Forks News

North Olympic Peninsula cheerleaders escaped an intestinally virus that sickened more than 200 cheerleaders and their supporters at the state cheerleading championships - because they didn't attend.

A low-pressure center located over Western Washington will be spinning showers across the Puget Sound through the day today before moving east of the region by late in the day.A Coastal areas south of Forks will see more steady and heavier rainfall, and a few coastal locations could end up with upwards of an inch of rain by day's end.A Most ... (more)

THE STEELHEAD ARE at or near their peak, and um, well, so are the anglers in the crowded but very fruitful Sol Duc River on the West End.

THERE'S A LOT happening in the live music world this week, including a new dancing venue, a venue reopening in Sequim and some places you might want to take your sweetheart for Valentine's Day.

The KING 5 Investigators have found that millions of taxpayer dollars could have been saved long ago if a simple policy on home assignments would have been instituted.

The "Twilight" and "Hunger Games" series of books and movies appeal to teens for different reasons, but for me, there's no contest between the two.

Clallam County and the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe have teamed up to add a second deputy to enforce tribal and state law in the Blyn area.

The North Olympic Peninsula's contingent of U.S. Border Patrol agents has a new agent in charge.

A FUNNY THING happened the night I was first set to arrive on the North Olympic Peninsula.

A traditional Quileute headdress is one item on view in the National Museum of the American Indian's new show.

Forks Community Hospital became the third and final North Olympic Peninsula hospital to join the Swedish Health Network this week.

Nir Barnea, far right, West Coast regional director for NOAA's Marine Debris Program, shows an illustration on how the body of debris from last spring's Japan earthquake-tsunami is moving across the Pacific Ocean.

North Olympic Peninsula residents managed to avoid serious injury during last week's snowstorms, despite a total of 83 small vehicle mishaps on the snowbound and icy roads in Clallam and Jefferson counties.

Moises Ramirez Matias, who is accused of murdering 18-year-old Laranda Konopaski of Forks, is scheduled to go to trial March 12.

The Bank of America branch in Forks closed Friday. Branch manager Michael Riggan attached a sign at 2 p.m. to the entrance of the bank thanking customers for their business.

A bold daylight burglary during a snowstorm was reported last week. A Wood Street home was burglarized at about 2 p.m. Tuesday after the resident gave a ride to a man she knew and who was away from home for about 10 minutes, Forks Police Sgt.

In the event of a snowstorm, a shortage of proper snow supplies can result in a run on trash can lids.

As more snow fell on the North Olympic Peninsula on Thursday, most public schools, including Peninsula College, remained closed, and many public events were postponed.

Team Edward! Team Jacob! Before a January 16 developmental reading of Twilight: The Musical, ushers warmed up an already enthusiastic crowd at New World Stages with a cheer-off, pitting "the girliest screams for the sparkliest man" against wolf-inspired howling.

Both Clallam Transit and Jefferson Transit are running today but on revised snow schedules.