Peninsula: Hood Canal Bridge closes on schedule for repairs

SHINE -- You don't want to be here if you're trying to get there from here. The Hood Canal Bridge closed at 8 p.m. Sunday,… Continue reading

Port Angeles: City to conduct youth skateboard classes

PORT ANGELES -- Port Angeles is getting a new skateboard park on Labor Day weekend. Now come the classes to complement it. A pilot youth… Continue reading

Forks City Council member resigns

PORT ANGELES -- Denise Graham loves Forks. That's why it's so hard for her to leave. At Monday's City Council meeting, the council is scheduled… Continue reading

Port Townsend diver dies off Cape Flattery

NEAH BAY -- A Port Townsend man died Saturday morning while scuba diving off Tatoosh Island northwest of Cape Flattery. Victor W. Porter, 58, was… Continue reading

Port Townsend man’s WWII heroism part of new movie on “The Great Raid”

PORT TOWNSEND -- Sixty years after his battalion raided a brutal Japanese prisoner of war camp and rescued more than 500 Americans, a Port Townsend… Continue reading

Second annual Bichon Bash raises dog rescue funds

SEQUIM -- When Bonnie and Gordon McGill told folks to come over on Saturday afternoon and bring the dogs, people listened. The owners of 68… Continue reading

Virus affects Jeffcom services, disrupts 9-1-1

PORT HADLOCK -- Jefferson County officials suspect that the software virus Zotob affected computer systems serving emergency and county services for about 10 hours on… Continue reading

You”ve got a date at 8 — Hood Canal Bridge closes tonight

SHINE -- Travelers wanting to cross Hood Canal Bridge have a deadline -- 8 o"clock tonight. Otherwise, you'll have to drive around, take a ferry… Continue reading

Bridge closure Part II: Hood Canal span shuts down Sunday night for eastern approach span replacement

SHINE -- As heavy as 100 gray whales and slower than a banana slug. That's how state Department of Transportation officials characterize the second Hood… Continue reading

Buck says tribe, state should return to March land swap offer

PORT ANGELES -- The shortest course to resolving the Tse-whit-zen controversy is returning to a land swap legislators offered to the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe… Continue reading

Free passenger ferry to run between Port Ludlow-Kingston during bridge closure

PORT LUDLOW -- It's free but you better get in line early. So say Port Ludlow Chamber of Commerce officials coordinating next week's Aqua Express… Continue reading

Man accused of being naked on Sequim Bay captured after allegedly flashing Port Townsend concert-goers

PORT TOWNSEND -- A Port Townsend man who caught the attention of a Coast Guard helicopter on Tuesday by standing naked on the bow of… Continue reading

Port Angeles man charged with three counts of vehicular homicide

PORT ANGELES -- A 48-year-old man was charged Thursday with three counts of vehicular homicide in connection with a car collision earlier this month that… Continue reading

Port Townsend ferry cancellations due to tides

The year's final round of tidal interruptions to Port Townsend-Keystone ferry service continues through this weekend. Scheduled runs from Port Townsend at 6:30 a.m. and… Continue reading

Big Fine Daddies to rock the Port Townsend dock tonight

The Big Fine Daddies will rock the Port Townsend waterfront tonight, another in a series of free summer Concerts on the Dock. The Big Fine… Continue reading

Kier resigns as Port Ludlow fire chief

PORT LUDLOW -- Jefferson County Fire District No. 3 commissioners, with many words of support and appreciation, unanimously accepted Port Ludlow Fire Chief Wayne Kier… Continue reading

Legal action looming against training center, Jefferson County official says

PORT TOWNSEND -- New legal action is expected to be taken against a Discovery Bay-based homeland security training operation early next week. Jefferson County Department… Continue reading

Police arrest man involved in triple-fatality crash on U.S. Highway 101

PORT ANGELES -- The man law enforcement officials believe caused a collision on U.S. Highway 101 earlier this month that killed three Port Angeles men… Continue reading

Port Angeles continues electricity rate hike hearing to Sept. 6

PORT ANGELES -- Tuesday's public hearing on a proposed 9.8 percent electricity rate increase was continued until the City Council's Sept. 6 meeting. The new… Continue reading

Resolution may be forthcoming in graving yard controversy

PORT ANGELES -- A solution to the impasse over Tse-whit-zen, site of the former Hood Canal Bridge graving yard, could come soon through the efforts… Continue reading