Sequim: Opposition group files briefs in King, Thurston counties against proposed shopping centers

SEQUIM -- Legal wranglings continue to complicate plans to bring two large-scale retail developments into the city's west side. Citizens group Sequim First on Aug.… Continue reading

Peninsula: Local West Nile virus link still under study

PORT ANGELES -- A possible link between the West Nile virus and a Seattle-area girl's camping trips appears "up in the air right now," says… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Conference center lawsuit dropped

PORT ANGELES -- In a surprise move, the latest legal challenge against the proposed Oak Street hotel and conference center has been dropped by Best… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Parties to discuss graving yard options

PORT ANGELES -- Lower Elwha Klallam tribal and state officials will meet today to discuss a new construction plan to protect a Native American burial… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Still no charges in Aldrich’s grocery fire

The Police Department's investigation into the Aug. 4 Aldrich's grocery fire should be wrapping up soon. Police Chief Kristen Anderson said Tuesday that two of… Continue reading

Sequim: Police probe burglary spree

SEQUIM -- Police are investigating a spree of burglaries that took place between Thursday night and Saturday morning along Washington Street. Four businesses were broken… Continue reading

Divers solve another mystery in deep, blue Lake Crescent

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK -- Another secret of Lake Crescent was revealed last weekend when volunteer divers located a car that plunged into the deep, blue… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Digging of 200,000 cubic foot graving yard awaits archeological plan

PORT ANGELES -- Excavation on the 22.4-acre Hood Canal Bridge graving yard site remains postponed until an archeological plan is developed. The discovery of Native… Continue reading

Port Townsend woman offers safe haven, lessons in living for local teens

PORT TOWNSEND -- It is the first day of school, and Julia Cochrane is up and moving early at her house at the foot of… Continue reading

Sequim Bay closed to shellfishing

The state Department of Health has closed Sequim Bay to all shellfishing due to elevated levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin found in the water.… Continue reading

Some Peninsula school districts ready to start this week

The end of the Labor Day weekend signals the return of students to classrooms across the North Olympic Peninsula. Port Townsend and Brinnon start their… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Burning of feast table resurrects forgotten tribal ceremony

PORT ANGELES -- About 50 invited guests gathered on the Lower Elwha Klallam Reservation on Saturday to witness a ceremony that included setting a feast… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Tribe buoyed by learning where ancestors were buried — but what’s next for graving yard project?

PORT ANGELES -- Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members say their minds are more at ease after knowing where their ancestors were buried along the Port… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Messages of hope, survival over AIDS

PORT TOWNSEND -- Jim Monteith has spoken to high school students and community groups about his continuing struggle with AIDS. On Sunday, he brought the… Continue reading

Volunteers to revive Quilcene logging show

QUILCENE -- The smell of sawdust, the ring of axes and the rasp of crosscut saws will once again pervade the streets of a town… Continue reading

Clallam: Fund-raising brisk for county commissioner rivals

Candidates for District 1 Clallam County commissioner have collected more than $26,000 to bolster their campaigns with about months left before the general election. Steve… Continue reading

Clallam: Home electricity rates may hold the line this fall

PORT ANGELES -- Wholesale power rates will increase by 2.2 percent Oct. 1, the Bonneville Power Administration announced Friday. But the rate increase may be… Continue reading

Jefferson: Democrats play down candidate’s business feud

BRINNON -- Jefferson County political leaders aren't paying much attention to the fight between a county commissioner candidate and his former business partner that erupted… Continue reading

Jefferson: GOP county commissioner candidate’s fund-raising outpaces Demo rivals”

The lone Republican candidate for the 3rd District Jefferson County commissioner position has collected more money than the combined totals of two Democrats trying to… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Three city officials return from extended Olympic National Park trip into backcountry

PORT ANGELES -- Three city officials who became lost in Olympic National Park's backcountry last week hiked out on a dusty trail Friday afternoon in… Continue reading