Port Angeles
$300,000 damage in Port Angeles bulldozer rampage
PORT ANGELES -- Damage is estimated at $300,000 at a subdivision near Port Angeles where a man allegedly destroyed three houses with a bulldozer, damaged another home and crushed two sheds, a pickup truck, lawn mower, fences and other property in a dispute with a neighbor.
Date: 05/14/2013 | Northwest
Man held on $1M bail after bulldozer rampage
PORT ANGELES -- A judge has set bail at $1 million for a man accused of destroying three homes with a bulldozer during a rampage on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Date: 05/13/2013 | Northwest
Navy uses goats to keep Indian Island trimmed
PORT ANGELES -- Instead of weed-whackers, the Navy is using a herd of goats to control vegetation on Indian Island, the island near Port Townsend where munitions are stored and loaded on ships.
Date: 04/29/2013 | Northwest
Cruise ships visiting Port Angeles, Port Townsend
PORT ANGELES -- Cruise ships will be making 13 visits to Port Angeles and Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula this year.The Peninsula Daily News reported the 100-passenger American Spirit will dock this week for the first of 13 visits through October.
Date: 04/28/2013 | Northwest
Port Angeles chimney stack demolition proves tough
PORT ANGELES -- The demolition of a 175-foot-tall chimney stack on the former Peninsula Plywood mill site in Port Angeles didn't exactly go smoothly.The 1,000-ton smokestack was tougher than it looked.
Date: 04/09/2013 | Northwest
Court to hear appeal from Clallam County embezzler
PORT ANGELES -- The state Court of Appeals is hearing arguments Monday in the case of a former cashier in the Clallam County treasurer's office who was convicted of embezzling more than $600,000 in public money.The Peninsula Daily news reported that Catherine A. Betts, 49,...
Date: 03/31/2013 | Northwest
Federal agencies holding hearing in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- Three federal agencies are holding a hearing Tuesday night at Port Angeles on a new Border Patrol policy that stops agents from providing language translation help to local police.
Date: 02/05/2013 | Northwest
Women say Port Angeles needs more love
PORT ANGELES -- Three Port Angeles women plan to leave anonymous love letters around the city to give strangers an emotional boost.The three are life coaches who collaborate through a website called Thriving on the Olympic Peninsula.
Date: 02/05/2013 | Northwest
Scientist: Beaches grow as Elwha dams are removed
PORT ANGELES -- A scientist monitoring the shoreline near the mouth of the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River says beaches are starting to grow as two massive dams are removed.
Date: 01/20/2013 | Northwest
Sculptures at Port Angeles park vandalized
PORT ANGELES -- An 8-foot tall mushroom sculpture that was toppled is one of about three-dozen sculptures damaged by vandals at a sculpture park in Port Angeles.
Date: 12/21/2012 | Northwest
Author Aaron Elkins retiring 'skeleton detective'
PORT ANGELES -- Mystery writer Aaron Elkins created "skeleton detective" Gideon Oliver 30 years ago, and now he's putting him into retirement.
Date: 12/06/2012 | Northwest
Teacher's anti-gay marriage button spurs parent protest
PORT ANGELES -- A lesbian mother has started an online petition drive urging the Port Angeles School District to prohibit politicking by teachers after an instructor wore a "No on 74" button in her daughter's eighth-grade classroom.
Date: 11/18/2012 | Northwest
Elwha sediment from dam removal monitored
PORT ANGELES -- The U. S. Geological Survey says removing the two dams on the Elwha River is exposing 24 million cubic yards of sediment deposited in the reservoirs.The agency said that's enough sediment to fill the Seattle Seahawks' CenturyLink Field eight times.
Date: 10/23/2012 | Northwest
One lane of U.S. 101 reopens
PORT ANGELES -- The Washington Transportation Department says U.S. Highway 101 has reopened to one lane of alternating traffic at a spot along Lake Crescent in Clallam County. The lane reopened Thursday evening.
Date: 10/18/2012 | Northwest
Rockslide closes Highway 101 west of Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- Workers were trying to stabilize a rocky hillside on Highway 101 in Olympic National Park when rolling rocks became too much of a risk.
Date: 10/17/2012 | Northwest
Drones record video of Elwha River changes
PORT ANGELES -- Scientists are using remote-control planes to record video of changes in the Elwha River following the removal of two Olympic Peninsula dams.
Date: 09/26/2012 | Northwest
Coast Guard takes injured boater to Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- The Coast Guard rescued an injured boater overnight from a sailboat about 13 miles west of Port Angeles.The Coast Guard said a 53-year-old man was severely injured Tuesday night by the boom on his 40-foot sailboat at Crescent Bay.
Date: 09/19/2012 | Northwest
Released inmate surrenders in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- A Clallam County Jail inmate who was mistakenly released Tuesday is back behind bars.The 35-year-old Port Angeles man, Lavan A. Lukes, turned himself in Thursday at the Clallam County Courthouse.
Date: 09/07/2012 | Northwest
Port Angeles sculpture resembles whale vertebra
PORT ANGELES -- A 7-ton concrete sculpture installed Wednesday in the Port Angeles resembles the shape of a gray whale vertebra. But artist Alex Anderson made changes so kids could climb on it or people could sit on it as a bench.
Date: 09/06/2012 | Northwest
New superintendent for Olympic National Park
PORT ANGELES -- It will be a dramatic change of scenery for the new superintendent of Olympic National Park on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
Date: 08/23/2012 | Northwest
Man sought in burglary found hiding in couch
PORT ANGELES -- Police in Port Angeles say they've arrested a burglary suspect they've been seeking for more than a week. They found him hiding inside a couch.
Date: 07/03/2012 | Northwest
No more bones found behind old Elwha Dam
PORT ANGELES -- Searchers found no more bones on the bottom of the former Lake Aldwell, which was exposed earlier this year by the removal of the Elwha Dam.
Date: 06/22/2012 | Northwest
Not guilty plea in Clallam sex offender killings
PORT ANGELES -- A not guilty plea was entered for a man accused of killing two sex offenders after he attempted to plead guilty in court in Port Angeles.The Peninsula Daily News reports the lawyer for Patrick Drum, 34, entered the plea for him Wednesday in Clallam County Superior Court.
Date: 06/14/2012 | Northwest
Sex offender slaying suspect could face death penalty
PORT ANGELES -- Clallam County Prosecutor Deb Kelly is considering whether to seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing two men because they were registered sex offenders.
Date: 06/07/2012 | Northwest
New Border Patrol station for Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- A new Border Patrol station in Port Angeles is ready for agents to start moving in.
Date: 05/30/2012 | Northwest
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