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Fans rotated guarding places in line for each other throughout the night Tuesday and Wednesday as they waited to buy tickets today to the early Friday morning showing of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at the Lincoln Theater.

The Washington state Transportation Department says a 42-year-old employee died Thursday after he was hit by a falling tree limb while working to clear a slide on U.S. Highway 101 near Port Angeles.

Cooperation with neighboring emergency agencies is key for the Port Angeles Fire Department to cover its area well, Fire Chief Dan McKeen told a business group Tuesday.

When Victoria McDonald returned to Port Angeles from Fitchburg, Mass., her plan was to visit friends and family members, help out in the Dazzled by Twilight store she once managed -- and at some point on Wednesday night stake out her place as first in line to get tickets to the first showing of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." More Entertainment News ...

Flooding caused by a backed-up Tumwater Creek inundated the Petit Oil Co. depot at 638 Marine Drive overnight.

Real estate brokerage and the business of buying and selling real estate is in the midst of extraordinary changes not seen in the last three decades of business as usual. Business models of the past are quickly becoming irrelevant as consumers shift their buying habits. Brokers and agents who learned to become automatons of business, using traditional methods of marketing and sales are suddenly finding themselves on the sidelines. The top producers of yesteryear are learning humility in obscurity.

A symbol of harmony, a 14-foot-tall rendition of Native American art with Bear Man, Raven and Owl, will be erected in time for the celebration of the release of the movie based on the book, New Moon.

After a third round of ballot counting on Monday, the race for a Port of Port Angeles commission seat appears headed toward a recount as incumbent and board president John Calhoun charged back from a 196-vote deficit to take a nine-vote lead in a neck-and-neck battle with Brad Collins.

Two people were booked into the Clallam County jail Thursday after detectives said they found 103 marijuana plants and some methamphetamine in a home east of Port Angeles.

Sequim Police Officer Mike Hill with his late partner Titus, who died Monday. -- Photo courtesy of Sequim Police Department.

A Port Angeles police dog helped his handler catch a man who tried to flee after his accomplice broke a downtown Port Angeles window last weekend.

The front gate at the end of Ediz Hook will open to the public at 9:30 a.m. Parking is limited and ride sharing is strongly recommended.

For Edna Petersen's campaign, "every vote counts" has become more than just a commonly used phrase during elections, it is the essence of a last-ditch strategy to put the local business owner back on the Port Angeles City Council.

The city of Port Angeles is working its way through the 85 recommendations made by the American Institute of Architects to determine which ones are feasible to undertake now and which should be put into long-term plans, city officials said Monday.

"A ONE-MAN Guitar Festival" takes place at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., at 7:30 p.m. tonight.

Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES - Tickets go on sale this weekend for all four events at the Festival of Trees in Port Angeles, one of the most popular and festive holiday season events on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Sarah Methner said she is ready to go to work after she won 64.07 percent, or 3,277, of the votes for the four-year Port Angeles School District No.

The contest for Port of Port Angeles commissioner -- the only countywide race on the Clallam County ballot -- is too close to call.

Federal and state aviation officials are advising pilots that airspace restrictions for the Winter Olympics in British Columbia will extend into northwestern Washington.

Life-saving devices are riding in patrol cars and awaiting emergencies in both Sequim and Port Angeles, thanks to a $9,600 investment by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.