Paul Gottlieb

Skip Escoffon

Heavy metal in Port Angeles: Pile driving for new sewage pump station shakes the earth on downtown’s west side

PORT ANGELES — Metal will clang and the earth will tremble in the western downtown core for another two weeks. The pile-driving preparatory to construction… Continue reading

Skip Escoffon

Port of Port Angeles gets $400,000 to update its five-year master plan

PORT ANGELES — A $400,000 federal Department of Transportation grant was awarded last week to the Port of Port Angeles to update a five-year master… Continue reading

Carlsborg man withdraws offer to buy former Fairview School in Port Angeles, turn it into pot facility

PORT ANGELES — A Carlsborg man has withdrawn his offer to purchase the former Fairview School site and turn it into a pot-growing and -processing… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles official: Trees obstructing airport to stay for some time, but commercial airline would be unfazed

PORT ANGELES — Trees in a city park that obstruct aircraft landings at William R. Fairchild International Airport will remain standing — and growing —… Continue reading

Carlsborg man withdraws offer to buy former Fairview School in Port Angeles, turn it into pot facility

PORT ANGELES — A Carlsborg man has withdrawn his offer to purchase the former Fairview School site and turn it into a pot-growing and -processing… Continue reading

This rendering by Stephanie Bower Architectural Illustration

Opportunity Fund Advisory Board suggests $285,952 for Port Angeles waterfront development project

PORT ANGELES — The city’s ambitious downtown waterfront development project would receive a six-figure boost under a recommendation from the Clallam County Opportunity Fund Advisory… Continue reading

This rendering by Stephanie Bower Architectural Illustration
Mary Beth Wegener

Port Angeles wrestles with projected $250,000 deficit — corrected

EDITOR'S NOTE: Feiro Marine Life Center's 2014 budget has been corrected in this report. PORT ANGELES — The City Council is wrestling with a projected… Continue reading

Mary Beth Wegener
Mary Beth Wegener

Port Angeles wrestles with projected $250,000 deficit — corrected

EDITOR'S NOTE: Feiro Marine Life Center's 2014 budget has been corrected in this report. PORT ANGELES — The City Council is wrestling with a projected… Continue reading

Mary Beth Wegener
Mary Beth Wegener

Port Angeles wrestles with projected $250,000 deficit

PORT ANGELES — The City Council is wrestling with a projected $250,000 deficit in 2016 by identifying the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, the Feiro Marine… Continue reading

Mary Beth Wegener
The Olympic Mountains and Hurricane Ridge Road are seen amid melting snow. — Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News ()

Report: Olympic National Park visitation up by 10 percent in 2014 for $263 million boost to area economy (corrected)

<EDITOR'S NOTE The amount of money contributed by park visitors in 2014 has been corrected in the first paragraph and the headline. PORT ANGELES —… Continue reading

The Olympic Mountains and Hurricane Ridge Road are seen amid melting snow. — Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News ()
The Olympic Mountains and Hurricane Ridge Road are seen amid melting snow. — Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News ()

Report: Olympic National Park visitation up by 10 percent in 2014 for $263 million boost to area economy (corrected)

<EDITOR'S NOTE The amount of money contributed by park visitors in 2014 has been corrected in the first paragraph and the headline. PORT ANGELES —… Continue reading

The Olympic Mountains and Hurricane Ridge Road are seen amid melting snow. — Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News ()

Port Angeles City Council approves search for grant for suicide-prevention fences

PORT ANGELES — City Councilwoman Cherie Kidd has received consent from her council colleagues to seek grant funding for suicide-prevention barriers on the Eighth Street… Continue reading

The Olympic Mountains and Hurricane Ridge Road are seen amid melting snow. (Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News)

Report: Olympic National Park visitation up by 10 percent in 2014 for $2.6 million boost to area economy

PORT ANGELES — Olympic National Park saw 3.2 million visitors in 2014 — a 10 percent increase over 2013 — who contributed $2.6 million to… Continue reading

The Olympic Mountains and Hurricane Ridge Road are seen amid melting snow. (Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles City Council approves search for grant for suicide-prevention fences

PORT ANGELES — City Councilwoman Cherie Kidd has received consent from her council colleagues to seek grant funding for suicide-prevention barriers on the Eighth Street… Continue reading

Civil lawsuit delays sale of former Port Angeles school for pot facility

PORT ANGELES — Plans by a Carlsborg resident to turn the shuttered Fairview Elementary School into a marijuana growing and processing facility have been delayed… Continue reading

Washington state Auditor Troy Kelley leaves the Federal Courthouse in Tacoma last Thursday after pleading not guilty to a federal grand jury indictment on charges of filing false tax returns

Peninsula’s 3 state lawmakers agree state Auditor Troy Kelley should resign

OLYMPIA — The North Olympic Peninsula’s 24th District legislators have joined the growing call for first-term state Auditor Troy Kelley to resign in light of… Continue reading

Washington state Auditor Troy Kelley leaves the Federal Courthouse in Tacoma last Thursday after pleading not guilty to a federal grand jury indictment on charges of filing false tax returns
Washington state Auditor Troy Kelley leaves the Federal Courthouse in Tacoma last Thursday after pleading not guilty to a federal grand jury indictment on charges of filing false tax returns

Peninsula’s 3 state lawmakers agree state Auditor Troy Kelley should resign

OLYMPIA — The North Olympic Peninsula’s 24th District legislators have joined the growing call for first-term state Auditor Troy Kelley to resign in light of… Continue reading

Washington state Auditor Troy Kelley leaves the Federal Courthouse in Tacoma last Thursday after pleading not guilty to a federal grand jury indictment on charges of filing false tax returns

Port Angeles City Council to weigh grant funding for suicide barriers on bridges during Tuesday meeting

PORT ANGELES — City Council members will consider giving Councilwoman Cherie Kidd the go-ahead to seek grant funding for suicide barriers on the Eighth Street… Continue reading

Man killed, another sent to hospital when two pickup trucks collide near Quilcene

QUILCENE — A collision of two pickup trucks on Center Road took the life of a Toandos Peninsula man and sent a Quilcene man to… Continue reading

Nippon exceeds one-hour carbon monoxide limits 3 times; ORCAA says incidents did not affect air quality

PORT ANGELES — Nippon Paper Industries USA’s new biomass boiler exceeded one-hour carbon monoxide limits twice Feb. 27 and once Feb. 28, without compromising the… Continue reading