Port Angeles News

A Port Angeles man accused of carving a swath of destruction through a Gales Addition neighborhood in May is expected back in Clallam County this week for a Wednesday hearing to determine his competency to stand trial.

Recent heavy rain strained the Port Angeles stormwater system to the point that 6 million gallons of combined rain water and raw sewage were pumped into Port Angeles Harbor.

The director of the Feiro Marine Life Center is awaiting analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to find out what killed a sea lion found last week on Ediz Hook.

She fought the law, and she won. Leanne Potts, a Sequim woman ticketed for entering Olympic National Park during the federal government shutdown last October, had her $125 fine erased by a federal judge this week.

A Port Angeles woman has been convicted by a Clallam County District Court jury this week of Driving Under the Influence and faces a mandatory sentence of at least 45 days in jail.

City police Thursday continued to look for an attempted burglary suspect who got away in south Port Angeles on Wednesday afternoon.

High school poetry will be celebrated at an April 10 Poetry Slam, and entries are being accepted now.

The musical story starts out stern and dark, according to the Belarusian pianist, but from there, we're swept up and away.

High water flows caused by current storms have postponed blasting at what's left of Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River, Olympic National Park officials said Thursday.

One man was arrested and two sentenced in connection with Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team cases involving methamphetamine drugs.

The city has inked an agreement and work plan with the Port Angeles Downtown Association that specifies how a $20,000 business and occupation tax contribution from the city will be spent this year.

Preparation for the show must go on. But where? The Port Angeles Light Opera Association, the 33-year-old nonprofit theater company known as PALOA, is about to put its center up for sale.

Traffic will be detoured around the Lauridsen Boulevard bridge area Friday for an improvement near the $4.5 million span under construction now.

Virginia and Tom Leinart look at a box they have built to enclose the electric meter at their home on March 5, 2014 in Port Angeles, Wash.

Clallam County has received a dual-purpose grant from the state Department of Ecology to pave the muddy recycle drop-box area at the Blue Mountain Transfer Station and to develop the Master Gardeners' organics program.

Two Coast Guard petty officers were lauded by Clallam County officials Tuesday for being named 2013 enlisted persons of the year.

Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES - The 10th annual International Women's Day celebration, an evening of homemade soups, bread, cookies, wine and conversation, is open to the public at Olympic Cellars on Wednesday.

The Port Angeles High School Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps was the overall winner for the Northwest Drill & Rifle Meet at Bethel High School last weekend.

Gordy's Pizza & Pasta owner Randy Sexton is anticipating a business-as-usual Wednesday evening after Fox TV representatives assured him he won't see a rerun of last Wednesday's deluge of calls from "American Idol" fans.

Ken O'Hollaren, interim Port of Port Angeles executive director, was roundly praised at a special port commission meeting Tuesday at which public feedback was sought on hiring him to the permanent executive director position.