PORT TOWNSEND -- After more than a year of planning, the bell finally tolls for restoration and seismic retrofit work on Jefferson County's historic courthouse… Continue reading
QUILCENE -- Construction of a Jefferson County Public Utility District water system in the U.S. Highway 101 commercial core is expected to begin in mid-June,… Continue reading
PORT HADLOCK -- Conversion of the Naval Magazine Indian Island ammunition wharf for maintenance of Navy submarines is expected to be completed this summer, the… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Erica Delma and Molly Fahrenschon have high hopes for the day when a new and improved Pope Marine Park attracts more families… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Robert Pontius of Beaver Valley has filed as a Republican candidate for Jefferson County commissioner in District 3. Pontius, who registered as… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- A split City Council approved the first reading on Monday night of an ordinance repealing the city's short-lived mandatory bicycle helmet law.… Continue reading
CHIMACUM -- The Chimacum School Board voted unanimously to replace a bus that the district's insurance risk pool declared wrecked in a March 29 crash… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- With city leaders looking at repealing a controverisal bicycle helmet ordinance before its wheels begin to turn, firefighters and police are offering… Continue reading
CHIMACUM -- The School Board on Wednesday night quietly accepted the resignation of Chimacum High School principal Rex Whipple, who faces an August trial in… Continue reading
PORT HADLOCK -- The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office remains neutral on establishing a Tri-Area no-shooting zone and voters will have to sign petitions to get… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- City officials are floating the idea of raising Port Townsend public pool user fees after Port Townsend School District officials proposed doubling… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The City Council voted Thursday night to revisit the city's controversial bicycle helmet law passed by a split vote late last year.… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Olympic Bus Lines rolls back into Port Townsend today to fill the transportation void left when Pennco Transportation shut down operations almost… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- The president of embattled Security Services Northwest vowed to abide by the county's stop work order, which forbids shooting on the site,… Continue reading
MATS MATS BAY -- The Mats Mats rock quarry is one of two sites being evaluated for a graving yard to construct state Highway 520… Continue reading
CHIMACUM -- Rex Whipple, the Chimacum High School principal facing an August trial in Superior Court on allegations he secretly shot videos of a 15-year-old… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Jefferson County building and law-enforcement officials have stepped up their enforcement of the stop-work order issued last year on Security Services Northwest's… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Port Townsend Paper Corp.'s parent company has met a multimillion-dollar interest payment to its creditors after steps were taken to access $5… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- Port of Port Townsend commissioners approved a one-year lease with Discovery Bay Shellfish Inc. for commercial use of Port of Port Townsend… Continue reading
PORT TOWNSEND -- A booming regional shellfish industry has Coast Seafood Co. looking to expand its operation on Quilcene Bay and perhaps to Port Townsend,… Continue reading