Port Angeles News

When someone with a disorienting disorder wanders from their home or caregiver, the disappearance and subsequent search to locate them is a harrowing experience for all involved.

Olympic National Park will have six public meetings to review its next steps in its Wilderness Stewardship Plan, the park announced Wednesday.

Kirkland-based WaveDivision Holdings is adding another broadband company to its expanding network of fiber-optic-cable providers running up and down the West Coast.

The Seattle Police Department is trying to track down a man with a significant limp and a Richard Sherman jersey suspected of stealing ice-cold milk and cold-hard cash from the Northgate Mall Cinnabon last week.

William Payne has hit the ground running. Six weeks into his tenure as Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney, Payne has added a felony deputy, promoted another, amended charging standards and expedited drug court referrals.

Washington State University Clallam County's Lois Bellamy will demonstrate how to start seeds indoors in the commissioners' meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse.

The cause of death of an eastern Steller sea lion found washed up with three holes in its body last week will remain a mystery for the time being.

The State Patrol says a white 1992 Kenworth van driven by a Port Angeles man was eastbound near Barr Road about 10:30 this morning.

Paul was born in Rugby, North Dakota, to Carl and Lorraine Topness but moved to the Bremerton area when he was very young and spent all of his school years there graduating from Bremerton High School in 1955.

Traffic on Lincoln Street between Front and Second streets will be disrupted between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday while city workers drill a series of soil samples in the roadway.

A city employee who is seeking $100,000 in damages from the city, citing alleged sexual harassment by a City Council member and a hostile work environment, is no longer being paid after her accrued leave time ran out last week.

Makah tribal member Alex Wise discusses his halibut hook project with Jacqueline Laverdure, education specialist for Olympic National Marine Sanctuary.

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.