Jeremy Schwartz

Port Angeles council OKs funds for park project

PORT ANGELES — Final design work on a city park proposed for western downtown can move forward now that the City Council has approved more… Continue reading

Two Sequim-area residents plead guilty in theft attempt

PORT ANGELES — Two Sequim-area residents pleaded guilty to one count each of first-degree theft after reportedly hatching a plan to rob a woman of… Continue reading

EYE ON OLYMPIA: Derelict vessel bill passes state House

OLYMPIA — The state Department of Natural Resources could have a new set of tools to deal with derelict vessels after a bill supported by… Continue reading

State House passes Tharinger’s older-population study bill

OLYMPIA — A bill that would establish a joint House and Senate committee to study the needs of a growing 65-and-older population has been passed… Continue reading

Port Angeles public utility worker Bob Williams climbs an electrical transformer before it is hauled away from the Civic Field power substation Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Damaged electrical transformer removed from Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — An electrical transformer weighing 41½ tons that was shocked out of commission by a July lightning strike has been removed while city… Continue reading

Port Angeles public utility worker Bob Williams climbs an electrical transformer before it is hauled away from the Civic Field power substation Friday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
State Rep. Steve Tharinger

Tharinger backs bill to allow counties to raise sales tax without public vote

OLYMPIA — County governments across the state would be able to raise sales taxes to fund public safety without a vote of the people under… Continue reading

State Rep. Steve Tharinger

Port Angeles man pleads not guilty to theft, burglary

PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man who police said was walking through a west Port Angeles neighborhood with a wheelbarrow full of stolen property… Continue reading

A truck makes its way across the Lauridsen Boulevard bridge over Peabody Creek in Port Angeles on Wednesday as city officials consider replacement of the structure. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Port Angeles OKs more funds for boulevard plan [**Corrected**]

PORT ANGELES — The city will spend an additional $134,217 on the Lauridsen Boulevard bridge replacement project, slated to begin later this year, bringing the… Continue reading

A truck makes its way across the Lauridsen Boulevard bridge over Peabody Creek in Port Angeles on Wednesday as city officials consider replacement of the structure. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

‘Band-Aid’ seawall likely to stay below failing landfill bluff in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Immediate efforts to deal with a failing bluff abutting Port Angeles’ landfill will not include the removal of a seawall at its… Continue reading

Forks Library to close for 3 days before renovations

FORKS — The Forks Library will be closed for three days later this month as staff members prepare to move to a temporary location before… Continue reading

EYE ON OLYMPIA: Bills heading to Senate, House votes

OLYMPIA — The North Olympic Peninsula’s three legislators have had successes and setbacks so far this legislative as both the State Senate and House of… Continue reading

Olympic National Park tops for state visits, report shows

PORT ANGELES — A recently released report compiling national park visitor and spending data from 2011 shows Olympic National Park to be the most visited… Continue reading

Port Angeles citizen nabs man carting stolen goods in wheelbarrow

PORT ANGELES — A 23-year-old Port Angeles man was in the Clallam County jail Saturday after he was seen transporting what Port Angeles police say… Continue reading

Texas man gets 6 years for Port Angeles robbery

PORT ANGELES — A 58-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to slightly more than six years in prison for taking a Port Angeles woman’s car… Continue reading

Phillip Curtis Shelly Clallam County Sheriff's Office

Wanted Port Angeles sex offender caught in Seattle

SEATTLE — A convicted sex offender wanted by law enforcement since he cut off his court-ordered monitoring device and left Port Angeles a month ago… Continue reading

Phillip Curtis Shelly Clallam County Sheriff's Office
A car makes its way down a newly opened section of the 200 block of North Oak Street in downtown Port Angeles on Friday. Construction crews opened the block with a temporary gravel surface after removing the original road surface and an adjoining sidewalk for sewer line replacement. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

North portion of Oak Street reopens in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The stretch of North Oak Street that had been completely closed to vehicle traffic since mid-February was reopened Friday with a temporary… Continue reading

A car makes its way down a newly opened section of the 200 block of North Oak Street in downtown Port Angeles on Friday. Construction crews opened the block with a temporary gravel surface after removing the original road surface and an adjoining sidewalk for sewer line replacement. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Phillip Curtis Shelly

Convicted Port Angeles sex offender arrested in Seattle

SEATTLE — A convicted sex offender wanted by law enforcement ever since he cut off his court-ordered monitoring device a month ago in Port Angeles… Continue reading

Phillip Curtis Shelly

Peninsula legislators see no immediate effect of tax initiative ruling

OLYMPIA — Two of the three legislators representing the North Olympic Peninsula said they think a recent state Supreme Court decision striking down the state… Continue reading

Sections of floating dock that have provided temporary seasonal moorage at Port Angeles City Pier sit in storage at Ediz Hook on Thursday in varying states of age-related decay. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Port Angeles retiring deteriorating wooden floats

PORT ANGELES — Movable docks that provided seasonal moorage space for boats on the south side of City Pier will not be reinstalled this year,… Continue reading

Sections of floating dock that have provided temporary seasonal moorage at Port Angeles City Pier sit in storage at Ediz Hook on Thursday in varying states of age-related decay. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Donations help Forks Library remodel effort reach goal

FORKS — The future of the Forks Library is now in the hands of the North Olympic Library System board after the final $7,000 in… Continue reading