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
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 29, 2014
Time for you to decide: Best of Peninsula 2014 voting is underway
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 29, 2014
Time for you to decide: Best of Peninsula 2014 voting is underway
Port Townsend Summer Band concert at 3 p.m. today . . . and other free outdoor concerts this week

Port Townsend Summer Band concert at 3 p.m. today . . . and other free outdoor concerts this week

This week's schedule of free outdoor music on the North Olympic Peninsula: â–  PORT TOWNSEND — Today at 3 p.m., the first of two performances… Continue reading

Port Townsend Summer Band concert at 3 p.m. today . . . and other free outdoor concerts this week
Chris Duff at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles a month after he successfully rowed an ocean-going kayak from Scotland to Iceland. — Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Third time’s a charm: Port Angeles adventurer conquers row from Scotland to Iceland

PORT ANGELES — After rowing solo for a week on the North Atlantic Ocean, Chris Duff was elated to touch land in a tiny fishing… Continue reading

Chris Duff at Hollywood Beach in Port Angeles a month after he successfully rowed an ocean-going kayak from Scotland to Iceland. — Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Bill Berger begins a short training run earlier this month in preparation for his cycling statewide.  —Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Port Angeles father pedaling state to urge police crisis-intervention training after son’s death

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man plans to leave today to drive and bicycle to every county in Washington state to tell the story… Continue reading

Bill Berger begins a short training run earlier this month in preparation for his cycling statewide.  —Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
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