An official from the Japanese consulate in Seattle has visited the home of a Port Angeles man to inspect a large black float he found near Neah Bay to determine if it's some of the first debris from the tsunami that hit Japan last March.

PORT ANGELES — An official from the Japanese consulate in Seattle has visited the home of a Port Angeles man to inspect a large black float he found near Neah Bay to determine if it’s some of the first debris from the tsunami that hit Japan last March. People think it’s a float from an oyster farm near Sendai. Arnold Schouten found it in December at an isolated beach near Neah Bay.

Give Neah Bay schools their due: This is a response to the letter by Richard L. Carlsen in the Jan. 12 edition of The Wenatchee World.

The moment of truth, when it came, was on the slick, rain-soaked Route 122 that wriggles between Neah Bay and Port Angeles, Washington, along the shoreline of the Juan de Fuca Straight.

SEATTLE - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurred off the coast of Vancouver Island on Saturday afternoon, the USGS reports. The quake occurred at 12:05 p.m. It was centered about 217 miles west of Vancouver, B.C. and 153 miles west-northwest of Neah Bay, Wash. The depth was 8 miles. The USGS website "Did you feel it" page received reports from Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. as well as from Lopez ...

State Fish and Wildlife recommendations forecast fishing similar to 2011.

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PORTLAND - Within a month, items lost in the Japanese tsunami last year should start washing ashore on the Oregon Coast, according to scientists. Experts said debris would be washing up all year long. Debris in the ocean that arrives in the fall and winter will get pushed up further north by the currents to Washington, British Columbia and even Alaska. "Wind, rain and salt spray have been ...

SEATTLE (AP) — How a state panel of sports writers rates Washington high school basketball teams in the weekly Associated Press poll of 2012, by WIAA divisions, with won-lost record and total points (first-place votes in parentheses): Others receiving votes: Federal Way 5. Gonzaga Prep 4. Kentwood 2. Inglemoor 1.