As fire mars Forks’ July 4 plans, Port Angeles events draw thousands
PORT ANGELES – Thousands of people reveled in the Fourth of July activities across the north Olympic Peninsula Tuesday, but one festival had festivities end abruptly. Forks called off its fireworks display after a fast-moving brush fire
Habitat For Humanity breaks ground on affordable/workforce housing development
By Pepper Fisher SEQUIM – A groundbreaking ceremony in a cow pasture in Sequim Wednesday afternoon got the ball rolling on a major new workforce housing development initiated and managed by Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County
As fire mars Forks’ July 4 plans, Port Angeles events draw thousands
PORT ANGELES – Thousands of people reveled in the Fourth of July activities across the north Olympic Peninsula Tuesday, but one festival had festivities end abruptly. Forks called off its fireworks display after a fast-moving brush fire
Habitat For Humanity breaks ground on affordable/workforce housing development
By Pepper Fisher SEQUIM – A groundbreaking ceremony in a cow pasture in Sequim Wednesday afternoon got the ball rolling on a major new workforce housing development initiated and managed by Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County
Man pleads guilty to raping Ohio girl who ended up traveling across state lines for abortion
LordHenriVoton/Getty Images (OHIO) — An Ohio man pleaded guilty to raping a then-9-year-old girl who later sought an out-of-state abortion in a case that became a flashpoint in the national abortion rights debate after Roe v. Wade
Gov. Ron DeSantis' push for 'civics' education: What does it look like?
Tony Anderson/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said that if elected president in 2024 he would push for civics education about the founding principles of the United States to celebrate the country’s upcoming 250th
Israel withdraws forces after 2-day operation that left 12 Palestinians, 1 Israeli dead
Alexandre Morin-Laprise/Getty Images (JENIN, West Bank) — Israel withdrew its forces from the Jenin refugee camp just after midnight Wednesday, ending the largest military operation it’s conducted in the occupied West Bank in nearly twenty years. The
Biden's Plan B on student loan forgiveness relies on Higher Education Act: What to know
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — President Joe Biden is launching another effort to forgive at least some federal student loan debt after the Supreme Court last week struck down his initial proposal to wipe away as
CDC says 1 in 4 Americans hadn’t had COVID by end of 2022
DuKai photographer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — By the end of 2022, about one in four American adults and older teenagers still hadn’t contracted COVID-19, according to new federal data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
Supreme Court shows surprising restraint in chaotic year of crises: ANALYSIS
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — It’s a conservative Supreme Court that has acted with confidence and conviction, but one that seems increasingly aware of its image problem. Since the addition of the three justices nominated by