On Thursday evening, comments left by members of the public on the “Judge Ferguson-Brown” Facebook page began to disappear. By Friday morning, the public could no longer comment at all. Post after post on the page now carries the same quiet notice from Facebook: “Judge Ferguson-Brown limited who

A 41-year-old Port Angeles woman is facing a felony assault charge after a Wednesday evening welfare check near Seventh and Laurel streets ended with officers carrying her to a patrol car, where police say she kicked an officer in the stomach. Deanna L. Long made her first appearance

A federal judge ruled Thursday that Jonathan E. Karns must remain jailed pending trial, denying a defense motion seeking his release to an inpatient drug treatment program. U.S. District Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright issued the ruling following a 2:30 p.m. hearing at the Tacoma federal courthouse.  After

Picture the steps of the Clallam County Courthouse this past winter. Angry citizens standing in the freezing cold, holding signs condemning a "Good Ol' Boy's Network" that ignores abuse and breaks up families.  Women dressed in the scarlet cloaks of The Handmaid’s Tale, silently

Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Cadine Ferguson-Brown, a familiar presence in the Clallam County courthouse through her regular assignments as a visiting judge, drew campaign finance complaints in each of her last two judicial campaigns, according to Washington State Public Disclosure Commission records reviewed by The Olympic Herald. The

Port Angeles School District Director Nancy Hamilton has taken her fight with the board majority to court. In a complaint filed Tuesday afternoon in Clallam County Superior Court, Hamilton asks a judge to declare Resolution 2526-18, the censure the board adopted 4-1 on June 18, "arbitrary, capricious,

A Washington State appellate court has ruled that a Pierce County judge went too far when he disqualified the entire Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's Office from a criminal case because the alleged victim of one of the charges was a deputy prosecutor in that office. In a published

A 26-year-old Port Angeles man pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Clallam County Superior Court to a charge of second-degree assault by strangulation, a domestic violence offense stemming from an alleged July 6 attack on a woman at her Port Angeles apartment. Elijah D. Creed entered the plea

The Quillayute Valley School District Board of Directors will hold a special meeting today at 12:00 PM in the Forks High School Library/Media Center, with nearly the entire session set to take place behind closed doors. According to the published agenda, the board will call the meeting to

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.

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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