Kitsap County overreported federal opioid grant expenditures by $2.2 million and reported nearly $3.7 million in disaster assistance expenditures in the wrong year, according to a Washington State Auditor’s Office report. The audit covers the county’s 2025 fiscal year. Auditors found that the county’s procedures

An investigation into a motorcycle reported stolen in Port Angeles led to two arrests at a residence near South Barr Road in Sequim, according to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded at about 7:43 p.m. on September 16 to a report of a motorcycle theft in

The Washington State Auditor’s Office has again warned that Olympic Medical Center’s declining financial condition puts the Clallam County hospital district at risk of being unable to meet its obligations or maintain current levels of service. The accountability audit, published Sept. 17, 2026, covers the 2024 calendar year.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Initiative 2066, the voter-approved measure restricting state and local efforts to discourage natural gas use, is unconstitutional because it violates Washington’s single-subject rule. The 6-3 decision in Climate Solutions v. State affirms a King County Superior Court ruling that

A 42-year-old Port Angeles man escaped arrest Friday morning after a supervisor ended a Highway 101 pursuit because of high speeds and driving into oncoming lanes, according to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office identified the driver as Brian J. Arnold. Deputies later found

The Washington State Commission on Judicial Conduct has censured former Okanogan County Superior Court Commissioner Robert Colbert after he admitted exchanging inappropriate sexual communications with a court employee and failing to rule on a parenting plan matter within the required time. The commission announced the stipulation earlier today. Under the

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a woman who completed Snohomish County’s drug court program was not entitled under federal due process protections to a refund of her $900 participation fee after the state’s felony drug possession law was declared unconstitutional. The September 10 decision in State

Multiple speakers challenged the Quillayute Valley School Board’s account of the Larson lawsuit Tuesday, pointing to a verdict against the district and a cancelled investigative interview as they demanded corrections and changes in how harassment complaints are handled. The board offered no substantive public answer. After the comment period,

A 39-year-old Port Angeles woman was arrested Sunday morning after a Clallam County sheriff’s deputy used her patrol vehicle to stop the woman’s vehicle as it entered oncoming traffic in Carlsborg, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Authorities identified the driver as Deidre Gonzalez. No injuries

An 18-year-old Kent man has been arrested in connection with the Chelan Hills Fire, the July 4 wildfire in Douglas County that killed an Orondo resident, injured firefighters and caused millions of dollars in damage. Douglas County sheriff’s detectives arrested Michael Yakimov in Kent on September 2,

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the mother of a woman killed by Tacoma police in 2016 can sue the city for keeping an officer on the force after, she alleges, it learned of domestic violence allegations against him, even though the city concedes the officer was acting within

The Legislature will not gavel in again until January. To most people that reads as the off-season. It isn’t. The interim is when the next session gets written—in committee work groups, agency rulemaking, and the budget requests that land in the governor’s office this fall—and

A Clallam County Superior Court judge set bail at $500,000 last week for a 58-year-old Sequim man who was arrested at his home on a Virginia warrant accusing him of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. Alexander Holmes Wright was taken into custody at about 6:

Clallam County Superior Court Judge Brent Basden set bail at $10,000 for a 47-year-old Brinnon man who was arrested Sunday night at a Sequim hotel. Ryan M. Simmons was detained on Sunday, August 30, in a third-floor hallway of the Holiday Inn Express on East Washington

The Washington State Auditor's Office has concluded that Olympic Educational Service District No. 114 is operating outside its statutory authority by providing paid network and technology support to fire districts, ports and a library district.  The Bremerton-based agency has pushed back, saying the auditor is reading a

A Port Angeles medical assistant has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Clallam County Public Hospital District No. 2, the public entity that operates Olympic Medical Center, alleging the district failed to provide legally required meal and rest breaks, shaved compensable minutes off employee time records through a rounding

Four and a half months after a federal jury found the Quillayute Valley School District liable for a hostile work environment, the district finally addressed it in public.  What the community received Tuesday was not an apology or an action plan. It was a prepared statement, roughly eight minutes, defending

The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating a 35-year-old man who disappeared after setting out on a borrowed motorcycle toward the Elwha River in November 2025. Loren T. Ciceri was last seen in November 2025 in the Elwha River Road

Brian Weekes has resigned from the Forks Planning Commission, Mayor Tim Fletcher confirmed to The Olympic Herald, leaving the city's land use panel on the same day a petition seeking his removal was posted online. “Mr. Weekes resigned Monday morning from our planning commission,” Fletcher wrote in an

A Clallam County Superior Court judge set bail at a combined $500,000 on Thursday for a 30-year-old Port Angeles man whose arrest this week ended a two-day search, finding that the presumption favoring release had been overcome. Aaron J. Hatfield was taken into custody at about

A divided Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that breath test results are admissible in a vehicular homicide prosecution even though the arresting deputy saw tiny strands of chewing tobacco stuck between the driver's teeth before administering the test. The 5-4 decision filed Thursday morning, affirms the Court