What industry is thought to be the fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world — second to the drug trade — at $32 billion a year? The answer: human trafficking, and it’s happening here in Kitsap County.
A car and a pickup burned after a rear-end collision at Highway 305 and Hostmark Street, March 25.
Allen M. Moore September 12, 1950 – March 24, 2016 Allen McMaster Moore was born Sept. 12, 1950 in Everett,…
Loretta Byrnes of Poulsbo has announced her candidacy for 23rd District state representative, position 2.
Washington State Patrol reported that Benjamin A. Harp, 26, was driving a Ford Ranger pickup southbound on State Route 307/Bond Road when it left the roadway to the right at Big Valley Road, struck a guardrail, and came to rest in the ditch.
Former deputy police chief Shawn Delaney, who left the department amid cutbacks in 2010, is serving as public safety director until a new police chief is hired.
New faces in historic district, The Painted Lady is one of two new businesses in Port Gamble
2016 marks landmark anniversaries for some of the organizations that they founded to help each other survive and thrive in their new home: The Sons of Norway Lodge in Poulsbo celebrates its 100th; Martha & Mary celebrates its 125th; the Poulsbo First Lutheran Church is 130 years old.
There’s no way to know if or when a disaster will strike. But you can be prepared. “People always want to know what do you do first after an earthquake or disaster,” said Billie Dunford, volunteer disaster preparedness coordinator for Point No Point View Estates. “I tell them, you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Last spring, I learned my chocolate Lab mix can jump very high. I let her out one morning and before I could finish yelling her name, “Ellie,” she had chased a family of deer out of our yard, over the fence and into the woods.
Strong opener for North Kitsap lacrosse, but state champ Bainbridge prevails 11-9
Despite the rain, the annual Poulsbo Beer Run brought over 600 participants to run the 5k for charity — and beer on March 13.
Jerry Ray Wedel, 71, went to be with the Lord on March 20. He was living at Martha & Mary…
Donald N. Moore October 9, 1928 – March 19, 2016 The Rev. Donald Norman Moore was born on Oct. 9,…
The state Legislature passed a supplemental transportation budget that provides a boost to the Puget Sound ferry service, while funding pay raises to state troopers and providing some fixes to the traffic messes of Interstate 405.
“The Suquamish have a rich cultural and maritime history in the Salish Sea with their ancestral heartland encompassing the north end of Hood Canal and the Olympic Peninsula to Indian Island, the Kitsap Peninsula, and both sides of Admiralty Inlet to the Tacoma Narrows in the south,” Commission Chairman Anne Haley said in an announcement of the naming.
After a 26-day hiring process, the Greater Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce announced the appointment of E. Daniel Barry as its director of operations on March 16. Barry will oversee all elements of board governance, external marketing, strategic event planning, and staff management.
The North Kitsap Fire & Rescue Board of Commissioners will have a public hearing at 7:15 p.m. March 28 on transferring the department’s interests and liabilities in the assets of CenCom to Kitsap County for the reorganization and re-establishment of CenCom as a separate legal entity.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Porter, who drove his car home while intoxicated in October, faced demotion to deputy, suspension without pay for 30 working days, and suspension from his duties as a SWAT team tactical supervisor.
Poulsbo Police Chief Alan Townsend resigned March 14, writing in a statement released by the mayor’s office that “I have become a distraction to the city and more specifically the police department.”
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