Port Orchard News

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - Police are looking for a Kitsap County man who's been missing for four days.

The committee is calling for the purchase of the span by the state at a price of $325,000, a figure near the state's Highway Department appraisal.

Yesterday's last stop on our tour of ?!?!?!?!???? arguments against gay marriage was Republican Representative Mark Hargrove, of Covington, who cited a Jack in the Box commercial as proof that gays shouldn't be married.

Kitsap County prosecutors dropped charges against his alleged assailant in August and do not plan to file new charges, despite his death.

Two men are in the Kitsap County jail after they allegedly tried to set fire to the Bethel Tavern.

An online petition started last week on the website www.change.org demanded that the Humane Society's nine-member board of directors be elected positions, voted on by donors and volunteers.

It's hard to know for sure what's going on these days with the Kitsap Humane Society, because the entire board of directors seems to be lying low since the nonprofit's executive director left suddenly and an online petition leveled accusations of mismanagement.

Scaling back the Urban Growth Areas within Kitsap County is a complicated task, but for a group of neighbors in a rural spot south of Port Orchard, it's a simple issue.

A search is underway for a 65-year-old Port Orchard man who vanished from his Port Orchard home on Wednesday.

Lee Daly has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of Port Orchard since 1968. And in nearly half a century since he first signed up, the 95-year-old Daly has not once missed out on credit for one of the club's weekly meetings.

Anti-tobacco legislation making its way through Olympia would close a downtown small business, as well as many others around the state, if passed into law.

A Port Orchard woman with a baby in her BMW sedan lost control of her car Monday morning and caused a multi-vehicle crash that temporarily closed State Route 3 in Gorst near Division Avenue.

KATHY BERG, BREMERTON COMMUNITY THEATRE / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Brindsley, played by Chris Dolan, sneaks a chair out of the darkened apartment occupied by Miss Furnival, played by Katrina Hodiak, and Harold, played by Raymond Deuel.

A celebration of life service was held Thursday at Rill's Life Tribute Center in Port Orchard, Wash., for Fr.

Megan Shelton, a Bremerton resident, samples butternut squash soup and talks about healthy eating at the Silverdale Soup Swap Jan.

Puget Sound Energy recently began construction above existing electric distribution lines in Port Orchard in an effort to improve electric reliability in the area.

A 35-year-old Kent, Wash., man has been convicted of fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy in the back as he walked home from a store.

How does your fire department determine where to put staffing and equipment in the community? South Kitsap Fire and Rescue , as an accredited fire agency, maintains and operates under a document called the Standard of Coverage .

Ada Mae "Grandma" Hughes, 95 of Port Orchard, Washington died January 30, 2012. She was born May 12, 1916 in Eveleth, Minnesota to William and Ethel Davey.

Adrienne McLaughlin got into pole dancing on accident. An athlete all her life, she said she loved going dancing with her friends, and one day installed a pole in the house she shared with friends.