Wire Service

State’s radiation levels now available online (and testing finds no health threat along West Coast)

By The Associated Press For the latest news from The Associated Press about developments in Japan, click on "Nation/World" in the toolbar at our website… Continue reading

New Wash. liquor privatization initiative filed

By MOLLY ROSBACH The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Backers of a proposal to break the state’s monopoly on booze sales have returned, filing an initiative… Continue reading

UPDATE: State revenue forecast down additional $780 million

The Associated Press OLYMPIA — The state's tax collections are projected to be down an additional $780 million, further deepening the projected budget deficit as… Continue reading

UPDATED — Emissions drop, so Japanese workers returning to stricken nuclear plant

By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA The Associated Press (This story was last updated at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday. Click on "Nation/World" in the toolbar above… Continue reading

This season’s Seattle Mariners TV commercials released — see them here

The Seattle Mariners released their 2011 flight of humorous TV commercials. To see them, go to the Mariners website here: http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?topic_id=16946570&c_id=sea… Continue reading

2nd UPDATE — Harmful radiation is spewing from damaged reactors

By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press SOMA, Japan — Japan's nuclear crisis deepened dramatically Tuesday. As safety officials sought desperately to avert catastrophe,… Continue reading

Hydrogen explosion possible at troubled reactor, Japanese official admits

The Associated Press KORIYAMA, Japan — Japan’s nuclear crisis intensified today as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns and more than… Continue reading

Jaye and Freddie: Rescue creates bond that becomes a tradition

By Matthew Randazzo For Peninsula Daily News EDITOR'S NOTE — Jaye Moore, owner of the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center in Sequim, has loved wildlife… Continue reading

‘Twilight’ actress tweets her own ‘end’

Peninsula Daily News news services TOFINO, British Columbia — With tsunami warnings posted along the West Coast on Friday after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan,… Continue reading

Life on the edge: Former ranger finds wilderness home in West End

By Chiggers Stokes Special to Peninsula Daily News EDITOR’S NOTE — Chiggers Stokes, a former Olympic National Park Ranger who lives off the grid on… Continue reading

Secretary of state warns of scams in tsunami aid; here are well-known aid organizations

The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed said people thinking about donating money in the wake of the deadly earthquake and… Continue reading

‘What if this was us?’ Quake of Japanese magnitude headed here one day, experts say

Peninsula Daily News news sources Relief and dread mingled across the Northwest after the monster earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Although tribes under took precautionary… Continue reading

Hawaii bank starts fund for earthquake victim (and how you can help)

The Associated Press HONOLULU — First Hawaiian Bank has established a relief fund to assist survivors of a deadly 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan and the… Continue reading

4th UPDATE — Tsunami sweeps 5 to sea, rips out Calif. docks. Hawaii largely escapes

By JEFF BARNARD and JAYMES SONG Associated Press CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — A tsunami swept at least five people watching the waves out to sea… Continue reading

Subduction zone quake could also hit North Olympic Peninsula

Peninsula Daily News news services LAPUSH — The same type of tectonic earthquake that hit Japan — involving the collision of plates that make up… Continue reading

Monster Japanese earthquake in region of Port Angeles sister city of Mutsu

Peninsula Daily News news sources FOR THE LATEST updates to this story, click on Nation/World AP news, above TOKYO -- A magnitude 8.9 earthquake slammed… Continue reading

Legislative session at halfway point — and budget deficit remains

By Molly Rosbach The Associated Press OLYMPIA — As the state struggles to climb out of the Great Recession, state lawmakers are focusing on cutting… Continue reading

Are you dangerously losing sleep because of nighttime Internet or TV?

Peninsula Daily News news sources More than one out of three adults gets less than seven hours of sleep a night, and 38 percent report… Continue reading

High winds expected Thursday in Port Townsend area; also, Forks and West End coast

High winds in the San Juans and Whidbey Island, spilling over to Port Townsend and the Quimper Peninsula, as well as the West End coast… Continue reading

It’s official: Obama nominates ex-Gov. Locke for ambassador to China

By Julie Pace The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Hoping to make China more friendly to American business, President Barack Obama today nominated as his top… Continue reading