Neah Bay News

The emergency response tug Hunter set out earlier this week to help a stalled, 500-foot chemical tanker before power was restored on the crippled vessel.

A $26,750 grant from the Walmart Foundation is providing three communities in the West End -- Clallam Bay-Sekiu, Neah Bay and Queets -- with emergency shelter trailers.

A dead seabird found Tuesday on the beach at Ocean Shores. Angelo Bruscas With all the news focused on the four police officers slain in Lakewood, lost in the headlines of the week was a fine front-page story in The Seattle Times on Sunday about the mysterious bacteria or algae killing seabirds on the Washington and Oregon coast.

Our five senses combine in another sense that is important to all of us as human beings: a sense of place.

There are just a few days left to comment on the proposed changes in fishing rules for the 2010-12 seasons.

Apocalypse movies like the current 2012 don't do all that well in Seattle. Why? It's because Seattleites face their own apocalypse every year.

Steady rain and gusting winds are expected to continue across the North Olympic Peninsula today as three rivers swell past flood stage.

Skagit Bay, Port Susan, Possession Sound, Tulalip Bay, Port Gardner, Puget Sound.

The Makah Cultural and Research Center is 30 years old. The museum, one of the oldest tribal museums in the nation, celebrated its 30th year in operation with dancing, song and a gathering of the community Saturday.

Emily Joner Dickens, a 22-year-old former resident of Neah Bay and Port Angeles who was critically injured in an Oct.

To learn more about the seabird rescue response or to donate: Wildlife Center of the North Coast: coastwildlife.org International Bird Rescue Research Cente r: ibrrc.org/algae-slime-response-2009.html Video Seabird deaths HOBUCK BEACH, Neah Bay, Clallam County - They died in droves: common murres, scoters, loons and more, in the ...

DON'T EXPECT TO get crabs for Christmas this year. A portion of the North Olympic Peninsula will not open to recreational crabbing this winter, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced on Tuesday.

Makah hereditary chief Lester Hamilton Greene was remembered Saturday as a man who was strong on family and being "a cultural diplomat." Close to 500 family, friends and dignitaries gathered in the Neah Bay High School gym at a memorial service to say goodbye to Mr.

If you've had the flu this season, it was probably swine flu, the North Olympic Peninsula's top public health officer said Tuesday.

More than 1,000 people are expected at Saturday's funeral service in Neah Bay for Makah tribal leader Lester Greene.

It's been many years since the Cape Flattery lighthouse at Tatoosh Island, the northwesternmost point in the Lower 48, needed to be tended by a lighthouse keeper, and the lonely outpost will revert to more traditional uses in the near future.

Chimacum held off archrival Port Townsend in a nonleague volleyball match Monday.

Searchers discovered with relief early Saturday afternoon that the man they feared had drowned in the rain-swollen Bogachiel River was alive and well in his Forks home.

A man who law enforcement believed might have drowned in the Bogachiel River this morning has been found alive and well at his Forks home, said Clallam County Sheriff's Office Chief Criminal Deputy Ron Cameron.

Why, hello there October! In what might be considered an appetizer for the usual fall stormy season, an abrupt change in the weather pattern is under way, going from dry and chilly to wet and windy as three storms make their way toward our zip codes this week.