Port Angeles News

BECAUSE OF THE possibility of rain tonight, Concert on the Pier in Port Angeles will be held two blocks away at The Gateway, corner of Lincoln and Front streets.

Port Angeles was just named one of the nation's top ten small cities in the United States.

Detectives have begun collecting surveillance camera footage from a Port Angeles pizza shop and surrounding businesses to attempt to identify the man who robbed the Front Street store after waving a gun Monday afternoon.

She was headed to the Everett Mall, just a three-mile drive from her home. She planned to do some shopping.

A Port Angeles was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after crashing his motorcycle on U.S. Highway 101 about four miles east of Sequim on Monday.

As part of the designation of the Olympic Discovery Trail, ramp construction on the north side of East Fir Street, between Sequim Avenue and North Blake Avenue, is scheduled to begin Monday and be completed by Sept.

Salt Creek Saloon and Grill, located between Port Angeles and Joyce, closed its doors for the final time late Saturday night.

Four years after a mountain goat fatally gored a hiker in Olympic National Park, officials are looking at ways to manage mountain goats to protect public safety and the environment.

IT'S TIME AGAIN to vote for Best of the Peninsula 2014 in separate Clallam County and Jefferson County polling! For the third straight year, all voting for the scores of categories reflecting the best of services, food, shopping, recreation and people is being done online at www.peninsuladailynews.com .

The 73-foot La Rata Bastarda, still showing damage from the 2013 April Fools' Day fire, sits moored near the site of the former Peninsula Plywood mill to be towed to Canada.

Marty McClendon, William "Greybeard" McPherson and Douglas Milholland, who are running for the 6th Congressional District seat now held by Derek Kilmer, laid out those concerns at a candidate forum last week.

Cecilia Kellogg-Kilmer was shocked to find out that Olympic Medical Center plans to close its hydrotherapy pool in Port Angeles later this summer.

Bothell-based Riverside East , together with seven other Village Concepts communities throughout Washington state, was nationally recognized by the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living as a 2014 recipient of the Bronze - Commitment to Quality Award for its dedication to improving the lives of residents ... (more)

The 39-year-old Witherspoon was convicted by a Clallam County jury of second-degree robbery, residential burglary and witness tampering.

That soothing scent of lavender will fill the air of the Dungeness Valley and the streets of Sequim for the 18th year as Sequim Lavender Weekend fills the city this weekend.

NOTE: "Today" and "tonight" refer to Friday, July 18. A community sing-along and campfire, a tour of solar homes and a children's carnival are among the activities planned on the North Olympic Peninsula this weekend.

Special "Stuff the Bus" collections of donated school supplies are planned today and Saturday.

AFTER WHAT COULD charitably be referred to as a slow start in the first two weeks, the chinook bite off Port Angeles has picked up.

For the fifth consecutive summer, John Goar is leading a free astronomy program with telescopes at Hurricane Ridge, 17 miles up a paved road from Port Angeles in Olympic National Park.

Wayne King of Gardiner and Mickey Griffith of Port Townsend push a 1963 top fuel dragster to its parking place at 2013's Darlene Marihugh Memorial Cruz-In in Port Angeles.