Port Angeles Based Cutter Returns After Mission to SoCal

PORT ANGELES — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC 618) returned home Friday after a 65-day patrol off Southern California, covering 5,500 miles in support of maritime border security. The crew interdicted three vessels carrying 46
LOCAL SPORTS: District 3 Hoops Heats Up, Pirates Gear Up for NWAC Tournament

Photo: The No. 3 seed Port Angeles Roughriders host No. 6 seed North Mason tonight at 6:00 p.m. BY OLY ARCHIBALD PORT ANGELES — Before basketball aficionados get to March Madness, they still have to get through
What scientists learned from a well-preserved fossil of this iconic Jurassic-era dinosaur

Daniel Eskridg/iStockphoto/Getty Images (LONDON) — The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period dinosaur. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory dinosaur, may have been aided in its underwater hunting
RFK Jr. tells staff he will 'investigate' childhood vaccine schedule, anti-depression drugs
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Freshly confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a room packed with federal health workers on Tuesday that he plans to “investigate” whether the timing of childhood
Judge poised to block limitations on transgender service members
Myloupe/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge appears poised to block the Trump administration if the Department of Defense attempts to place limitations on or ban transgender service members. U.S. District Judge Ana
Top criminal prosecutor in DC US Attorney's office abruptly resigns amid pressure from Trump officials
J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington, D.C. abruptly resigned Tuesday amid pressure from top Trump Justice Department appointees to freeze assets stemming from a
Judge to consider temporarily blocking Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A judge on Tuesday will consider whether to temporarily block the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs across the federal government, in one of several lawsuits challenging Elon Musk and the
Dramatic video shows moment Delta plane flipped after landing in Toronto
Mert Alper Dervis /Anadolu via Getty Images (TORONTO) — New, dramatic video shows the moment Delta Flight 4819 caught fire and rolled over upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport Monday afternoon. This video — which was given to
Hamas to release 6 more hostages, bodies of 4 others

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Hamas will release six more hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four deceased hostages on Thursday, Hamas and Israel confirmed. Four more dead hostages are expected to be released next week
States with abortion bans see more births but also more infant deaths, studies show

Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New research shows the far-reaching effects of the abortion bans that have proliferated the United States since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022. Three new studies