLE — A cruise ship that returned to Seattle after a fire in its boiler room left the port again on… Continue reading

  • Jun 29, 2014
  • By The Associated Press
Westerdam was at the start of a 7-day Alaska cruise when the fire broke out. The Associated Press
Matt Fleming

State to same-sex domestic partners: You’re about to be married

By RACHEL LA CORTE The Associated Press OLYMPIA (AP) — Matt Fleming has considered himself a married man ever since he and his partner, Casey… Continue reading

  • Jun 29, 2014
  • By RACHEL LA CORTE The Associated Press
Matt Fleming
Murder try with a needle at Olympic Medical Center?

Murder try with a needle at Olympic Medical Center?

PORT ANGELES — Insulin was the weapon in an alleged attempted murder, police say. Robbie Wayne Davis, 39, is expected to be charged Tuesday in… Continue reading

Murder try with a needle at Olympic Medical Center?

Governor, congressman slated to attend ‘invitation-only’ change of command at Port Angeles Coast Guard station

PORT ANGELES — Gov. Jay Inslee and U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer are expected to attend an invitation-only change of command ceremony at the Port Angeles… Continue reading

Forks firemen from Clallam County Fire District No. 1 inspect an overturned vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 a mile south of Forks early Saturday morning. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News

Pickup wrecks on Highway 101 south of Forks

FORKS — A Forks man was taken to Forks Community Hospital as a precaution after the pickup truck he was driving south along U.S. Highway… Continue reading

Forks firemen from Clallam County Fire District No. 1 inspect an overturned vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 a mile south of Forks early Saturday morning. Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News