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SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: A few answers to questions about gay marriage, domestic partnerships

Peninsula Daily News and news sources Second of two parts EDITOR'S NOTE: This article concludes a two-part report, begun Sunday, on the new same-sex marriage… Continue reading

URGENT: Winds of up to 57 mph forecast for West End, Admiralty Inlet areas — other weather warnings tonight and Tuesday for North Olympic Peninsula

Here are the latest advisories for the next wave of foul weather on the North Olympic Peninsula. The most urgent is this for the West… Continue reading

President John Adams presidential $1 coin. The Associated Press

Here we go again! Congress looks at scrapping $1 bill (and did you know a nickel now costs 11 cents to make?)

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may… Continue reading

President John Adams presidential $1 coin. The Associated Press

NEW MARIJUANA LAW: State officials seek pot expertise

By MIKE BAKER The Associated Press OLYMPIA — State officials tasked with developing a legal marijuana industry in Washington state have a problem: There's no… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund

Peninsula Home Fund

EDITOR’S NOTE: For 24 years, Peninsula Daily News readers in Jefferson and Clallam counties have supported the “hand up, not a handout” Peninsula Home Fund.… Continue reading

Peninsula Home Fund

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: No U.S. Supreme Court action yet over gay marriage

By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three… Continue reading

A loaded logging truck heads down the road in the forest near Banks

U.S. Supreme Court will decide how logging roads will be regulated

By JEFF BARNARD The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years… Continue reading

A loaded logging truck heads down the road in the forest near Banks
Snow obscures this Hurricane Ridge webcam scene of the parking lot

Snowy time in Olympics; Hurricane Ridge open, but lodge services not operating

The National Weather Service issued this advisory for the Olympic Mountains. The Hurricane Ridge Road recording by Olympic National Park (360-565-3131) and checked at 11… Continue reading

Snow obscures this Hurricane Ridge webcam scene of the parking lot

Lawsuit contemplated to challenge state’s new Dungeness water rule

By Martha M. Ireland For Peninsula Daily News THE IN-STREAM FLOW rule for WRIA 18 East — the Dungeness water resource inventory area — that’s… Continue reading

National Weather Service warns on unusual high tides in Port Townsend

Port Townsend and the Hood Canal area are included in this coastal flood advisory issued by the National Weather Service: COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER… Continue reading

URGENT: High-tide, storm advisories issued for east, west edges of the Peninsula, including Port Townsend, LaPush

The National Weather Service has issued these advisories for Port Townsend and the Hood Canal areas as well as the West End's Pacific coast. East… Continue reading

Powerball numbers are drawn Wednesday night. The Associated Press

Winning $588 million Powerball tickets sold in Arizona, Missouri

The Associated Press Two lucky ticket holders — one in Arizona and another in Missouri — are waking up today to new lives as multimillionaires… Continue reading

Powerball numbers are drawn Wednesday night. The Associated Press
BREAKING: Here are the winning Powerball numbers for the $579.9 million jackpot

BREAKING: Here are the winning Powerball numbers for the $579.9 million jackpot

The numbers have been drawn for the record Powerball jackpot and the wait for winners — if any — has begun. The numbers drawn tonight… Continue reading

BREAKING: Here are the winning Powerball numbers for the $579.9 million jackpot
Fishers from Canada have been reintroduced into Olympic National Park.  -- Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

COMING TOMORROW: Weasel-like fisher could be put on endangered list

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists will begin studying next year whether the fisher, a weasel-like mammal recently reintroduced to Olympic… Continue reading

Fishers from Canada have been reintroduced into Olympic National Park.  -- Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Justice Department won’t appeal Port Angeles terrorist’s sentence

SEATTLE — The federal Justice Department said today it will not appeal the 37-year prison sentence of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian terrorist who was captured… Continue reading

National Weather Service warns on unusual high tides in Port Townsend

Port Townsend and the Hood Canal area are included in this coastal flood advisory issued by the National Weather Service: COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER… Continue reading

Victoria sewage treatment project won’t be postponed till 2040

Peninsula Daily News news sources VICTORIA — After three hours of debate and staff presentations, Capital Regional District directors rejected a motion to delay a… Continue reading

Record Powerball jackpot rises to $500 million

Record Powerball jackpot rises to $500 million

The Associated Press The historic Powerball jackpot boosted to $500 million today was all part of a plan lottery officials put in place early this… Continue reading

Record Powerball jackpot rises to $500 million
Mr. Floatie stands at the edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Mr. Floatie re-emerges as Victoria sewage treatment might be delayed until 2040

Peninsula Daily News and news sources THE WALKING COMEDIC symbol of Victoria's raw-sewage outfalls into the Strait of Juan de Fuca made his first public… Continue reading

Mr. Floatie stands at the edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS: Clallam County

The spirit of the holiday season has begun in Clallam County. Above, Dutch Draper, 3, of Sequim talks to Santa Claus, who resembles Joe Borden… Continue reading

Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News