Jefferson County News

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on property assessments and property taxes.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on property assessments and property taxes.

A proposed no-frills $3.6 million 2010 Jefferson Transit Authority budget avoids layoffs.

Power was restored Thursday to all but about 1,600 Clallam County Public Utility District customers in the Joyce area as another storm pushed into the North Olympic Peninsula.

TO OUR READERS: Keep checking this Web site for National Weather Service forecasts and updates on progress toward restoring power across the North Olympic Peninsula.

The Jefferson Transit Authority board honored Anthony Lane, and Olivia Leighann Rogers, two good Samaritans who came to the aid of a Transit bus driver and others Oct.

Hearing the overall magnitude of Jefferson County's financial woes Monday, county commissioners set a Dec.

A new agreement between Jefferson County and the Jefferson Associated Council for indigent defense will boost spending to defend in the county's biggest criminal trial of the year.

Jeff Randall, sales representative for Power Trip Energy, talks to Tudi Haasl, center, and Deb Wiese in front of the new solar array atop their home on 29th Street in Port Townsend.

Public health officials have confirmed that one person on the North Olympic Peninsula has died of complications of swine flu.

Brinnon Fire District Commissioner Ken McEdwards has retained his seat, while Richard Quinnell is the apparent winner for the Gardiner Cemetery District commission -- although that race could go to a recount.

Under a Thursday deadline to meet state Growth Management Act requirements, Jefferson County commissioners reluctantly approved rural standards for the Port Hadlock urban growth area this week.

A Washington State Court of Appeals ruling upholds Fred Hill Materials' right to expand gravel mining at its site south of state Highway 104.

The Washington State Court of Appeals has upheld the Jefferson County commissioners' rezone of 690 acres in East Jefferson County as a "mineral resources land overlay." The overlay is related to a pit-to-pier gravel-mining operation proposed by Fred Hill Materials.

Dana Roberts, Jefferson County Public Utility District commissioner, remained in a coma in a Seattle hospital late Monday after suffering a heart attack early Friday morning.

A three-vehicle collision involving a commercial box van briefly blocked traffic on Hood Canal Bridge Monday morning.

City Council members and Jefferson County commissioners vowed during a joint meeting last week to collaborate on critical issues of economic development, land use and water planning in what could be a first step toward political unity.

High winds blew a tree down across U.S. Highway 101 near the Big Quilcene River Bridge about a mile south of Quilcene, downing power lines and closing the highway in both directions for more than an hour Thursday afternoon.

The outcome of many Jefferson County races could be decided today as the Jefferson County Auditor's Office prepares to run an additional 2,064 ballots in the general election.

Steve Craig learned to build his first airplane from nose to tail before he earned his pilot's license.