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Peninsula tribes prepare for Paddle to Quinault

TAHOLAH — With more than twice the number of canoes expected this year than the number the Quinault tribe welcomed in 2002 as part of… Continue reading

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Joint Base Lewis-McChord Garrison Commander Col. Charles Hodges Jr. and Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd

Port Angeles Mayor Kidd to go to Army base Monday in wake of helicopter exercises over city

PORT ANGELES — The mayor wants answers from the Joint Base Lewis-McChord garrison commander about an unannounced Army helicopter training exercise that alarmed many Port… Continue reading

Joint Base Lewis-McChord Garrison Commander Col. Charles Hodges Jr. and Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd

Warrants served on two Port Angeles businesses

PORT ANGELES — City police and agents with the Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine served search warrants simultaneously at C Street… Continue reading

The MV Coho pulls away from a damaged floatplane dock in front of the Regent Hotel in Victoria on Wednesday night. CVT Two/Vancouver Island via KOMO News

Two-nation probe opens into unprecedented MV Coho crash into Victoria dock

VICTORIA — U.S. and Canadian authorities have begun an investigation into what caused the MV Coho ferry to back into a dock used to service… Continue reading

The MV Coho pulls away from a damaged floatplane dock in front of the Regent Hotel in Victoria on Wednesday night. CVT Two/Vancouver Island via KOMO News

Port Angeles officials react to loss at fish hatchery

PORT ANGELES — Scores of dead young coho salmon and steelhead trout have been buried in a hole in the ground not far from the… Continue reading

Port Angeles police, federal agents serve warrants at two businesses; no arrests made

PORT ANGELES — City police and agents with the Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine served search warrants simultaneously at C Street… Continue reading

Exposed trash protrudes in June 2012 from the top of a bluff where erosion has undercut a portion of the former Port Angeles landfill. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

State offers funds to avert bluff crumbling at Port Angeles landfill

PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Ecology will provide $3.9 million to help fund a project to keep a crumbling bluff at the city's… Continue reading

Exposed trash protrudes in June 2012 from the top of a bluff where erosion has undercut a portion of the former Port Angeles landfill. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
The MV Coho pulls away from a damaged floatplane dock in front of the Regent Hotel in Victoria on Wednesday night. CVT Two/Vancouver Island via KOMO News

Two-nation probe opens into unprecedented MV Coho crash into Victoria dock

VICTORIA — U.S. and Canadian authorities have begun an investigation into what caused the MV Coho ferry to back into a dock used to service… Continue reading

The MV Coho pulls away from a damaged floatplane dock in front of the Regent Hotel in Victoria on Wednesday night. CVT Two/Vancouver Island via KOMO News

Port Angeles police, federal agents serve warrants at two businesses; no arrests made

PORT ANGELES — City police and agents with the Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine served search warrants simultaneously at C Street… Continue reading

Port Angeles officials react to loss at fish hatchery

PORT ANGELES — Scores of dead young coho salmon and steelhead trout have been buried in a hole in the ground not far from the… Continue reading

Exposed trash protrudes in June 2012 from the top of a bluff where erosion has undercut a portion of the former Port Angeles landfill. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

State offers funds to avert bluff crumbling at Port Angeles landfill

PORT ANGELES — The state Department of Ecology will provide $3.9 million to help fund a project to keep a crumbling bluff at the city's… Continue reading

Exposed trash protrudes in June 2012 from the top of a bluff where erosion has undercut a portion of the former Port Angeles landfill. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
The MV Coho pulls away after backing into a dock in Victoria on Wednesday night. KOMO News via CIVI-Victoria

Updated: MV Coho backs into floatplane dock in Victoria harbor

VICTORIA — The MV Coho ferry backed into a floatplane dock in Victoria's Inner Harbour Wednesday night, damaging the dock and delaying the 7:30 p.m.… Continue reading

The MV Coho pulls away after backing into a dock in Victoria on Wednesday night. KOMO News via CIVI-Victoria

Some 200,000 fish reported dead at Lower Elwha fish hatchery

PORT ANGELES — At least 200,000 young fish have been found dead at the Lower Elwha Klallam fish hatchery on Stratton Road after a water… Continue reading

Avocette Johnson

Port Angeles police remind kids: No bikes at skate park

PORT ANGELES — As summer brings warmer weather and bluer skies, so too does it bring more complaints of bike-riders using the Port Angeles Skate… Continue reading

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The Lady Washington is a replica of a historic ship of the same name. This ship and the Hawaiian Chieftain will be at John Wayne Marina on Tuesday night for a several-day visit

Tall ships to dock in Sequim only during visit this week

The only opportunity on the North Olympic Peninsula for tours and sails aboard the tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain this summer will be… Continue reading

The Lady Washington is a replica of a historic ship of the same name. This ship and the Hawaiian Chieftain will be at John Wayne Marina on Tuesday night for a several-day visit

‘Golden opportunity’ for new public works official

PORT ANGELES — After at least a half-dozen moves across the United States and the world during his 27-year Navy career, Capt. Craig Fulton knows… Continue reading

Death linked to heroin leads to charges against Port Angeles man, 18

PORT ANGELES — An 18-year-old Port Angeles man has been charged with controlled substance homicide. The Clallam County Prosecutor’s Office charged David Zavodny, 18, on… Continue reading

State Sen. Jim Hargrove

Hargrove, fellow 24th District legislators tell of ‘most difficult session’

OLYMPIA — Though the North Olympic Peninsula’s elected voices under the state Capitol dome described this year’s legislative session as onerous and frustrating, all three… Continue reading

State Sen. Jim Hargrove

Not-guilty pleas for alleged Forks pizza shop burglars

PORT ANGELES — A Forks man and a LaPush woman both pleaded not guilty to charges in the burglary of $7,000 worth of cash and… Continue reading

Emergency workers load an unidentified man into an ambulance in Port Angeles on Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Passenger takes ill, ferry returns to Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — A 63-year-old man was out of Olympic Medical Center and back with his wife about 2½ hours after the onset of medical… Continue reading

Emergency workers load an unidentified man into an ambulance in Port Angeles on Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News