Work begins on span and pilings removal

PORT TOWNSEND -- Workers with a Port Gamble-based company on Tuesday began to dismantle an old transfer span, towers and wingwall near the Boat Haven… Continue reading

Boys & Girls Club seeks money for teen program

SEQUIM -- It's at the top of the mayor's list and it could see some $100,000 in city money -- but will it be cool?… Continue reading

FAA wants environmental assessment done before any Lincoln Park trees removed

PORT ANGELES -- The Federal Aviation Administration wants an environmental assessment that could take nine months before any of Lincoln Park's tallest trees are felled… Continue reading

Jefferson commissioners to consider new rules on no-shoot zones

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County commissioners will hear from the public on Nov. 6 on new proposals to create no-shoot zones in the county. Signatures… Continue reading

Landing mall buyer selected – — – and losing bidder irked

PORT ANGELES -- The waterfront's salmon-colored Landing mall will get new owners. Port of Port Angeles commissioners Monday agreed to sell the pier and structures… Continue reading

Rogers bashes Braun over alternative to aquatic center bond; PDN also criticized for publishing story

PORT ANGELES -- Mayor Karen Rogers blasted City Councilman Gary Braun on Monday for publicly proposing an alternative to the $13.8 million aquatic center bond… Continue reading

Sequim School District sells land, looks ahead

SEQUIM -- Tom Schaafsma, co-owner of All Safe Mini Storage, a Rotarian and supporter of Olympic Theatre Arts and the Parenting Matters Foundation, has purchased… Continue reading

Speakers debate Initiative 933

PORT ANGELES -- Initiative 933 either will preserve property rights or saddle Washington taxpayers with a $1,000-per-payer burden. It either will loosen government regulations on… Continue reading

Clallam: Groups to discuss emergency shelter in PA

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County's network of shelter providers will receive an update Wednesday on an Overnight Emergency Outreach Shelter planned east of downtown Port… Continue reading

Jefferson: Homeless shelter finds a home in PT

PORT TOWNSEND -- Homeless men looking for a warm place to spend a cold night will have an easier search this winter if plans for… Continue reading

PENINSULA: CLALLAM STILL AWAITING FLU VACCINES

While Jefferson County public health officials have launched clinics to provide flu vaccines, their counterparts in Clallam County still await the 2,500 doses on order.… Continue reading

Sequim: Stricken football player ‘doing really great’

SEATTLE -- Sequim High School football player Adrien Gault was "doing really great"' in Harborview Medical Center on Sunday, his mother said, following brain surgery… Continue reading

Blue Glacier on Mount Olympus used to gauge global warming

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Blue Glacier is a study in trickle-down ecology -- with a warning that soon there may be nothing left to trickle.… Continue reading

Lincoln Park trees likely to be felled because of federal rules on airport

PORT ANGELES -- As many as 200 trees could be removed from Lincoln Park and the area around William R. Fairchild International Airport for an… Continue reading

Port Angeles city councilman has idea if voters reject aquatic center bond

PORT ANGELES -- The City Council's lone dissenter will offer an alternative plan if voters reject the $13.8 million aquatic center bond issue on the… Continue reading

State abruptly halts work on Port Townsend ferry terminal project

PORT TOWNSEND -- Work on a $36 million expansion of the Port Townsend ferry terminal is suspended, for now. Whether or not work resumes on… Continue reading

Two high-profile court cases postponed

PORT ANGELES -- Two high-profile Clallam County court hearings have been pushed back. Attorneys will argue this week that a man convicted of raping and… Continue reading

Coast Seafoods cleaning up oyster predator

QUILCENE -- The people at Coast Seafoods, the largest oyster seed producer in the world, don't take kindly to Japanese oyster drills. After all, the… Continue reading

Dicks will push for ‘virtual VA clinic’

PORT ANGELES -- U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks promised veterans Thursday he'll draft a bill to make a "virtual VA clinic" a pilot project on the… Continue reading

Injured logger flown from Neah Bay

NEAH BAY -- A Coast Guard helicopter flew a logger crushed by a tree to a Seattle hospital on Thursday. The man's name and age… Continue reading