Less than a year after cutting staff and tapping reserves to address a projected $5.2 million budget gap, Jefferson County officials are again staring at difficult financial decisions, with a ...

High school seniors and others can now apply for financial aid for the 2027-28 academic year.“Washington provides more free money for students to attend college or job training than virtually any ...

After high school, Bjorn plans to attend the University of Washington and is considering a degree in accounting. He hopes his future includes a stable home, a career he truly loves and plenty of ...

Moviegoers at the Rose Theater found their films interrupted by a false fire alarm Oct. 15 just after 8 p.m. “There was like 20 minutes left in our movie,” said Luke Silliman, who was watching the ...

On Oct. 5, 39-year-old Micah B. Lacunza was arrested in Seattle, after being charged with vehicular homicide in connection with a fatal collision that occurred Feb. 15 on U.S. Highway 101, near Palo ...

This month, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will be reaching out to Marine Area 9- Admiralty Inlet Dungeness crabbers who harvested crab during the 2025 season with a brief, ...

After informing the state that one of its pipes had leaked 114,630 gallons of industrial waste into Port Townsend Bay – a spill The Leader prominently reported on Sept. 24 – the Port Townsend Paper Co ...

Recently, this post appeared on one of my social medial outlets: “It was just so hot. We decided to take Arny [the dog] to the lake and go swimming. We swam for a couple of hours and had a great time.

Four local heritage and historic preservation initiatives have been awarded grants totaling $1.9 million of the $10 million being distributed this year by the state historical society’s Heritage ...

Have you been wanting to test drive an electric vehicle–an EV? Or perhaps you need a car occasionally, either as an individual or for a local business? A new EV carshare program in Port Townsend ...

Shawn Thomas Fontana Sr., 69, passed away on April 28, 2026. Born on June 7th, 1956, to Penelope and Alfonzo Fontana, in Waterbury, CT. The Fontana family moved to Port Angeles in 1975. Shawn was a ...

State and tribal fisheries biologists announced the capture of invasive European green crabs near the port of La Push, and the finding marks the first time this crab species has been detected along ...