Tundra River Boutique is Kenai's newest clothing shop. The locally-owned store also specializes in snarky gifts.

This year, the minimum wage is going up twice. On July 1, it’s jumping by more than a dollar – to $13 per hour.

The Kenai Peninsula is home to a number of nonprofit organizations. Even though most of them operate year round, some see an uptick in clients around the holiday season.

The Soldotna City Council enacted the tax about a year ago.

Not everyone owns a vehicle, that's why Red Eye Rides offers shuttle services between communities on or near the Kenai Peninsula. The company receives about 40% of its revenue in the winter, primarily from shipyard workers.

This year, the borough got more than $400,000 from the state to distribute across 26 peninsula communities.

A state-commissioned study says building a pipeline between the North Slope and Southcentral Alaska would be more economic for the state than importing gas from other countries.

For some craft vendors on the central Kenai Peninsula, Soldotna's What Women Want Shopping Expo is the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season. The fundraising event will showcase the wares of several dozen women-run small businesses.