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Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd announces in a Port Angeles High School classroom that Harrison Day

Port Angeles names first ‘Mayor for a Day’

PORT ANGELES — An essay discussing why the city's mayoralty is important — penned during a class assignment a few weeks ago — has netted… Continue reading

Port Angeles Mayor Cherie Kidd announces in a Port Angeles High School classroom that Harrison Day

Tribal police shoot dogs suspected in alpaca attacks

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction, published Dec. 16, 2012: Officers with the Lower Elwha Police Department shot and killed three… Continue reading

Port Angeles councilwoman cites overtime concerns

PORT ANGELES — The city’s 2013 budget has been approved, but one city councilwoman said she still has issues with the increase in overtime staffing… Continue reading

Johnnie Montice holds the cherry-wood capsule that was made for Port Angeles' sesquicentennial time capsule.

Root beer, budget go into Port Angeles time capsule

PORT ANGELES — A two-drawer, roughly knee-high cabinet preserving how the city of Port Angeles spent its 150th birthday year will be installed during a… Continue reading

Johnnie Montice holds the cherry-wood capsule that was made for Port Angeles' sesquicentennial time capsule.

Alleged wrong-way driver can return to California, judge says

PORT ANGELES — The California man arrested last week after allegedly driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 101 near Forks can be released from… Continue reading

Second theft suspect arrested in Sequim

SEQUIM — A second Sequim-area resident has been arrested in a robbery reported at a Clallam County park just east of Sequim last week. Clallam… Continue reading

Emblem3 members

Sequim-born Emblem3 one step closer to ‘X Factor’ millions — and already might have a recording offer

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Sequim native Wesley Stromberg, one-third of the Sequim-born band Emblem3, had a pretty good 19th birthday Thursday. For one, Emblem3, made… Continue reading

Emblem3 members

Two grants totalling $802,400 to help fund Port Angeles waterfront improvements

PORT ANGELES — City Hall planning staffers have secured two separate state grants to help fund improvements to the city’s downtown waterfront, including one that… Continue reading

Pot possession eased in Washington, but don’t take it to Victoria

PORT ANGELES — The state’s ounce-of-marijuana possession law is the first in the nation, beating Colorado’s by a month. But the federal government — which… Continue reading

Bill Angehrn of Port Angeles

Well-traveled volunteer honored by Port Angeles City Council

PORT ANGELES — Bill Angehrn, a 29-year Port Angeles resident who spends his days beating the pavement around the city dutifully picking up trash, has… Continue reading

Bill Angehrn of Port Angeles

Port Angeles City Council restores partial nonprofit funding

PORT ANGELES — The roughly $124.3 million 2013 budget for Port Angeles has been approved by the City Council after more than half of the… Continue reading

State Patrol: Wrong-way driver arrested on Highway 101

FORKS — A California man has been arrested near Forks after allegedly driving the wrong way on U.S. Highway 101 and forcing a car off… Continue reading

Mario Wayne Hackney enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles in October. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Trial delayed for Port Angeles man accused in shooting

PORT ANGELES — The year 2013 will have been about a month old, at least, by the time a Port Angeles man accused of attempted… Continue reading

Mario Wayne Hackney enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles in October. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Sequim-area woman charged in robbery, set to be arraigned

SEQUIM — A Sequim-area woman has been charged in Clallam County Superior Court in connection with robberies to which investigators originally though she was merely… Continue reading

‘Bath salts’ found by law enforcement in Port Townsend for first time

PORT TOWNSEND — The presence of one the illegal drugs commonly known as “bath salts” has been confirmed for the first time in Port Townsend… Continue reading

Clallam libraries to keep same hours in 2013

PORT ANGELES — Visitors to any of the public libraries overseen by the North Olympic Library System will notice no change in hours next year… Continue reading

NEW MARIJUANA LAW: North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement clears some of the haze

NEW MARIJUANA LAW: North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement clears some of the haze

First of two parts Possession of small amounts of marijuana becomes legal in Washington on Thursday, and law enforcement agencies across the North Olympic Peninsula… Continue reading

NEW MARIJUANA LAW: North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement clears some of the haze

Phone, Web outages hit parts of East Jefferson County

PORT TOWNSEND — Internet and phone service were returning gradually to thousands of residents in Port Townsend and portions of surrounding East Jefferson County on… Continue reading

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Sequim-raised Emblem3 makes top 3 on Fox TV’s ‘The X Factor’

LOS ANGELES — The Sequim-bred band Emblem3 is another step closer to a $5 million prize after viewer votes were tallied on the band competition… Continue reading

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SunLand fire razes RV, chars two others

SunLand fire razes RV, chars two others

SEQUIM — A recreational vehicle in which a fire department spokesman said two people had been staying in the SunLand community just north of Sequim… Continue reading

SunLand fire razes RV, chars two others