West End: Congressman Norm Dicks will tour Forks and LaPush today.

Dicks, D-Bremerton, will visit Forks High School from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and speak at the Forks Chamber of Commerce meeting at the Smoke… Continue reading

Clallam: County eyes cutting 18 jobs; another $600,000 cut coming

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County Administrator Dan Engelbertson has recommended laying off 13 people and leaving five positions unfilled in non-criminal justice departments to balance… Continue reading

Jefferson: Company pinpoints land for proposed “pit to pier” quarry project

Fred Hill Materials Inc. has submitted documents to Jefferson County showing the precise location where its proposed "pit to pier" quarry project could be built.… Continue reading

On the line: What Clallam County jobs are targeted

The 18 Clallam County positions recommended for elimination in the 2003 county budget, effective Jan. 1: * Assessment clerk and assessment technician in the Assessor's… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Psychiatrist testifies about drug’s effects on killer of sheriff’s deputy

PORT ANGELES -- Methamphetamine can make a person feel delusional, paranoid and easily agitated. When Thomas Martin Roberts used the drug also called methadrine, it… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Teens accused of store robbery charged as adults

PORT ANGELES -- Two 16-year-olds who allegedly used a toy gun to rob a small grocery near Lincoln Park last week have been charged with… Continue reading

Sequim: City Council hears diverse sides on shopping center issue

SEQUIM -- Debate about regional shopping centers highlighted the public comment section of Monday night's City Council meeting. Economic development leaders spoke of a golden… Continue reading

West End: Major rivers closed to fishing because of low flows

All major West End rivers have been closed to sport fishing to protect salmon prevented from moving upstream to spawn by extreme low-water conditions. In… Continue reading

Forks: Community rallying to help girl stricken with leukemia

FORKS -- Jill Henry's school photo doesn't quite say it all. Jill, an 8-year-old Forks Elementary School third-grader with strawberry-blond braided pigtails and a sweet… Continue reading

Olympic National Park: Old Elwha Resort coming down early next year

PORT ANGELES -- The remnants of the former Elwha Resort along U.S. Highway 101 west of here will come down early next year as part… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Murder trial enters second week today

The second week of the Thomas Martin Roberts murder trial begins at 10 a.m. today in Clallam County Superior Court. Western State Hospital doctors who… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Train locomotive re-emerges from decades of storage

PORT ANGELES -- A historical locomotive that carries a piece of the North Olympic Peninsula's logging history made a short journey Sunday. A 1929 "Willamette"… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Classic boats given to rowing club

PORT TOWNSEND -- Which came first, the rowers or the boats? In the case of the Rat Island Rowing Club, it was a wooden racing… Continue reading

To readers of peninsuladailynews.com

The only North Olympic Peninsula guide to fall and winter attractions and activities is in today's editions of the PDN. The fall/winter 2002-2003 North Olympic… Continue reading

Peninsula: Jurors’ trek home interrupted by fog, low tides

PORT ANGELES -- At the end of the first week of trial, the trip home for 15 Island County residents hearing Thomas Martin Roberts' murder… Continue reading

Port Angeles: Three boys arrested in connection with store robbery

PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County sheriff's deputies have arrested three Port Angeles High School students in connection with last Tuesday's armed robbery of Lincoln Park… Continue reading

Quilcene: Man killed in car-bicycle crash

QUILCENE -- A local man who rode his bicycle to town every day was killed Friday morning in an collision with an automobile on a… Continue reading

Sunday Showcase: Streamflow low in Peninsula rivers

Wildfires in the normally wet West End's rain forests and extremely low river flows in streams throughout the North Olympic Peninsula have firefighters, habitat biologists… Continue reading

To readers of peninsuladailynews.com

The only North Olympic Peninsula guide to fall and winter attractions and activities is hot off the press and coming in Monday's editions of the… Continue reading

West End: All fishing halted on Quillayute River

LAPUSH -- Extremely low Quillayute River flow levels have led the Quileute tribe to curtail net fishing for salmon until rains replenish the waterway. The… Continue reading