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Port Angeles School Board to ban classroom pets
PORT ANGELES -- The Port Angeles School Board is banning classroom pets because of concerns that dogs, rabbits, snakes and baby chicks threaten student health and safety.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Northwest
Port Angeles teen ordered to pay for baby's burial
PORT ANGELES -- A woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for her baby’s death has been ordered to pay $7,400 for funeral and burial expenses.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
Sediment from Elwha River begins to enter sea
PORT ANGELES -- Backed up for decades, murky sediment from the newly liberated Elwha River has begun to form a plume as it empties into the blue waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Date: 04/29/2012 | Northwest
Ship brings more than 2,000 shoppers to Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- A Holland America cruise ship delivered more than 2,000 shoppers to Port Angeles this week. It was the first cruise ship to visit the port city since 2010.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Northwest
Fugitive who noted escape on Facebook arrested
PORT ANGELES -- A Port Angeles man whose Facebook page got the attention of authorities after he eluded police has been arrested.The Port Angeles Police Department said officers found Travis A. Nicolaysen without incident on Monday after receiving a tip that he was hiding in a home there.
Date: 04/16/2012 | Northwest
Facebook fugitive still on the lam in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- A fugitive from Port Angeles police remains at large Tuesday with no new updates on Facebook.Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith said Travis Nicolaysen, 26, is still on the lam, but Smith expects he'll eventually be caught.
Date: 04/10/2012 | Northwest
Artifacts from Elwha River dams to be displayed
PORT ANGELES -- Artifacts from the Elwha River dams will be put on display at visitor centers across the West later this year.The two decades-old dams are being torn down as part of a $325 million federal project to restore the Elwha River's ecosystem and its once-famous salmon runs.
Date: 04/08/2012 | Northwest
Bank helps woman, 92, reclaim account after reported dead
PORT ANGELES -- Betty Longshore, 92, was very much alive Feb. 29 when her bank telephoned her to find out if she was dead."They said, 'Betty, is this you? We have a report you are deceased,'" the west Port Angeles resident recalled.
Date: 03/19/2012 | Northwest
Study sees more wood fuel in state's forests
PORT ANGELES -- Three million tons of logging waste a year -- double the amount that's currently extracted -- can be removed from Washington forests for biomass fuel production without harming forest health, a state Department of Natural Resources study found.
Date: 03/14/2012 | Northwest
New border patrol agent in charge at Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- The new agent in charge at the Border Patrol's Port Angeles station has made community outreach one of his top jobs.
Date: 02/06/2012 | Northwest
Feds deny blame for killer Olympic park goat
PORT ANGELES -- The U.S. attorney's office says Olympic National Park was not to blame for the death of a hiker who was gored by a mountain goat.
Date: 01/27/2012 | Northwest
Reburied skull found near mouth of Elwha River
PORT ANGELES -- The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe plans to rebury a skull found near the mouth of the Elwha River, and it won't be the first such reburial.Tribal Chairwoman Frances Charles said the skull was found by tribal members Monday afternoon on a beach.
Date: 01/05/2012 | Northwest
Interior Dept. denies claim in Olympic goat goring
PORT ANGELES -- The U.S. Department of the Interior has rejected more than $10 million in wrongful-death and personal injury claims filed in connection with the Oct. 16, 2010, goring death of a Port Angeles resident by an Olympic National Park mountain goat that was following him.
Date: 10/28/2011 | Northwest
Disabled woman begged killer to stop, police say
PORT ANGELES -- Port Angeles police say a 27-year-old woman begged her killer to stop as she was being strangled.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Northwest
Coast Guard pilot charged in fatal crash
PORT ANGELES -- The only survivor of a Coast Guard helicopter crash that killed three others on the Washington coast has been charged with negligent homicide and other violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Northwest
Driver misses deer, hits truck near Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES -- A driver who swerved her pickup truck to miss a deer collided with a logging truck early Thursday on Highway 112 near Port Angeles.
Date: 10/20/2011 | Northwest
Murder charged in Port Angeles shooting
PORT ANGELES -- A man accused of killing his next-door neighbor in Port Angeles during a violent argument was charged Thursday with murder.Bail for 58-year-old Bobby J. Smith was set at $1 million. He's accused of shooting 63-year-old Robert Fowler in June at Smith's home.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Northwest
Ceremony marks start of Elwha Dam removal project
PORT ANGELES -- A few hundred people and several dozen Chinook salmon gathered near the Elwha Dam on Saturday to witness the beginning of the process to set the Elwha River free and restore five species of Pacific salmon to more than 70 miles of river and stream.
Date: 09/17/2011 | Northwest
Helicopter to be used in counting Olympic National Park goats
PORT ANGELES -- The National Park Service plans to use a helicopter in counting the number of mountain goats in Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest.
Date: 07/13/2011 | Northwest
Body of man who fled border agents found in Sol Duc River
SEATTLE -- The body of a man who ran from Border Patrol agents last month has been found by searchers in the Sol Duc River near Forks, authorities said Monday.
Date: 06/06/2011 | Northwest
More winter access at Hurricane Ridge debated
PORT ANGELES -- Officials are debating whether to increase winter access to Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park next year.
Date: 06/05/2011 | Northwest
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