Site Logo
Danielle Gilchrist, left, with her daughter Aeva and mother Marie Carins in front of Gigi’s Emporium PNW. Together they own Gigi’s Emporium and manage both locations on opposite sides of the country.<em> (Courtesy photo)</em>

Business

At Gigi’s, family comes first

New Port Orchard consignment and boutique business has sister location in North Carolina

Port Orchard, South Kitsap take good with the bad in 2017

News

Port Orchard, South Kitsap take good with the bad in 2017

The year 2017 was a sometimes tumultuous, always eventful 12 months

Port Orchard foster children were invited to The Riding Place to meet and even ride horses, as well as Santa.                                Michelle Beahm / Kitsap News Group

Life

Horses bring ‘unfiltered emotion’ to foster children

PORT ORCHARD — For some, horses are life. For others, they could grow up never even seeing a…

The stories that shaped South Kitsap | Port Orchard Independent

News

The stories that shaped South Kitsap | Port Orchard Independent

A look at the first half of 2017

158 children get presents because Port Orchard Cares | Slideshow

Life

158 children get presents because Port Orchard Cares | Slideshow

The Port Orchard and South Kitsap rotaries and Soroptimists International provide food, gifts.

A Port Orchard legend departs

Opinion

A Port Orchard legend departs

Bryan Petro: Boisterous, positive and proud of his community.

Port Orchard community activist, historian Bryan Petro dies

News

Port Orchard community activist, historian Bryan Petro dies

South Kitsap booster was a ‘one of a kind’

SKSD boundary review committee proposes moving 391 students to different elementary schools

News

SKSD boundary review committee proposes moving 391 students to different elementary schools

PORT ORCHARD — To combat overcrowding in its elementary schools, the South Kitsap School District is working to…

News

Be careful: Rent thieves are at work in South Kitsap

PORT ORCHARD — Several reports of rental payment drop boxes being tampered with and rental payments being stolen…

South Kitsap falls to Olympia in home opener | Boys basketball

Sports

South Kitsap falls to Olympia in home opener | Boys basketball

Deante Ward led the Wolves with 19 points.

News

Fleeing the law, Bremerton driver collides into utility pole

SOUTH KITSAP — A 29-year-old Bremerton man was injured Dec. 4 when his vehicle crashed into a mailbox…

Thomas Loren Phelps

Obituaries

Thomas Loren Phelps

PORT ORCHARD — Thomas Loren Phelps of Port Orchard passed away unexpectedly on Nov. 29.

A truck hauling a trailer with an excavator aboard overturned in the eastbound lanes of SR 16 at SR 160 Monday afternoon Dec. 4. Washington State Patrol Trooper Russ Winger said the trailer and excavator had been stolen. (Photo: Washington State Patrol)

News

Truck hauling stolen trailer, excavator overturns on SR 16

SOUTH KITSAP — A truck towing a stolen trailer carrying an excavator overturned Dec. 4 in the eastbound…

News

Bremerton driver collides into utility pole while fleeing police

PORT ORCHARD — A 29-year-old Bremerton man was injured Dec. 4 when his vehicle crashed into a mailbox…

News

Knife fight at SK party sends two to hospital

SOUTH KITSAP — An out-of-control house party in South Kitsap Nov. 17 resulted in stabbing injuries to two…

News

One injury in a three-car crash

PORT ORCHARD — One person was injured in a three-car collision 11:11 p.m. Nov. 13 on State Route…

Donna Gaskill with her dogs, Sailor and Oliver, at the Washington Veterans Home in Retsil. The residents held a contest and voted on Sailor’s name. Both dogs help residents and staff alike destress.                                Michelle Beahm / Kitsap News Group

Life

Dog helps Retsil Veterans Home residents, staff

PORT ORCHARD — Hello, Sailor.

Toy drive for ill children at it again this year

Life

Toy drive for ill children at it again this year

BREMERTON — Last year, Zachary Darner, 8, and a friend collected 259 toys — more than five times…

Fugitive believed to be in Port Orchard area

News

Fugitive believed to be in Port Orchard area

PORT ORCHARD — A convicted, “high-violent” offender is on the loose and believed to be in the Port…

Felicidades! SKSD Spanish Immersion instructor named ‘Evening Magazine’ Best Teacher

News

Felicidades! SKSD Spanish Immersion instructor named ‘Evening Magazine’ Best Teacher

PORT ORCHARD — Michael Anderson’s fourth-grade Spanish Immersion class at Burley Glenwood Elementary in Port Orchard did something…