Peninsula: Timber companies, environmentalists keep hand in water planning

CLALLAM BAY -- Timber companies and environmentalists, at loggerheads for months over water quality in streams that flow into the Strait of Juan de Fuca,… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Habitat family home for the holidays

PORT TOWNSEND -- Halloween is just around the corner, with Thanksgiving and Christmas, and all the preparation that goes into them, not far behind. But… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Residents make AIDS walk a success

PORT TOWNSEND -- Albert Hernandez can give you two good reasons why Sunday's AIDS walk is so important. One, the man who was living in… Continue reading

Gas costs hurt school districts – Most school buses get about 6 miles per gallon and rack up thousands of miles a year

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS PORT ANGELES -- Driving pinches your wallet as long as pump prices stay high. But imagine having to continually fill up a… Continue reading

Peninsula: Inventory Areas create debate about water resources

PORT ANGELES -- Think "west" and you think "wet" -- the west ends of Clallam and Jefferson counties and their wet climate, that is. But… Continue reading

Peninsula: Sol Duc-Hoh watershed discussions less contentious

FORKS -- Keeping forests as forests and farms as farms is as important to the planners of Water Resources Inventory Area 20 as keeping salmon… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Hiker released from hospital

PORT ANGELES - -- - Brian Gawley, the 39-year-old reporter lost for three nights in Olympic National Park, was released from Olympic Medical Center on… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Westport seeking workers from devastated Gulf Coast area

PORT ANGELES -- Westport Shipyard wants to float the boats of marine-trades workers who lost their jobs to Hurricane Katrina. The relocated employees, in turn,… Continue reading

Sequim: Groups raise $5,558 in three hours for hurricane victims

SEQUIM -- Five organizations working at three sites raised $5,558 in three hours Friday for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Earl Jones of Sequim, a member… Continue reading

West End: Slide reduces Highway 101 to one lane near Forks

FORKS -- The major north-south highway servicing the Olympic Peninsula was reduced to a single lane about six miles south of Forks on Friday. The… Continue reading

Jefferson: Airport taxiway, hangar construction delayed

PORT TOWNSEND -- Although construction of new taxiways and hangar sites at Jefferson County International Airport is delayed until spring, infrastructure preparation work is expected… Continue reading

Peninsula: College’s dorm-room furniture donated to non-profit agencies

PORT ANGELES -- What do you do with college dorm room furniture when the dorm building is about to be leveled? One option is to… Continue reading

Peninsula: College’s old dorms coming down soon

PORT ANGELES -- It looks like a war zone inside. Desks are knocked over. Doors lie strewn about the floor. Whole walls have been ripped… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Olympic National Park recounts search events

PORT ANGELES -- An Olympic National Park spokeswoman said that despite coming at the end of the summer season when staff and rescue equipment are… Continue reading

Woman allegedly sicks fighting dogs on boyfriend

PORT ANGELES -- A Port Angeles woman was charged with second-degree assault Wednesday for allegedly sicking her two pit bull mixes on her live-in boyfriend… Continue reading

Coast Guard plucks lost hiker from canyon west of PA

PORT ANGELES -- After three nights of being lost, hungry, exposed to the weather and without his glasses in Olympic National Park, a missing hiker… Continue reading

Jefferson: Pet Pals animal agency reaches milestone

PORT HADLOCK -- When they started keeping count of animals spayed or neutered in 2002, Olympic Mountain Pet Pals volunteers never dreamed they would hit… Continue reading

Peninsula: Tsunami alert system works, county officials said

PORT ANGELES -- A test of the tsunami alert system went off without a hitch Wednesday for the Clallam and Jefferson county emergency management divisions.… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Homes Tour highlights family heritage

PORT TOWNSEND -- When Helen Gunn wants to remember what Port Townsend was like when her grandparents were young, she doesn't have to visit the… Continue reading

Sequim: Petco, Starbucks eye locations

SEQUIM -- Two more national chains have announced their intentions to build on Sequim's chronically under-construction west side -- California-based Petco and Seattle coffee retailer… Continue reading