On the Summer Solstice, Homer Senior Citizens held a fashion show for seniors and the community; and there’s long been talk about how to make the highway between Kenai and Soldotna safer, but residents along the road have clashed with the state over the best way to do that.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has extended the youth-only king salmon fishery in Seward until the end of July; and dipnetting on the Kasilof River opened Tuesday.

The Alaska Division of Forestry is seeking space at the Soldotna Airport to migrate its existing base. The division applied for a lease in April proposing new construction of a warehouse, firefighter standby space and an administrative building. Also, the new parent company of the Central Kenai Peninsula’s newspaper, The Peninsula Clarion, is reducing the paper to just once-a-week printing.

Homer’s planning commission is going to reconsider a housing project for South Peninsula Hospital after narrowly approving it at their Wednesday [June 19] meeting; and several years after two crab fisheries disasters occurred in the Norton Sound and Bering Sea, millions in relief funds are finally available to impacted fishermen.

The Homer Planning Commission will reconsider a housing project for South Peninsula Hospital after narrowly approving it at their Wednesday, June 19 meeting. Also, several years after two crab fisheries disasters occurred in the Norton Sound and Bering Sea, millions in relief funds are finally available to impacted fishermen.

The City of Kenai is planning to apply for money to help incentivize new airport services, including a direct flight to Seattle. Two men, including a senior Alaska-based Air Force officer, were found dead yesterday after their crashed plane was pulled from a Kenai Peninsula lake.

A Homer man was convicted on multiple counts of sexual assault last week; and the fate of a bed tax ballot question remains in limbo after Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.

A Homer man was convicted on multiple counts of sexual assault last week; and the fate of a bed tax ballot question remains in limbo after Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved a hospital bond that will go on the ballot this October. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will increase the sockeye salmon bag and possession limit for the Resurrection River and nearby salt waters of Resurrection Bay. Use of salt brine on Kenai Peninsula roads was reduced by about 60% last winter in response to local concerns about the brine’s corrosive qualities. That’s according to Alaska Department of Transportation officials, who joined Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche for a debrief Monday about how maintenance crews treated roads this season.

The Homer City Council narrowed down a hefty list of applicants for the city manager position to three candidates at June 17th's meeting, and use of salt brine on Kenai Peninsula roads was reduced by about 60% last winter in response to local concerns about the brine’s corrosive qualities. That’s according to Alaska Department of Transportation officials, who joined Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche for a debrief Monday about how maintenance crews treated roads this season.