‘This guy just likes killing and leaving them’ — is this cougar a serial killer?

COYLE -- A large cougar that appears to be indiscriminately killing, but not necessarily eating, domestic animals on the Toandos Peninsula has its tracker encouraging… Continue reading

As young as you feel: Senior Games conclude today

PORT ANGELES -- Today is the final day of the Olympic Peninsula Senior Games, which drew a record number of competitors this year. At least… Continue reading

Convict’s confession: ‘I just strangled her’ — Covarrubias retraces steps with officers

PORT ANGELES -- Robert Gene Covarrubias got his wish. Prisoner No. 810822 turned 29 on Saturday while sitting in the intensive management unit at the… Continue reading

Fire above Brinnon ‘like a fireworks display’

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Despite flames one Duckabush Road homeowner described as "like Roman candles" and thick smoke visible as far away as Olympia last… Continue reading

Harbor-Works calls special meeting on Rayonier agreement

PORT ANGELES -- In a special meeting on Monday that could jump-start the cleanup of the 75-acre former mill site on Port Angeles Harbor, the… Continue reading

Law vague on Sequim’s closed-door interviews for city manager

SEQUIM ­-- Is the Sequim City Council conducting its search for a new city manager in a gray legal area by interviewing candidates behind closed… Continue reading

Neah Bay man faces federal charges in drug bust; Ecstasy worth $720,000

NEAH BAY -- A 21-year-old Neah Bay man is in federal custody after attempting to smuggle about 60,000 tablets of the illegal drug Ecstasy from… Continue reading

New book recounts Tse-whit-zen history, spreads the blame

11Within days, the first of many human remains were discovered. The tragic controversy that followed is chronicled with historical perspective in a new book, Breaking… Continue reading

PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: Bernanke personal bank account struck by ID theft

The Associated Press WASHINGTON — No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Ben Bernanke's personal checking account… Continue reading

  • Aug 30, 2009
  • The Associated Press

Photos, videos of multi-national Coast Guard exercises off Port Angeles

The Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft Siyay, at right, zooms into Port Angeles Harbor as part of the U.S. Coast Guard-sponsored exercise, Pacific Unity 2009, during… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles opts not to protest NOAA move to Oregon

PORT ANGELES ­-- Two bidders hoping to house the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Fleet filed protests by Friday's deadline against the decision to… Continue reading

Reporter-author married to major figure in her book

PORT ANGELES ­-- Lynda Mapes, who wrote Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village, is married to Doug MacDonald,… Continue reading

State parks relying on license tab fees

Peninsula Daily News news sources OLYMPIA -- Dozens of state parks in Washington state -- including three on the North Olympic Peninsula -- were on… Continue reading

  • Aug 30, 2009
  • Peninsula Daily News news sources

Riding to the rescue: Homeless horses need new owners

QUILCENE -- Three weeks ago, Sara Penhallegon received a call from a Port Hadlock man who had lost his property to foreclosure. The house had… Continue reading

Tickets in N.Y., Calif. win monster Mega Millions jackpot

The $333 Mega Millions jackpot in the lottery game played in Washington and 11 other states was won Friday night by two ticket holders. But… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2009

See the wheels turning: Bikes for everyone

PORT TOWNSEND -- Chauncey Tudhope-Locklear's dream comes on two wheels. It's a vision of putting at least half of Port Townsend's population on bicycles by… Continue reading

Coast Guard seizes 60,000 ecstasy tablets off Neah Bay

NEAH BAY — The Coast Guard has seized about 60,000 ecstasy tablets from a small boat in the waters off Neah Bay. The 18-foot boat,… Continue reading

NOAA rejects Port of Port Angeles request to extend deadline for protest of decision

PORT ANGELES ¬­-- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration won't extend today's deadline for filing a protest of the agency's decision to relocate its research… Continue reading

Arbiter rules in favor of Forks firings

FORKS -- Seattle arbiter John Hayduke determined this month that the city of Forks had sufficient cause to fire three Forks Police Department employees in… Continue reading

Construction project begins in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES -- A $515,699 project to install sidewalks, curbs and gutters has begun this week on First Street between Liberty and Alder. The 10-week… Continue reading