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Report: Climate Change could polarize streamflow patterns

For Olympic Peninsula rivers, climate change could exacerbate seasonal lows and highs in streamflow

Illegal hunting of deer in Ocean Shores continues to be an issue for the coastal city. (David Lang / Unsplash)

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Ocean Shores deals with ongoing illegal hunting problem

The city’s population of well-fed, docile deer are too big a temptation for some.

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Anna Leigh Peterson, foreground, accepts her award from Bette Worth Saturday for first prize in the “group” category at the gingerbread contest, one of the events featured at this year’s WinterFest in downtown Aberdeen.

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Confections, commerce, and Kris Kringle

From reindeer to holiday markets, WinterFest brings buzz to downtown Aberdeen

IAFF Local 2109 / Kara McDermott Members of the Ocean Shores Fire Department carry out a training exercise. The department is currently experiencing an issue getting funding for more staffing, even as call volume appears to be headed in one direction.

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Ocean Shores weighs firefighter staffing issues

An aging and expanding population will keep driving call numbers — and seriousness — up.

(Courtesy of Vivian Dahlin) Vivian Dahlin found this Cackling Goose lying motionless on the beach outside of Ocean Shores. It would later produce the first positive sample of highly-pathogenic bird flu in Grays Harbor County. Other local geese have shown symptoms for the virus but haven't been tested.

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Bird flu detected in Grays Harbor County

Prolonged outbreak in wild birds could signal new course for virus, scientists say

Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World Naloxone, commonly distributed as Narcan, is an opioid antagonist, one of the most effective tools for saving someone from dying of a fatal opioid overdose.

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More powerful opioids beginning to appear in Grays Harbor County

The drugs, present elsewhere nationwide, are more than 100 times more powerful than fentanyl.

The Daily World file photo North Beach school district voters rejected a proposed levy that would’ve funded roof repairs and athletic field improvements at the combined middle school and high school.

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McCleary passes operations levy; North Beach capital levy fails

North Beach seeking alternative funding sources for roof and field fixes

Sylvia Jarrus / The Seattle Times A man sits near the water at the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah in August 2021. Climate change and rising sea levels are forcing the tribe to move homes and other buildings uphill. The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the tribe will receive $25 million in relocation funds.

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Quinault gets $25 million for Taholah relocation

Interior announces $115 million to relocation efforts or planning for tribal communities

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City of Hoquiam approves 3% utility tax increase

The City of Hoquiam approved a tax increase that will affect the water business, stormwater disposal business or…

Come watch Santa Claus’ arrival at Westport Marina’s Float 6 at 10:30 a.m., on Saturday, Dec. 3. Experience Westport

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Grays Harbor celebrates Christmas all month

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Grays Harbor County.

Musem of the North Beach 2023 Historical Calendar produced by the Museum of the North Beach’s cover depicts a one-log load on Moclips resident Clarence Baller’s logging truck.

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North Beach Museum 2023 Historical Calendar available

The 2023 Historical Calendar produced by the Museum of the North Beach is now available.

Grays Harbor Fire Protection District 17 Grays Harbor Fire Protection District 17, which is based in Humptulips, learned Tuesday, Nov. 29 that it’s levy passed by 22 votes.

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Grays Harbor Fire Protection District 17 levy passes by 22 votes

Money to be used to address deferred maintenance and fixing apparatus

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A technician sets a trap for European green crab on a low tide in Willapa Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Trappers found 134,000 green crabs in Willapa Bay in 2022, more than anywhere else in Washington.

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Invasive green crab booming in Willapa Bay

Trappers have caught nearly a quarter million European green crab in Washington waters so far in 2022, and…