Port Angeles: Proposed City Hall reorganization plan has its critics from council, commission and public

PORT ANGELES -- After protests from 11 speakers and two of its own members, the City Council agreed Tuesday night to delay consideration of a… Continue reading

Port Angeles: School Board figuring out just how much of a tax levy to ask for

PORT ANGELES -- As the ballot deadline to announce the amount and tax collection rate of a proposed four-year maintenance and operations levy nears, members… Continue reading

Racy mural, star of bar, screen and Port Townsend legend, will return to its rightful place

PORT TOWNSEND -- The Merx Mural, a Port Townsend landmark that for more than 20 years hung over the bar at the former Town Tavern… Continue reading

Sequim: Father of boy, 14, accused of plotting to kill football coaches faces charges of his own

SEQUIM -- The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of plotting to murder three high school football coaches has been charged with witness tampering. Prosecutors… Continue reading

Sequim: How double murderer fled private Seattle transitional home

When John V. Carothers' community corrections officer last visited him at his residential facility in Seattle on Nov. 8, she told him to report back… Continue reading

Comprehensive growth management plan handed to Jefferson County commissioners

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County planners on Monday handed over close to a year's worth of work to county commissioners, asking them to review and… Continue reading

Floor of new Sequim transportation, community center too wet to lay flooring

SEQUIM -- A ground-floor issue -- the ground floor itself -- is all that's blocking completion of the Sequim Transportation Center. The building, which also… Continue reading

Lucky Jefferson: “We’re the county with the vaccine” — including some for Clallam

QUILCENE -- If you fit the high-risk flu category, Merrily Mount is happy and ready to get right to the point with you. And you… Continue reading

Other potential buyers could step up to buy Port of Port Angeles-owned site rejected for alder sawmill

PORT ANGELES -- The Port of Port Angeles will take another look at the future of the 113-acre former Critchfield property now that Washington Alder… Continue reading

Port Angeles City Council due to consider reorganization plan tonight

The Port Angeles City Council tonight is expected to discuss plans to fold its Parks and Recreation Department into the Public Works and Utilities Department… Continue reading

U.S. Marshal’s Service involved in search for escaped murderer

The U.S. Marshal's Service is looking for the murderer of a Sequim-area couple who escaped from a Seattle halfway house. The state Department of Corrections… Continue reading

Washington Alder unit buys 30-acre Port Angeles industrial park site for sawmill

PORT ANGELES -- The sawmill planned on a controversial 113-acre site near Edgewood Drive will be built instead on a 30-acre site formerly used for… Continue reading

Cedar burial boxes handmade for Klallam ancestors

The smell of cedar and the buzz of an electric saw can be heard throughout the day -- and often into the night -- on… Continue reading

Habitat for Humanity homes dedicated in Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND -- With prayers, presents and blessings, two Habitat for Humanity houses were dedicated Sunday and stand ready to receive their new families. "We… Continue reading

Port Ludlow resident leads drive against electronic voting

PORT LUDLOW -- Election watchdog Ellen Theisen hopes the margin in the Washington governor's race -- already razor thin -- grows thinner, thinner and thinner.… Continue reading

Port Ludlow woman begins term on State School for Blind board

PORT LUDLOW -- Sherry Perry, new appointee to the board of the Washington State School for the Blind, admits she hasn't seen many blind people… Continue reading

Sequim soldier, 52, sees duty in Iraq

SEQUIM -- America was fighting the Vietnam War when Mark Baker joined the U.S. military. More than three decades later, 52-year-old Baker is still in… Continue reading

Sewer rate hikes on Port Angeles agenda again Tuesday

PORT ANGELES -- A public hearing on the city's proposed $2 a month increase in residential sewer rates continues at Tuesday's City Council meeting. The… Continue reading

Tools especially crafted to help tribal members, archaeologists at graving yard site

PORT ANGELES -- When Lower Elwha Klallam tribal workers at the graving yard site needed special tools to excavate human remains and artifacts, they turned… Continue reading

Clallam PUD ponders its future with Bonneville

PORT ANGELES -- The federal power marketing agency that provides 99 percent of the Clallam County Public Utility District's electricity could undergo major changes in… Continue reading