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New rule bans vessels from releasing sewage into Puget Sound

New rule bans vessels from releasing sewage into Puget Sound

Recreational and commercial vessels will not be able to release treated or untreated sewage into Puget Sound… Continue reading

New rule bans vessels from releasing sewage into Puget Sound
State denies Willapa Bay oyster growers’ request to use pesticide

State denies Willapa Bay oyster growers’ request to use pesticide

State regulators Monday tentatively denied a request by Willapa Bay oyster growers to use a pesticide to… Continue reading

State denies Willapa Bay oyster growers’ request to use pesticide

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Has news that a data mining company harvested Facebook users’ private information changed how you use the social media platform?… Continue reading

  • Apr 10, 2018
Expansion of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline in doubt

Expansion of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline in doubt

Kinder Morgan’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from… Continue reading

Expansion of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline in doubt

Beef cattle feedlot settles with state in air pollution case

A company that operates a beef cattle feedlot in southeastern Washington has reached a settlement with the state over a… Continue reading

For defenders and judges, comfort dogs in court do opposite

For defenders and judges, comfort dogs in court do opposite

As dogs and other animals are increasingly used in courts to comfort and calm prosecution witnesses,… Continue reading

For defenders and judges, comfort dogs in court do opposite

LETTER: Time to amend Constitution for gun ownership

I believe it is time to emphasize the language in the first phrase of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. It… Continue reading

Workers’ radiation exposure halts nuke plant demolition

Workers’ radiation exposure halts nuke plant demolition

Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at… Continue reading

Workers’ radiation exposure halts nuke plant demolition
Body suspected to be from California cliff crash found

Body suspected to be from California cliff crash found

A body was recovered Saturday in the vicinity where an SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff last month,… Continue reading

Body suspected to be from California cliff crash found

LETTER: NRA not to blame for school shootings

So now it’s the National Rifle Association’s fault for all the school shootings because they support congressmen (and women). Well, isn’t that just about as… Continue reading

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North Korea says Kim Jong Un is ready to discuss his nuclear weapons with President Donald Trump. Do you support such a summit?… Continue reading

  • Apr 8, 2018

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Olympic Medical Center named a top 20 rural hospital … and other items

The National Rural Health Association named Olympic Medical Center again to its Top 20 Rural Community Hospital list. The awardees were hospitals… Continue reading

LETTER: A modest proposal for Sequim’s letter ‘e’

Here is an idea which can be either fun to think about, or perhaps even dabble with, providing some light-hearted approach to April Fools Day:.… Continue reading

LETTER: Don’t stop in roundabouts, traffic circles

I see the county wants to install a traffic circle at Woodcock and Sequim Dungeness. I am all for it, but there are still too… Continue reading

LETTER: Give children a chance to celebrate their lives

The comment by the March 29 letter “Signs are too easy” is worthy of a response. She has a concept that there are people out… Continue reading

LETTER: Military preparedness holds enemies at bay

It’s difficult to read columns like Charles Blow’s “Donald Trump: Man at War” (PDN, 3/27) and believe that any rational person could actually write such… Continue reading

LETTER: Trump should resign or be impeached

Back on course Thomas Friedman’s column, “What Trump, Putin Have in Common” (PDN, March 19), stirred deeply imprinted childhood memories of World War II. In… Continue reading

Cool jazz: Bowhead whales improvise when singing, study says

Cool jazz: Bowhead whales improvise when singing, study says

Some whales are taking jazz riffs to new depths. For the first time, scientists have eavesdropped year-round… Continue reading

Cool jazz: Bowhead whales improvise when singing, study says
Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Twenty-six times over, it’s safe to say “Ready Player One” was Robby Streett’s favorite book. The nostalgic science fiction romp by Ernest Cline… Continue reading

Continuing Robby’s legacy: Streett family remember Robby at showing of ‘Ready Player One’

Kent man charged in fatality in which woman stopped to help stranded motorist

A 33-year-old Kent man has been charged with felony hit and run in the fatality of a Belfair resident who had stopped to… Continue reading