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Port of Port Angeles in talks with airline for passenger service

Port of Port Angeles in talks with airline for passenger service

Port of Port Angeles officials are discussing proposal terms with an airline that could offer passenger flights to and from Boeing Field… Continue reading

Port of Port Angeles in talks with airline for passenger service

$100,000 bond set for teen accused of bringing gun to Port Angeles school

Bond of $100,000 was set Monday for a 16-year-old boy who allegedly brought an unloaded handgun and a gun magazine with one… Continue reading

Port Angeles teen pleads not guilty to gun-related charges

A 16-year-old boy pleaded not guilty to three gun-related charges Thursday in Clallam County Juvenile Court. Judge Christopher Melly set Feb. 2… Continue reading

Port Angeles, BMX track operator at odds over facility

Port Angeles, BMX track operator at odds over facility

The Port Angeles BMX Track in city-owned Lincoln Park should be run by a nonprofit corporation with a governing board instead of… Continue reading

Port Angeles, BMX track operator at odds over facility
Trial delayed for suspect accused of killing Forks toddler

Trial delayed for suspect accused of killing Forks toddler

The mid-January trial of a Forks woman accused of killing 2½-year-old Isaac Ward on Nov. 9 has been delayed while investigators continue… Continue reading

Trial delayed for suspect accused of killing Forks toddler

Port Angeles student accused of bringing gun to school

A Port Angeles High School student will appear in juvenile court Monday after authorities said they found a .32-caliber handgun in his… Continue reading

Public comment to be taken on proposed Port Angeles school levy

Public comment to be taken on proposed Port Angeles school levy

City Council members had to stifle their opinions last week following a presentation on a proposed Feb. 14 Port Angeles School District… Continue reading

Public comment to be taken on proposed Port Angeles school levy
Boy killed in wreck at Lake Crescent; four others injured when tree strikes SUV

Boy killed in wreck at Lake Crescent; four others injured when tree strikes SUV

A 5-year-old boy died New Year’s Day and four other people believed to be from the same Federal Way family were seriously… Continue reading

Boy killed in wreck at Lake Crescent; four others injured when tree strikes SUV
Port Angeles parents welcome Peninsula’s first baby of 2017

Port Angeles parents welcome Peninsula’s first baby of 2017

All 20 inches of Jason Michael Rutherford Jr. rang in the new year early Sunday morning as the first baby born in… Continue reading

Port Angeles parents welcome Peninsula’s first baby of 2017
Dozens brave frigid air and water in polar plunges across North Olympic Peninsula

Dozens brave frigid air and water in polar plunges across North Olympic Peninsula

Dozens of North Olympic Peninsula residents shocked their way into 2017 by madly rushing into frigid waters Sunday in polar bear plunges… Continue reading

Dozens brave frigid air and water in polar plunges across North Olympic Peninsula

Water flow restored to Port Angeles homes while repairs mulled

Running, potable water was restored to seven households Thursday morning while city officials prepared to replace a malfunctioning stormwater pipe and repair… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News An excavator piles brush pulled from the banks of Peabody Creek near Ninth Street in Port Angeles on Wednesday to gain access to a broken water main beneath the creek bed.

Port Angeles water line repairs to cost $55,000

A cast-iron potable water main ruptured Tuesday night, exposing a leak in a stormwater pipe below it and prompting City Manager Dan… Continue reading

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News An excavator piles brush pulled from the banks of Peabody Creek near Ninth Street in Port Angeles on Wednesday to gain access to a broken water main beneath the creek bed.
Massive injuries suffered by Federal Way family hit by falling tree near Lake Crescent

Massive injuries suffered by Federal Way family hit by falling tree near Lake Crescent

Bella’s back is broken. Her grandfather’s back is broken. Her grandmother was in a coma Tuesday. Her cousin is dead. It looks… Continue reading

Massive injuries suffered by Federal Way family hit by falling tree near Lake Crescent
Four remain hospitalized after fatal wreck at Lake Crescent

Four remain hospitalized after fatal wreck at Lake Crescent

Four of five occupants of an SUV that was crushed by a falling tree as it traveled along Lake Crescent on New… Continue reading

Four remain hospitalized after fatal wreck at Lake Crescent
An aerial photo shows the wreckage of Bernhoft’s Cessna 182 in a wooded area near Quilcene. (KOMO-News)

Two Sequim residents and two children killed in plane crash

Federal officials on Saturday scoured a Thorndyke Creek ravine where an eyewitness reported that a small aircraft “just dropped from the sky” Thursday… Continue reading

An aerial photo shows the wreckage of Bernhoft’s Cessna 182 in a wooded area near Quilcene. (KOMO-News)

LETTER: Obama accomplished a great many things

In response to Clallam County Republican Party Chairman Dick Pilling’s sarcastic, smarty-pants Dec. 4 letter about the “accomplishments” of President Barack Obama [“Thanks, Obama”], the… Continue reading

Prosecutors await test results in Port Angeles pedestrian death

The Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is awaiting DNA test results on a trail of blood drops leading to the body of… Continue reading

Federal investigators headed to Dabob Bay crash site

A team from the National Transportation Safety Board was headed this afternoon to the Dabob Bay-area site of a plane crash where… Continue reading

Autopsy: 2½-year-old boy died of blunt-force trauma to the head

Autopsy: 2½-year-old boy died of blunt-force trauma to the head

A 2½-year-old boy allegedly killed last month by a Forks woman who was caring for him died of blunt-force trauma to the… Continue reading

Autopsy: 2½-year-old boy died of blunt-force trauma to the head

Fake tree key to makeover: Method commonly used to disguise cell towers, consultant says

Disguising a radio-cellphone tower as a 150-foot Douglas fir is just one route the wireless industry takes these days to mollify concerns over… Continue reading