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Deadline nears for nominating your cute pet!

IT'S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever'd friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

The rubber ducks

Prize winners in Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby listed

Today’s Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby prize winners, listed by place, value of prize, type of prize and sponsor, the winner and hometown. 1. $17,804.40,… Continue reading

The rubber ducks
The rubber ducks

Prize winners in Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby listed

Today’s Great Olympic Peninsula Duck Derby prize winners, listed by place, value of prize, type of prize and sponsor, the winner and hometown. 1. $17,804.40,… Continue reading

The rubber ducks

Deadline nears for nominating your cute pet!

IT'S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever'd friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

The Associated Press

Protections for gray wolf may be lifted

The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — The Obama administration today proposed lifting most remaining federal protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a… Continue reading

The Associated Press

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Updated: Federal investigators finish Skagit bridge probe; temporary span construction to start

The Associated Press MOUNT VERNON — Portions of a temporary Interstate 5 bridge could extend over the Skagit River in a day or two and… Continue reading

Esther Williams in 1950.

Swimming, movie star Esther Williams dies

By Bob Thomas The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of… Continue reading

Esther Williams in 1950.

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Great Ethiopian Run coordinator Dagim Teshome will speak at the Port Angeles Library today.

Great Ethiopian Run coordinator to speak at Port Angeles Library

PORT ANGELES — Dagim Teshome will discuss his role as coordinator of the Great Ethiopian Run at the Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St.,… Continue reading

Great Ethiopian Run coordinator Dagim Teshome will speak at the Port Angeles Library today.

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: One year later, liquor taxes, fees bring more money for state

Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Liquor sales in Washington have increased in the year since booze hit the shelves of grocery,… Continue reading

Nominate your cute pet!

IT’S TIME TO nominate your favorite hairy, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever’d friend for the 2013 Peninsula Daily News “Paws & Claws” Cutest Pet Photo… Continue reading

Jean Stapleton

‘All in the Family’s’ Jean Stapleton dies

The Associated Press NEW YORK — Jean Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family," has died. She… Continue reading

Jean Stapleton
Photo courtesy of Ron Garner

225-pound halibut caught in Strait off Sequim

SEQUIM — An Everett-area fisherman pulled in a 75-inch, 225-pound halibut near Sequim on Friday. Our outdoors columnist, Lee Horton, is working on a full… Continue reading

Photo courtesy of Ron Garner
UPDATED — Border entry fee study sparks opposition on Washington state-B.C. border

UPDATED — Border entry fee study sparks opposition on Washington state-B.C. border

By The Associated Press SEATTLE — By Michael Hill’s estimation, 90 percent of the people pumping gas at his station just south of the U.S.-Canada… Continue reading

UPDATED — Border entry fee study sparks opposition on Washington state-B.C. border
This photo shows Alexander Herrera in custody after Alaska Airlines flight 132 landed safely in Portland. (Courtesy: Ryan Oelrich) KOMO-TV

FBI: Man tried to open exit door on Alaska Airlines flight to Oregon

By KOMO-TV, Seattle PORTLAND, Ore. – A man was arrested after he allegedly tried to open an emergency exit door during a flight from Anchorage,… Continue reading

This photo shows Alexander Herrera in custody after Alaska Airlines flight 132 landed safely in Portland. (Courtesy: Ryan Oelrich) KOMO-TV