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Behind-the-scenes changes at your newspaper

Behind-the-scenes changes at your newspaper

The management of the Peninsula Daily News, the weekly Sequim Gazette and weekly Forks Forum has been reorganized to better serve readers and advertisers. The… Continue reading

Behind-the-scenes changes at your newspaper
Springer

Springer, the orca who made headlines as an orphan 11 years ago, with child

By David Reynolds Peninsula Daily News She's one of the best-known orcas on the West Coast. Her life story was already known as an “unprecedented… Continue reading

Springer
Washington State Patrol

Have you seen this El Camino involved in hit-run near Port Townsend?

From the Washington State Patrol: PORT TOWNSEND — Troopers who responded to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of state Highways 19 and 20 on… Continue reading

Washington State Patrol
HURRY! Deadline noon today for voting for the 2013 Best of the Peninsula accolades

HURRY! Deadline noon today for voting for the 2013 Best of the Peninsula accolades

Today at noon is the absolutely final deadline to vote for the Best of the Peninsula 2013 in separate Clallam County and Jefferson County voting.… Continue reading

HURRY! Deadline noon today for voting for the 2013 Best of the Peninsula accolades
Video and photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

PICTURE PERFECT: Soothing waters of Marymere Falls — an Olympic National Park video moment

In the still photo at right, Olympic National Park visitors gaze at spectacular 90-foot Marymere Falls from the viewpoint at the end of a well-maintained… Continue reading

Video and photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Washington State Patrol

Have you seen this El Camino involved in hit-run near Port Townsend?

From the Washington State Patrol: PORT TOWNSEND — Troopers who responded to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of state Highways 19 and 20 on… Continue reading

Washington State Patrol
Deadline tomorrow in voting for 2013 Best of the Peninsula

Deadline tomorrow in voting for 2013 Best of the Peninsula

Tomorrow — Wednesday, July 10, noon — is the absolutely final deadline to vote for the Best of the Peninsula 2013 in separate Clallam County… Continue reading

Deadline tomorrow in voting for 2013 Best of the Peninsula
Jeanne Socrates sites aboard her sailboat Nereida in Victoria’s Inner Harbor prior to the launch of her around-the-world trip

Grandma, 70, completes round-the-world solo trip in sailboat in Victoria

Peninsula Daily News news sources VICTORIA — Jeanne Socrates, a retired schoolteacher from England who set out from Inner Harbour last October to sail around… Continue reading

Jeanne Socrates sites aboard her sailboat Nereida in Victoria’s Inner Harbor prior to the launch of her around-the-world trip
Tonto (Johnny Depp

‘The Lone Ranger’: a ho-hum hi-yo Silver stumbles at the box office (what’s your opinion of this new movie?)

By Brooks Barnes c.2013 New York Times News Service NEW YORK — Tumbleweeds blew through theaters playing “The Lone Ranger” over the weekend, calling into… Continue reading

Tonto (Johnny Depp
Deadline extended to Wednesday for voting in Best of the Peninsula 2013

Deadline extended to Wednesday for voting in Best of the Peninsula 2013

Forget to vote for Best of the Peninsula 2013 in separate Clallam County and Jefferson County voting? No problem: Today's deadline has been extended to… Continue reading

Deadline extended to Wednesday for voting in Best of the Peninsula 2013
Canoe Journey participants practice tipping over their canoes in the Makah Marina in Neah Bay during a training session hosted by the Makah and Hoh tribes. Debbie Ross-Preston

Tipping over canoes part of Tribal Canoe Journey training (*Photo Gallery*)

By Debbie Ross-Preston For Peninsula Daily News NEAH BAY — As more than 100 tribal canoe crews prepare to paddle to the Quinault tribe's homelands… Continue reading

Canoe Journey participants practice tipping over their canoes in the Makah Marina in Neah Bay during a training session hosted by the Makah and Hoh tribes. Debbie Ross-Preston
New York TImes report: In secret, court vastly broadens powers of N.S.A

New York TImes report: In secret, court vastly broadens powers of N.S.A

By ERIC LICHTBLAU Copyright 2013 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created… Continue reading

New York TImes report: In secret, court vastly broadens powers of N.S.A
Deadline extended to Wednesday for voting in Best of the Peninsula 2013

Deadline extended to Wednesday for voting in Best of the Peninsula 2013

Forget to vote for Best of the Peninsula 2013 in separate Clallam County and Jefferson County voting? No problem: Today's deadline has been extended to… Continue reading

Deadline extended to Wednesday for voting in Best of the Peninsula 2013
Photographer Ernest-Ulrich Shafer takes a photo at the intersection of Washington Street and Sequim Avenue on Friday in downtown Sequim. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News

Everybody says cheese for Sequim community picture

SEQUIM — Sequim's citizenry held up the peace sign en masse as photographer Ernst-Ulrich Shafer took a picture of the city for its 100th birthday… Continue reading

Photographer Ernest-Ulrich Shafer takes a photo at the intersection of Washington Street and Sequim Avenue on Friday in downtown Sequim. Joe Smillie/Peninsula Daily News
Bereket Piatt won the Class 1A state cross-country championship as a junior at Port Townsend High School in 2009.

Former Port Townsend running star sentenced to prison

Peninsula Daily News News Sources EVERETT — A Snohomish County judge sentenced former Port Townsend High School cross-country standout Bere­ket Piatt to five years in… Continue reading

Bereket Piatt won the Class 1A state cross-country championship as a junior at Port Townsend High School in 2009.
Bereket Piatt won the Class 1A state cross-country championship as a junior at Port Townsend High School in 2009.

Former Port Townsend running star sentenced to prison

Peninsula Daily News News Sources EVERETT — A Snohomish County judge sentenced former Port Townsend High School cross-country standout Bere­ket Piatt to five years in… Continue reading

Bereket Piatt won the Class 1A state cross-country championship as a junior at Port Townsend High School in 2009.
The crash of an Asiana Airlines jetliner forced passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. The Associated Press

UPDATE — Two people dead and more than 100 sent to hospitals after San Francisco plane crash

By New York Times News Service via Peninsula Daily News AT LEAST TWO people after an Asiana jetliner from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing… Continue reading

The crash of an Asiana Airlines jetliner forced passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. The Associated Press
The liquor board's proposed label for marijuana products was nixed. The Associated Press

Field-grown marijuana allowed in state’s proposed regulations

By Shannon Dininny The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Marijuana could be grown outdoors in the sunshine — no grow lights or greenhouses required — under… Continue reading

The liquor board's proposed label for marijuana products was nixed. The Associated Press
What are your picks for Best of the Peninsula? Vote now!

What are your picks for Best of the Peninsula? Vote now!

It's time to vote for Best of the Peninsula 2013 in separate Clallam County and Jefferson County voting! For the second straight year, all voting… Continue reading

What are your picks for Best of the Peninsula? Vote now!
What are your picks for Best of the Peninsula? Vote now!

What are your picks for Best of the Peninsula? Vote now!

It's time to vote for Best of the Peninsula 2013 in separate Clallam County and Jefferson County voting! For the second straight year, all voting… Continue reading

What are your picks for Best of the Peninsula? Vote now!