Port Townsend News

More than 750 people came together on Independence Day for a varied and eclectic collection of holiday entertainment staged at Fort Worden State Park.

Ferry commuters could be in for a long wait this weekend. Especially if you don't plan ahead.

When Michael Klupfell asked the Port Townsend City Council if he could erect a permanent sign on his new business, The Village Baker Cafe, he was surprised to hear that the city would work with him.

Video: An impromptu Jam on the front porch of building 204, the main community gathering center, at FiddleTunes .

There is still work to be done on what exactly will stay and go as far as "sandwich-board" style signs are concerned.

The Port Townsend City Council and Board of Jefferson County Commissioners have agreed to establish a list of parcels that could be developed for affordable housing.

Our first encounter with the Pacific Ocean on this trip couldn't have been better, thanks to a bunch of people we don't know and never heard of, but who deserve their praises sung to the highest hills of Vancouver Island.

Starting next month, it will become substantially cheaper to work on a boat in the Port of Port Townsend boat yard.

Rebecca Cummins of Seattle puts the finishing touches on her piece, titled "Deer Cam," part of the 2009 Art Outside exhibition in Websters Woods of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on Sunday.

Four historic ferries that served Port Townsend and Keystone as well as other ferry routes in the Puget Sound region for decades will soon be scrapped.

The mothballed Steel Electric-class ferries, including two which served the Port Townsend-Keystone route until they were abruptly pulled out of service near Thanksgiving 2007, are going south of the border -- and the scrap heap.

Although this year's fireworks will continue as planned, the Sunrise Rotary Club announced that it will not fund next year's show, citing financial constraints.

With just three cases of swine flu now recorded on the North Olympic Peninsula, local health officials remain far from considering any closures of events, schools and other public facilities -- but that could change if it begins to spread at a high rate, said Dr.

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Recumbent bicycle made by Big ha for me. Less than 200 Miles use, perfect condition.

Two Olympic Peninsula tribes say federal, state and county officials have failed to protect tribal shellfish beds in Marrowstone Island's Mystery Bay in violation of treaty rights.

Jefferson County's Sheriff's Office and Prosecuting Attorney's office have begun working a bit closer together in a new joint community policing effort.

Dorothee Royal-Hedinger, Orgainic Nation Host, and Mark Boyer, cameraman, talk about their O.N. Kick Off Tour and the equipment they use to produce videos on the road.

A fire that destroyed a Port Townsend man's motor home but caused no injuries blocked both lanes of U.S. Highway 101 near Dosewallips Road beginning at about 11:38 a.m. today.

State Public Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark has delayed a proposed land trade between the Department of Natural Resources and timber titan Pope Resources.