News
Lake Crescent highway closure set today
PORT ANGELES — U.S. Highway 101 is closed at milepost 228 near Barnes Creek to milepost 232 near…
Business
BUSINESS BRIEFS: Free labor law seminar scheduled later this month … and other items
SEQUIM — The Department of Labor & Industries will hold a free labor law seminar at 4 p.m.…
News
Group on Port Angeles bridges calls for higher fences to prevent suicides
PORT ANGELES — Every night since Monday morning, when 15-year-old Ashley Wishart flung herself off the Valley Creek…
News
NEWS BRIEFS: Monday ribbon-cutting to fete Carrie Blake Park access road … and other items
SEQUIM — A ribbon-cutting ceremony will celebrate the opening of a new access road to Carrie Blake Park…
News
Car burns on Highway 101 at Lake Crescent
PORT ANGELES — A father and daughter narrowly escaped injury in a car fire on U.S. Highway 101…
News
Mourners celebrate short life; pastor talks of choices in death of teen who jumped from bridge
SEQUIM — A montage of photos and videos depicting Ashley Ann Wishart’s abbreviated life ended Friday night with…
News
State sets preferred alternative for marbled murrelet protection
OLYMPIA — The state Board of Natural Resources has selected a preferred alternative for the long-term conservation of…
News
Clallam Bay prison easing lockdown after fight
CLALLAM BAY — Prison officials continued easing a lockdown Saturday at Clallam Bay Corrections Center after a brief…
News
Olympic Medical Center approves 2018 budget, 1 percent tax hike
PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center’s board of commissioners has approved the hospital’s 2018 operating and capital budgets,…
Life
A GROWING CONCERN: Botanical stocking stuffers that are sure to please
THIS WEEK, WE all gather here across the county for Thanksgiving.
Crime
Port Angeles man sentenced for sexual assault of minor
PORT ANGELES — Charles Jason Butcher of Port Angeles has been sentenced to more than eight years in…
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Oil being consumed at gluttonous rates with few options
In reference to the [Nov. 1] letter to the editor titled “Oil challenges.”
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Time to rescind or enforce state law about mufflers
I am sure a lot of people locally do not know about or just ignore the following Revised…
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Halloween costumes demeans honorable hobos
Consider the following response to “What was the most interesting Halloween costume you ever saw?” in “Speaking Out,”…
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Port Angeles planning for trail ‘problem’ that doesn’t exist
On Oct. 13, the Peninsula Daily News ran an article on the Olympic Discovery Trail open house [“Homeowners…
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Drivers need to be more cautious at crosswalks
On Nov. 9, I saw two schoolchildren almost hit trying to cross the street in Bremerton.
Letters to the Editor
LETTER: Newspaper should stop reporting on suicides
Rarely have I felt it necessary to write you [the Peninsula Daily News].