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Logger Eric Davis runs down a road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in a forest area near Banks

Group to keep pressing EPA on logging roads

By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A conservation group says it will keep pushing federal authorities to more closely regulate muddy… Continue reading

Logger Eric Davis runs down a road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in a forest area near Banks
Logger Eric Davis runs down a road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in a forest area near Banks

Group to keep pressing EPA on logging roads

By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A conservation group says it will keep pushing federal authorities to more closely regulate muddy… Continue reading

Logger Eric Davis runs down a road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in a forest area near Banks
Powerball jackpot rises to $320 million

Powerball jackpot rises to $320 million

NOBODY PLAYING POWERBALL lotto in Washington state and 44 other lottery jurisdictions hit all six numbers Wednesday night, meaning that Saturday night’s game has a… Continue reading

Powerball jackpot rises to $320 million
Volunteer Aaron Velasquez disperses some of the 1

Elwha revegetation crews sow seeds this month in former lakes Mills, Aldwell

IT'S SPRING, AND the Elwha revegetation crew is busy this month, sowing about 1,400 pounds of native plant seeds in former lakes Mills and Aldwell,… Continue reading

Volunteer Aaron Velasquez disperses some of the 1
Jay J. Dodaro Clallam County Sheriff's Office

Fugitive captured in Sequim area

SEQUIM — A wanted fugitive who the Clallam County Sheriff's Office feared that he might want to "shoot it out with police" has been captured… Continue reading

Jay J. Dodaro Clallam County Sheriff's Office
Booth Gardner

UPDATED — Former Gov. Booth Gardner dies at 76

By Rachel La Corte The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Booth Gardner was a two-term governor whose biggest political effort came long after he left the… Continue reading

Booth Gardner
10,000 dead predicted in chilling forecast on NW quake/tsunami

10,000 dead predicted in chilling forecast on NW quake/tsunami

By Lauren Gambino The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — More than 10,000 people could die when — not if — a monster earthquake and tsunami… Continue reading

10,000 dead predicted in chilling forecast on NW quake/tsunami
South Korean Marines on Yeonpyeong Island recently. The North bombarded the island in 2010

U.S. to bolster missile defense to deter any attack by North Korea

By New York Times News Service, via Peninsula Daily News staff THE UNITED STATES will deploy additional ballistic-missile interceptors along the Pacific Coast to increase… Continue reading

South Korean Marines on Yeonpyeong Island recently. The North bombarded the island in 2010
Mitch Seavey holds one of his lead dogs

Is mushing limited by age? Only if you have 4 legsI

By MARK THIESSEN and RACHEL D'ORO The Associated Press NOME, Alaska — Last year, the youngest musher ever to win Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog… Continue reading

Mitch Seavey holds one of his lead dogs
Pope Francis

First-ever pope from Americas: Argentine takes name Francis I

The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe… Continue reading

Pope Francis

Man arrested after rolling car on Highway 20

PORT TOWNSEND — A suspected drunken driver failed to negotiate a curve and overturned the car he was driving, partly blocking the main road between… Continue reading

Port Angeles High School orchestra achieves honors at regional fest

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School Chamber Orchestra won first place in its division, and the all-freshmen Concert Orchestra took second in a… Continue reading

Anquan Boldin

Seahawks to give up key draft picks for playmaker Harvin; Boldin heading to 49ers

By Dave Campbell and Jon Krawczynski The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Percy Harvin is headed to Seattle, and Adrian Peterson isn't happy about it. Harvin,… Continue reading

Anquan Boldin
Smoke from a crashed military plane from NAS Whidbey Island rises from a farm field  in Eastern Washington this morning. KOMO

Military plane from Whidbey Island station crashes in Eastern Washington [**Updated**]

By KOMO News HARRINGTON -- A military plane flying from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island has crashed in Lincoln County, and officials believe all three… Continue reading

Smoke from a crashed military plane from NAS Whidbey Island rises from a farm field  in Eastern Washington this morning. KOMO
Site of the crash of the Whidbey Island-based Navy EA-6B Prowler. Courtesy of Stan Damme

2nd UPDATE – Navy plane from NAS Whidbey crashes in Eastern Washington. Crew of 3 dead.

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS The Associated Press SPOKANE — An aircraft from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island crashed in Eastern Washington on Monday morning, and… Continue reading

Site of the crash of the Whidbey Island-based Navy EA-6B Prowler. Courtesy of Stan Damme
Percy Harvin following Minnesota's defeat of the Seattle Seahawks at then Qwest Field in 2009. The Associated Press

Seahawks reportedly getting playmaker Harvin from Vikings

Peninsula Daily News news sources According to a report by Jay Glazer of Fox Sports, the Seattle Seahawks have made a trade for Minnesota receiver… Continue reading

Percy Harvin following Minnesota's defeat of the Seattle Seahawks at then Qwest Field in 2009. The Associated Press

TRAFFIC ALERT: Crash at Highway 20 intersection in East Jefferson County

We have reports of alternating one-way traffic on state Highway 20 at Eaglemount Road — between U.S. 101 and Port Townsend — following a rollover… Continue reading

PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: South Dakota becomes latest state to arm schoolteachers

The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed into law a measure allowing the state’s school districts to arm teachers… Continue reading

An undated photograph of Dianna Hanson The Associated Press

UPDATED — Family says death of Snohomish County woman in lion cage was an accident

By GOSIA WOZNIACKA and TRACIE CONE The Associated Press EDITOR'S NOTE — To follow this story and other national-international news, go to the "Nation/World" button… Continue reading

An undated photograph of Dianna Hanson The Associated Press
President Barack Obama

North Olympic Peninsula tribal leaders attend Obama’s bill-signing in D.C.

Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Several tribal leaders from the North Olympic Peninsula were among those present for President Barack Obama's… Continue reading

President Barack Obama