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New Website Offers Much More New Key Peninsula News website offers fast streaming, eEditions, feature-filled calendar and new feature sections. It's online, it's free and it's easy to use.

Meet Some of Your 2020 Election Candidates Key Peninsula News interviewed candidates for three important local races, asking each: What are your priorities for the KP? What is the No. 1 thing you want to accomplish in office? Why are you qualified to do it?

Auditor Says Pierce County Sets the Standard for Mail-in Voting With over a decade of experience managing vote-by-mail elections, Pierce County Auditor Julie Anderson knows a thing or two about running elections. Other states look to Washington as a leader in …

Key Pen Parks Hires New Executive Director Tracey Perkosky, previously employed by the City of Bothell as parks planning and grants manager before COVID-19 costs and decreasing revenues caused layoffs in June, began her new job as executive …

Vaughn Elementary Welcomes New Principal Vaughn Elementary School has a new principal, Abbie Barabe (pronounced “bear-a-bee”), with an extensive background in the field of elementary education. After earning her …

KPFD Promotes, Assigns Captains to Stations Key Peninsula Fire District 16 promoted three firefighters to lieutenant and three lieutenants to captain at a swearing-in ceremony July 28.