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State wildlife managers plan to use drone flight technology to assist in surveying seal and sea lion habitat and populations along the state’s coast and inland waters, according to agency … This item ...

By Mitzi JO Gordon A late winter snowfall dumped nearly four inches of snow across Port Townsend and much of Jefferson County this week. High winds arrived on Feb. 25, with PUD … ...

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 ...

Work on Hood Canal Bridge to be done at night Many in Jefferson County are breathing a sigh of relief over the upcoming summer tourism season. There may actually be one, after all. Crucial work to ...

This fall is shining a spotlight on Puget Sound filmmakers, one of whom is set to be featured at the Port Townsend Film Festival (PTFF) this month, and another of whom is seeing her film debut on a ...

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 ...

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 … ...

In the first week of February, Jefferson County completed one of the final steps in preserving 951 acres of complex, … This item is available in full to subscribers. We have recently launched a new ...

A 1.1-mile restoration of the lower Big Quilcene River and its floodplain, along with replacement of the Linger Longer bridge, is well underway. Under the leadership of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe ...

Jefferson County’s population grew by nearly 8% between 2019 and 2023, according to the five-year American Community Survey, released by the U.S. Census Bureau in … ...

Hundreds of public schools across Washington are located in areas where they could suffer damage in a major earthquake. But more than a decade after the state set out to evaluate school seismic risks, ...