Port Angeles News

When you consider favorite birding places or those "hot spots" birders try to visit on a regular basis, Ediz Hook comes up regularly.

WaveDivision Holdings has acquired Port Angeles, WA based Capacity Provisioning Incorporated , which is one of the largest privately owned fiber-based metro Ethernet providers on the Olympic Peninsula.

Before a repair pit can be dug in front of the stranded Highway 99 tunnel machine, crews will probe the dirt for historic artifacts.

The city is accepting applications to fill vacancies on various boards, commissions and committees.

The Port Angeles School Board has selected semifinalists from a field of 36 applicants for district superintendent but will not release the names of those chosen until they have been contacted.

Obeka, a young giant Pacific octopus, sprawls out in a specimen tray at the Feiro Marine Life Center in Port Angeles on Wednesday as a small crab crouches in the corner.

A mental competency hearing originally set Wednesday morning for the Port Angeles man accused of tearing through a Gales Addition neighborhood with a bulldozer in May was delayed a week.

Clallam County sheriff's deputies pursued a man Wednesday morning who had been sought since a Woodcock Road house was burgled last week.

A routine design project has sparked a conversation among Clallam County officials about the role of the private sector in shared government efforts to be efficient.

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.