Forks: Visitor center expanding because of increased tourist demand

FORKS -- Growing demand for West End visitor information has led to an expansion project that will add office and work space to the Forks… Continue reading

Jefferson: EDC starts over in quest for executive director

PORT TOWNSEND -- Recruiting efforts to find an executive director for the Economic Development Council of Jefferson County are beginning again after the original appointee… Continue reading

Jefferson: Feelings run high over ‘pit to pier’ during county hearing in Chimacum gym

CHIMACUM -- Opponents of Fred Hill Materials' proposed "pit-to-pier" project linking the company's Shine gravel pit to a barge-loading pier on Hood Canal dominated a… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Teen credited with saving house from fire

PORT ANGELES -- Quint Chastain has grown up knowing fire safety. As the son of a career firefighter, "he's been around smoke detectors all his… Continue reading

Port Hadlock: Sewage treatment plant proposed next to Jefferson County airport

PORT HADLOCK -- The Port of Port Townsend wants to use land next to the airport as the site of a new sewage treatment plant… Continue reading

Sequim: City Council gives green light, and community center immediately torn down rather than renovated

SEQUIM -- All they needed was a nod from the City Council. They got that Wednesday morning. Within minutes, work crews from Fischer General Contracting… Continue reading

Clallam: PA pool work session rescheduled for June 14

PORT ANGELES -- A City Council work session originally set for 5 p.m. today on the future of William Shore Memorial Pool on Fifth Street… Continue reading

Clallam: Union wants shelters built for courthouse smokers

A Teamsters union official representing about 250 Clallam County workers has asked county leaders to consider building a shelter where courthouse employees can smoke. The… Continue reading

GRIM FUTURE LOOMS FOR HOUSING AID FAMILIES

PORT ANGELES -- They are poverty-level women with children who have lived in tents, parking lots, tiny travel trailers and shacks without plumbing or electricity.… Continue reading

PORT ANGELES: SHOOTING SUSPECT FACES CHARGES TODAY

PORT ANGELES -- A man arrested last weekend after allegedly firing a semiautomatic shotgun at four people will face formal charging today in Clallam County… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Some residents to save on water bills

PORT ANGELES -- Some city water customers could see the monthly base charge for water service reduced by $1.90 to $3.15 a month under a… Continue reading

WEST END: MAKAH PANEL MEETS TODAY ON WHALING RULING

NEAH BAY -- A day after a federal appeals court denied the Makah tribe's petition for a new hearing on its right to hunt gray… Continue reading

A Peninsula tribute from a man who was there

Like millions of other Americans, Jefferson County Commissioner Pat Rodgers mourned former President Reagan. Rodgers was director of planning and analysis for the U.S. General… Continue reading

Clallam Bay: Huge fish kill spurs residents to open river mouth

CLALLAM BAY -- After at least 2,000 trapped salmon and steelhead smolts died high and dry at the Clallam River mouth late last week, residents… Continue reading

Clallam: Public safety officials, civic and business leaders huddle over ways to stop highway carnage

PORT ANGELES -- It was a veritable who's-who of public safety figures, traffic coordinators, elected officials and North Olympic Peninsula business representatives. And the objective… Continue reading

Jefferson: Commissioner worries about Center Road from trucks during Hood Canal Bridge closure

A Jefferson County commissioner thinks county officials should try for mitigation money to pay for repair and/or reconstruction of Center Road following the 2007 closure… Continue reading

Neah Bay: Makah, federal government rebuffed in bid for reconsideration of whaling halt

NEAH BAY -- The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to deny the Makah tribe's petition with the federal government to reconsider its… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Compromise plan to keep Monroe School open has strings attached

PORT ANGELES -- A compromise proposal to keep Monroe Elementary School open next year was proposed by two members of the Port Angeles School District… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Conference center could miss construction deadline

PORT ANGELES -- The proposed Marriott hotel and conference center project could miss its Sept. 4 ground-breaking deadline. But the state Department of Ecology-imposed deadline… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Historic preservation measures approved by council, but not before some contentiousness

PORT TOWNSEND -- Contentiousness ruled the hour Monday night as City Council members worked on various aspects of the Historic Preservation Code. In the end,… Continue reading