Port Angeles News

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE of free outdoor music on the North Olympic Peninsula begins with: PORT TOWNSEND SUMMER BAND - Today at 3 p.m. in the gazebo at Chetzemoka Park, Jackson and Blaine streets.

River Carey of Port Townsend, right, buys the first legal marijuana on the North Olympic Peninsula from budtender Jessica Bahrijczuk at Sea Change Cannabis in Discovery Bay on Friday morning.

Rural residents concerned about the potential impacts of marijuana growing operations in their neighborhood are organizing a campaign to prevent them from taking root.

The beauty of the North Olympic Peninsula calls to the artist in us all. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, which is at located at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., is urging everyone from the very young to the very old to grab their paintbrushes, pastels or watercolors and head outside to capture that beauty on canvas.

The wise owl is here to share the reggae gospel. Pato Banton and the Now Generation bring back their deep-rooted reggae sounds of positivity to the North Olympic Peninsula.

The clatter of rocks falling from excavator buckets is the sound of creation as two new beaches take form on the waterfront.

A free astronomy program with telescopes continues at Hurricane Ridge, one of the best light-restricted "dark sky" sites on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Gary Velie of the American Legion Riders rings the Liberty Bell replica as the names of Clallam County veterans who died the previous month are called out.

A Port Angeles man sought for about a day because of a felony Department of Corrections bench warrant was in the Clallam County jail Saturday.

The couple never saw it coming. Never did Christine Loewe and Ian Miller, both of Port Angeles, think that either of two bottles filled with guests' messages from their Crescent Beach wedding eight years ago and tossed into the Strait of Juan de Fuca would find their way back to the couple.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A pedestrian was killed in downtown Spokane Friday night as he attempted to cross I-90 near the Maple Street exit.

Electric and hybrid technology is the future for the automotive industry, and the Automotive Technology Program at Peninsula College just received a boost to its program that will have its students industry-ready.

When Misty Dieffenbach attended the University of Idaho, she pursued a degree in child development and family relations with an eye toward teaching preschool.

A corrections officer was following Borden when he bailed out of his car and ran into some woods.

Treatment of Victoria's sewage "will happen," British Columbia Premier Christy Clark promised members of Washington's congressional delegation in a terse letter.

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.