Neah Bay 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 man accused of driving drunk when he caused a head-on wreck that killed an Ahousat, B.C., man in August is mulling a plea offer that would lead to a five-year prison sentence.

Students in Neah Bay will be awarded $70,000 in technology and software for their school, thanks to a student documentary project that brings together technology, filmmaking and environmental efforts, contest sponsor Samsung announced Tuesday.

This is the biggest cleanup of the year organized by Washington CoastSavers, a part of the Washington Clean Coast Alliance.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred off the coast of Vancouver Island on Saturday afternoon, the USGS reports.

Within a month, items lost in the Japanese tsunami last year should start washing ashore on the Oregon Coast, according to scientists.

Is the black float found on a Neah Bay area beach really from the Japan tsunami? Last Thursday, Tomoko Dodo, senior consul from the Consulate General of Japan in Seattle, visited the home of Arnold Schouten, a member of Surfrider Foundation, to see the float for herself.

The trial of a Port Angeles man accused of driving drunk when he caused a head-on wreck that killed an Ahousat, B.C., man in August has been postponed.

A count Thursday will aim to get an accurate snapshot of the number of homeless on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Once the pride of Puget Sound, the historic ferry Kalakala is in such bad shape the Corps of Engineers could seize it and dismantle the vessel to prevent it from becoming a hazard to navigation.

The 1930s-era art deco ferry Kalakala sets sail from Seattle's Lake Union for a trip to Neah Bay in this 2004 file photo.

Snowy, wintry weather is expected to continue easing its grip on the North Olympic Peninsula - at least until Friday.

The ocean mapping and zoning process off the Oregon coast will attempt to balance a diversity of needs and interests including those of fishermen and ocean energy technologies.

Traveling down the west coast of Peru, I was surprised by the fact of how much of the country is a desert.

Snow flurries are expected to continue to dust the North Olympic Peninsula through Tuesday, though accumulations will be limited to an inch or 2 in the lowlands, the National Weather Service said Saturday.