Port Angeles News

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.

Roosevelt Elementary School was locked down for 10 minutes Tuesday morning after an unauthorized, unarmed man entered unhindered through the front door.

A Port Angeles man who shot and killed his next-door neighbor in June 2011 will be sentenced Jan. 14, a Clallam County Superior Court judge has ruled.

Now in rehab for heart problems, Marie Routh sits with her partner, Richard Dicks, and their dog, Cain.

The Peninsula Daily News reports the man left the building and was arrested by a deputy on the school campus.

Several environmental and timber groups are forming a partnership to find ways to boost timber harvests in Olympic National Forest while also improving forest health.

On Thanksgiving morning, Dewey Ehling didn't feel like himself. There had been "tipoffs," he said, such as an ache in his chest.

Initial evidence indicates that Trooper Travis Beebe, who destroyed his State Patrol car in a multivehicle crash Friday afternoon east of Port Angeles, caused the wreck, a patrol spokesman said Monday.

The time is right to draw a new map for economic development in Clallam County that could include new or different roles for the county's economic development groups, three speakers said Monday.

Editors note: There is a photo associated with this press release. The Port Angeles Food Bank was the real winner when a friendly competition among the 121 employees at Interfor's Port Angeles Sawmill led to a donation of 1,100 food items.

Before the main feature starts, people get comfortable in their oversized loveseat-style leather seats while watching a movie in the VIP Spot at Gateway Cinemas in Wenatchee.

The rumbling of stomachs eager to take in a Thanksgiving meal last week didn't seem to be the only such noises heard across the central part of the North Olympic Peninsula.

All Hazard Alert Broadcast System warning sirens will sound in communities along the North Olympic Peninsula coast at noon Monday.

The Christmas tree that brought the highest auction bid during Friday night's Festival of Trees gala was "A MacKenzie Child's-Inspired Christmas," which fetched $5,500 for the Olympic Medical Center Foundation and the Port Angeles Exchange Club.

A Port Angeles woman involved in two home break-ins must complete a chemical-dependency treatment program after pleading guilty to two counts of residential burglary and one of forgery.

Post-Thanksgiving shopping was encouraging for many North Olympic Peninsula merchants who reported gains over last year as the holiday shopping season moves into December.

Santa Claus makes his first Sequim stop at 2 p.m. today By Joe Smillie Peninsula Daily News SEQUIM -- Ol' Saint Nick makes his first Sequim stop of the season this afternoon, though he's forgone reindeer this year for chariots more befitting the fertile Dungeness Valley.