Port Angeles News

Washington State Patrol Trooper Travis Beebe will be suspended for four days following a crash on U.S. 101 near Port Angeles that investigators concluded was his fault.

Through this week, seven people filed for nine permits to grow marijuana. Five operations would be in Sequim, three in Port Angeles and one in Clallam Bay.

According to the state Department of Revenue, taxable retail sales in Clallam County jumped nearly 8.5 percent in the second quarter this year compared to last year.

NOW THAT IT'S warming up, there is no reason not to go out and enjoy live music.

A state trooper will be suspended for four days, and undergo 44 hours of driver retraining following a multiple-car crash just east of Port Angeles on Nov. 29. Trooper Travis Beebe, 39, was passing a speeding car on Highway 101, on a curve, when he crossed the center line and hit two other vehicles near Morse Creek, the State Patrol said.

As she tore away the wrap on the big package leaning against her office wall, Suzie Bennett was silent.

Deborah Kelly, who began her legal career as a civil rights lawyer in the Deep South, is ending her professional working life at the top of her game as Clallam County prosecuting attorney-coroner.

A 98-year-old Sequim woman has won a $1.4 million settlement for injuries she suffered in a motor home versus motor home wreck in May, her lawyer said.

According to Wednesday's Peninsula Daily News , Olympic Animal Sanctuary , the beleaguered dog operation in Forks, Wash., has been slapped with another lawsuit.

Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series. Day 1: Washougal to Discovery Bay About mid-morning Saturday, we started north from Washougal, Wash., to our first destination, near the Canadian border of Discovery Bay, just east of Port Angeles.

All Points Charters & Tours again is offering Christmas light tours this season.

The Port of Port Angeles officially bid farewell to Commissioner Paul McHugh on Monday at the commissioners' regular meeting, the final one of the year.

Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken will come to the Port Townsend Library, 1220 Lawrence St., for a celebration of poetry this Thursday.

It will take three or four months for the State Patrol to complete its investigation into the Nov. 29 three-vehicle wreck that involved Trooper Travis Beebe, a spokesman said Monday.

Port of Port Angeles commissioners have approved a 1.5 percent raise for non-union employees and 1.6 percent for the unionized in 2014.

The state Department of Natural Resources announced it will purchase more than 1,200 acres of private timber lands on the Olympic Peninsula and other parts of Western Washington.

The Red Crow band will alight inside the Black Diamond Community Hall for another night of contra dancing - with all ages and abilities welcome - this Saturday night.

Despite an unexpected turn of events, maestro Dewey Ehling and the Port Townsend Community Orchestra will present their holiday concert Saturday night.

Temperatures plunged into the teens and 20s across Western Washington overnight as entrenched frigid air tightened its grip on the region.

Now the State Patrol is looking for more witnesses to the incident that happened near the Morse Creek Hill on Highway 101 Friday evening.