An end is in sight for the months-long closure of the Upper Hoh Road — the only access point to one of Washington’s most popular natural wonders: the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park.

For the better part of a decade, living and working in Port Townsend has allowed me to spend the holidays with family for most of those years, a luxury I couldn’t take for granted in my previous ...

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The Quilcene school board passed a resolution to ban transgender athletes from competing in school sports at its May 7 meeting, in violation of both state anti-discrimination laws and existing ...

Plans to shutter the Port Townsend Recreation Center have been put on hold as county officials explore alternative funding options. The Jefferson County Parks and Recreation Department identified ...

When I was a babe in the woods of the news business, there were a couple of unspoken rules. One was that we didn’t swing back if someone hit us with smack-talk, including public officials. … This item ...

The Makah Ozette potato, a type of fingerling long cultivated by the Olympic Peninsula’s Makah Tribe, has a unique story. All potatoes originated in the Peruvian Andes, but, until recently, experts ...

Do you like language humor? Me, too. Every so often I check the Washington Post’s annual Neologism Contest (big word there), in which readers supply alternate meanings for common … ...

They’ve played together for decades, but local Celtic harpist David Michael and Southwestern guitarist Michael Mandrell agreed it’s been too long since they’ve played together for the public in Port ...

The U.S. Navy has released its Draft Amended Analysis to the Growler Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), but the Navy’s avenues for further public involvement in the process have drawn criticism ...

Few people on the Quimper Peninsula know what to do when they come across an injured deer. That was evident from the 89 replies to a Dec. 26 post by Teri Evernden of Port Townsend on social media. The ...