Chris McDaniel

Rendering of Olympic Medical Center’s new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles.

Officials break ground for Olympic Medical Center’s new office building in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A 42,000-square-foot medical office building under construction on the Olympic Medical Center campus will attract doctors to Clallam County, Eric Lewis, the… Continue reading

Rendering of Olympic Medical Center’s new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles.
Rendering of Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles.

Officials break ground for Olympic Medical Center’s new office building in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A 42,000-square-foot medical office building under construction on the Olympic Medical Center campus will attract doctors to Clallam County, Eric Lewis, the… Continue reading

Rendering of Olympic Medical Center's new medical office building at Race and Georgiana streets in Port Angeles.
Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to Stevens News Network anchors Morgan Mitchell

Gov. Inslee underscores need for more public school funding to keep state a major player in world economy

PORT ANGELES — Giving public school students the resources they need to excel is essential to the state's continued presence as a prominent member of… Continue reading

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to Stevens News Network anchors Morgan Mitchell
Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Stevens Middle School News Network Director Nacia Bohman

Governor highlights successes at Port Angeles’ Stevens Middle School in live interview with students

PORT ANGELES — The student film crew of Stevens News Network hosted Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday for a live school-wide presentation. The interview at… Continue reading

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Stevens Middle School News Network Director Nacia Bohman

Sequim eyes plan to get ahead of state impact fee legislation; ordinance is set for approval Sept. 28

SEQUIM — The city of Sequim is considering an ordinance that would put the city ahead of state legislation mandating an 18-month deferral of impact… Continue reading

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Stevens Middle School News Network Director Nacia Bohman

Governor highlights successes at Port Angeles’ Stevens Middle School in live interview with students

PORT ANGELES — The student film crew of Stevens News Network hosted Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday for a live school-wide presentation. The interview at… Continue reading

Gov. Jay Inslee speaks with Stevens Middle School News Network Director Nacia Bohman
A train crosses the Dungeness River Railroad Bridge in this undated photo from the early 1980s. The line was abandoned in 1985

Dungeness River Festival later this month in Sequim to commemorate bridge’s 100th (wtih corrected schedule)

EDITOR'S NOTE — The schedule for the festival has been corrected. SEQUIM — Various events will kick-off the 16th annual Dungeness River Festival next Friday,… Continue reading

A train crosses the Dungeness River Railroad Bridge in this undated photo from the early 1980s. The line was abandoned in 1985
A train crosses the Dungeness River Railroad Bridge in this undated photo from the early 1980s. The line was abandoned in 1985

CORRECTED — Dungeness River Festival later this month in Sequim to commemorate bridge’s 100th

EDITOR'S NOTE — The schedule for the festival has been corrected. SEQUIM — Various events will kick-off the 16th annual Dungeness River Festival next Friday,… Continue reading

A train crosses the Dungeness River Railroad Bridge in this undated photo from the early 1980s. The line was abandoned in 1985
A new ordinance passed by the city of Sequim requires the business signs seen here Wednesday afternoon on South Sequim Avenue to be removed and replaced with a sign approved by the Department of Transportation. — Chris McDaniel/Peninsula Daily News

After Sequim adopts new ordinance, businesses must pay to be part of signs

SEQUIM — The city has adopted an ordinance to bring signs directing motorists on South Sequim Avenue to local businesses into compliance with state law,… Continue reading

A new ordinance passed by the city of Sequim requires the business signs seen here Wednesday afternoon on South Sequim Avenue to be removed and replaced with a sign approved by the Department of Transportation. — Chris McDaniel/Peninsula Daily News
A new ordinance passed by the city of Sequim requires the business signs seen here Wednesday afternoon on South Sequim Avenue to be removed and replaced with a sign approved by the Department of Transportation. — Chris McDaniel/Peninsula Daily News

After Sequim adopts new ordinance, businesses must pay to be part of signs

SEQUIM — The city has adopted an ordinance to bring signs directing motorists on South Sequim Avenue to local businesses into compliance with state law,… Continue reading

A new ordinance passed by the city of Sequim requires the business signs seen here Wednesday afternoon on South Sequim Avenue to be removed and replaced with a sign approved by the Department of Transportation. — Chris McDaniel/Peninsula Daily News
An EA-18G Growler assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129 lands on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island's Ault Field. U.S. Navy

Sequim City Council hears complaints about Navy aircraft noise

SEQUIM — A Blyn-area couple said they thought they had been targeted by the Navy for complaining too frequently about noise generated by EA-18G Growler… Continue reading

An EA-18G Growler assigned to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129 lands on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island's Ault Field. U.S. Navy
The auto/passenger ferry MV Coho approches Port Angeles on its return trip from Victoria in this March 2011 file photo. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Victoria’s Coho ferry dock to be reconstructed starting in October; ferry service to Port Angeles to halt for eight weeks starting in January

VICTORIA — Work to replace the aging dock serving the Black Ball Ferry Line in Victoria Harbour is slated to begin Oct. 13. An eight-week… Continue reading

The auto/passenger ferry MV Coho approches Port Angeles on its return trip from Victoria in this March 2011 file photo. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Sarah Lovejoy

Port Angeles center connects parents of autistic children on North Olympic Peninsula with services

PORT ANGELES — Helping the parents or guardians of autistic children on the North Olympic Peninsula find the resources they need is all in a… Continue reading

Sarah Lovejoy
Scott A. Capestany

‘The Rainforest’ TV pilot set to begin filming on Peninsula later this month; Blyn launch party gathers creator, actors

BLYN — Filming of a television pilot “The Rainforest” is expected to begin at several North Olympic Peninsula locations later this month. Several cast members… Continue reading

Scott A. Capestany
Scott A. Capestany

‘The Rainforest’ TV pilot set to begin filming on Peninsula later this month; Blyn launch party gathers creator, actors

BLYN — Filming of a television pilot “The Rainforest” is expected to begin at several North Olympic Peninsula locations later this month. Several cast members… Continue reading

Scott A. Capestany
Port Angeles High School graduate and Seattle resident Dr. Ryan Weed

Rocket science: Port Angeles High School grad experimenting with antimatter propulsion system

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles High School graduate aims to make interstellar travel a reality by making the world’s first antimatter rocket. Ryan Weed,… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School graduate and Seattle resident Dr. Ryan Weed
Scott A. Capestany

‘The Rainforest’ TV pilot set to begin filming on Peninsula later this month; Blyn launch party gathers creator, actors

BLYN — Filming of a television pilot “The Rainforest” is expected to begin at several North Olympic Peninsula locations later this month. Several cast members… Continue reading

Scott A. Capestany
Scott A. Capestany

‘The Rainforest’ TV pilot set to begin filming on Peninsula later this month; Blyn launch party gathers creator, actors

BLYN — Filming of a television pilot “The Rainforest” is expected to begin at several North Olympic Peninsula locations later this month. Several cast members… Continue reading

Scott A. Capestany
A memorial commemorating the victims of 9/11 has been installed in the Sequim Civic Center Community Plaza. City of Sequim

9/11 memorial unveiled at Sequim Civic Center Community Plaza

SEQUIM — A memorial commemorating the nearly 3,000 people who died during the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, 2001, is in place at the Sequim Civic… Continue reading

A memorial commemorating the victims of 9/11 has been installed in the Sequim Civic Center Community Plaza. City of Sequim
Railroad Bridge trestle replacement crews taking special measures to spare wildlife

Railroad Bridge trestle replacement crews taking special measures to spare wildlife

SEQUIM — A $1.53 million project to construct a 750-foot-trestle over the Dungeness River requires crews to navigate thick woodlands and cross the waterway without… Continue reading

Railroad Bridge trestle replacement crews taking special measures to spare wildlife