Peninsula Daily News

Sports: Neah Bay loses in district playoff game

SEATTLE -- The reining Class B state boys basketball champions delayed the celebration for the Neah Bay Red Devils in the Tri-District playoffs Tuesday night… Continue reading

Sports: Rally today sends off Peninsula College basketball team to leage tourney

PORT ANGELES -- The sendoff party for the Peninsula College men's basketball team to the league championship tournament is today starting at noon. The general… Continue reading

Jefferson: County commissioner to announce re-election bid

Jefferson County Commissioner Dan Titterness is expected to announce his bid for re-election Thursday. Titterness, R-Port Townsend, will keynote the Jefferson County Republican Party meeting… Continue reading

Sequim: School Board to discuss budget cuts tonight

The Sequim School Board will hold a special meeting tonight to consider program cuts deemed necessary by the recent failure of a $5.44 million maintenance… Continue reading

Sequim: Shopping center issue goes to court today – A land-use case challenging the construction of a regional shopping center in Sequim is scheduled for trial at 1:30 p.m. today in Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles.

Citizens group Sequim First filed the suit last September against the city of Sequim and AVB Development Partners, an Arizona-based developer proposing a 395,000-square-foot shopping… Continue reading

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife and other agencies will hold a forum on the future of Sequim-Dungeness Valley’s elk herd today.

The forum in Guy Cole Convention Center at Carrie Black Park, 201 N. Blake Ave., will open with information booths staffed from 1 p.m. to… Continue reading

Peninsula: Emissions pour from visiting vessels

For every day it's anchored or docked in a harbor, a cargo ship's smokestacks can spew as much nitrogen oxide into the air as 12,500… Continue reading

Hercules the lobster becomes a Maine attraction

Hercules, the 14-pound lobster, continues to find acclaim as he is reintroduced to his Atlantic habitat from a Port Angeles supermarket's lobster tank. A short… Continue reading

Port Angeles-based Coast Guard helicopter jettisons door

A door on an HH-65A Dolphin helicopter stationed at Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles fell into Puget Sound during a training exercise Wednesday. There… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Town meeting on golf course future, proposed arts center tonight

The city will host a community forum at 6:30 p.m. today at the Fort Worden State Park Commons to discuss the future of the Port… Continue reading

Sequim: School Board members discuss — but don’t act on — another levy election

Sequim School Board members said Tuesday night that more information and time are needed before considering another maintenance and operations tax levy election this year.… Continue reading

Sports: Forks girls land berth in district tourney

FORKS -- The Forks girls basketball team ripped Rochester 72-44 to capture a berth in the district tournament and just as importantly are a win… Continue reading

Sports: Peninsula College goes for league title

PORT ANGELES -- The Peninsula College men's basketball team can wrap up the division championship for the first time in four years with a win… Continue reading

Cancer center raises spirits with artwork; oncologist, glass workers add light to treatment room

SEQUIM -- The first of three colorful patterned glass panels has been installed in the treatment room of Olympic Medical Radiation Oncology Center. The panel… Continue reading

Locke drops plan to get Legislature’s blessing for 1-cent sales tax hike for schools

Gov. Gary Locke on Monday abandoned efforts to persuade state lawmakers to approve a $1 billion tax increase for education. He said he"ll turn his… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Look for higher water pressure in Morgan Hill area

A $1.1 million pumping station to increase water pressure in Port Townsend's Morgan Hill area is expected to go online Thursday. Fire hydrants and about… Continue reading

Port Townsend: Planning under way for Victorian Festival

PORT TOWNSEND -- The 8th annual Victorian Festival is scheduled March 18-21 as Port Townsend is transported back to its Victorian seaport roots. "Celebrate Our… Continue reading

Sequim: Teen places third in essay contest

SEQUIM -- KatieRose Needham, 14, an eighth-grader at Sequim Adventist School, won third-place in the Washington state "Patriot Pens Youth Essay Competition"' sponsored by the… Continue reading

Hood Canal: Oxygen concerns choke off fishing again

Still nervous about low oxygen levels, state officials on Tuesday will again close Hood Canal to most fishing. "The levels of dissolved oxygen are very… Continue reading

Sports: Port Angeles loss ends Roughrider season

GIG HARBOR -- "It was one of those nights where nothing seemed to be right,"' Port Angeles coach Lee Sinnes said of the Roughriders' 42-31… Continue reading