Clallam commissioners put excise tax proposal on Nov. 8 ballot

Clallam County voters will decide the fate of a proposed half-percent real estate buyer's excise tax Nov. 8. County commissioners voted Tuesday to place the… Continue reading

Hood Canal Bridge opens early … again

SHINE -- Eighty hours? Who needs 80 hours? Despite repeated warnings that the second Hood Canal Bridge closure would not go as quickly as the… Continue reading

What’s next for Hood Canal Bridge?

SHINE -- Hood Canal Bridge is open once again, but there's still plenty of work to be done down the road. State Department of Transportation… Continue reading

Court appears next in spat over firing range noise

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County officials are expected to seek an injunction this week in Superior Court to halt a homeland security training center's operations… Continue reading

Port Angeles declares “serious” water shortage, urges conservation

PORT ANGELES -- The city declared a Stage 2, or "serious," water shortage Monday due to low flows in the Elwha River, the main source… Continue reading

Port Angeles man, shot by a Neah Bay police officer, charged with stalking, assault

NEAH BAY -- A man shot in the leg by a Neah Bay police officer Aug. 14 was charged Monday with two counts of second-degree… Continue reading

Serenity House seeks to buy former Tempest youth center/Aggie’s restaurant for homeless-youth center

PORT ANGELES -- Plans are under way for Serenity House of Clallam County to purchase part of what used to be Aggie's Restaurant and Motel… Continue reading

Two 1% Port Townsend property tax increases clear first hurdles

PORT TOWNSEND -- The City Council gave preliminary approval Monday to a 1 percent property tax increase In a 4-3 vote after the council's first… Continue reading

Forks: Handbook for high school students in the works

FORKS -- It doesn't get much clearer. If a Forks High School student threatens another student with a knife or some other weapon on campus,… Continue reading

Jefferson: Snohomish powwow draws tribal family together

MARROWSTONE ISLAND -- For thousands of summers, their ancestors traveled over the water to these beaches to fish for salmon, dig clams and celebrate the… Continue reading

Llama play day ends Clallam Fair on happy note

PORT ANGELES -- Roxi Baxley puts the llama in the rama llama ding dong. With no apologies to The Edsels' recording of the 1961 hit… Continue reading

Peninsula: Diver who drowned loved teaching, living life to fullest

PORT TOWNSEND -- Victor Porter loved basketball so deeply he changed careers so he could coach the game. Porter, 58, who took the Chimacum High… Continue reading

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