The Quillayute Valley School District has paid $765,834.77 to former assistant cross-country coach Kari Larson, formally closing the books on the federal lawsuit that exposed years of institutional failure inside the Forks school system. A Satisfaction of Judgment filed July 2 in U.S. District Court in

The Washington State Auditor’s Office has cited the North Kitsap School District for a material weakness in its internal controls after finding the district failed to properly document how it spent federal money intended for students at risk of falling behind academically. The finding appears in the district’s

A Washington State appellate court has thrown out a man's Kitsap County conviction for violating a domestic violence no-contact order, ruling that the State failed to prove a friend's phone call to the man's ex-wife amounted to contact "through a third

Division Two rules that title insurance and escrow services sold to Washington property owners are taxable here — even when the work is performed at out-of-state offices.

The Port Angeles School District should have bargained with its office professionals’ union before cutting secretarial hours as part of its 2025 budget reductions, an independent arbitrator has ruled, sustaining the union’s grievance and ordering the district to negotiate before any more bargaining unit work is moved out of

A federal judge in Tacoma will hear arguments Thursday on whether Jonathan E. Karns should remain jailed pending trial or be released to inpatient drug treatment.

The Olympic Herald’s new website is live. Same mission, better machine: nearly 300 stories — every investigation, court report, and records fight we’ve published — now organized by section, fully searchable, and built to carry this work for the long haul. What hasn’t changed matters more. Every story is

A Clallam County Superior Court judge on Friday postponed the felony rape trial of former Sequim police officer Christian Whitaker until November, granting a defense request for more time over the objection of prosecutors who argued the defense had already had nearly two years to get ready. Judge Simon Barnhart

Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has permanently revoked the teaching certificate of Jordan Henderson, a former Evergreen Elementary School teacher convicted this year of sexually abusing four of his young students, and has permanently barred him from ever applying to teach in the state’s public schools

A Kitsap County man was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing fentanyl with intent to deliver it, capping a Clallam County prosecution that began with a March drug raid at the 7 Cedars Casino in Blyn. Dylan C. Marsh-Backs, 36, pleaded guilty July

Six months ago, The Olympic Herald was launched with a single, uncompromising mission: to provide fearless, independent investigative journalism that holds power accountable. Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, Thomas Jefferson wrote the job description for every honest newspaper that would follow: “let Facts be submitted to a

Earlier today, the Port Angeles School District released the first installment of records responsive to my June 22 Public Records Act request: the June 11 letter from Director Nancy Hamilton to the board and district counsel—the document at the center of last month’s censure fight. Readers can download