People in the Kenai Peninsula Borough can soon text 911 in an emergency; and state law enforcement is spearheading a new advertising campaign as part of a massive effort to curb drug trafficking and overdoses in Alaska.

Finding opportunities to get out in the winter and socialize can be challenging, especially for families, but Homer’s Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies is trying to remedy that; people in the Kenai Peninsula Borough can soon *text* 911 in an emergency; last week, President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law to guarantee the future of Alaska’s only National Heritage Area, along with the more than 50 other areas around the country; and fishermen fighting a court case that threatens to shut down commercial salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska are asking for help from the Sitka Assembly.

Charter operators in the Gulf of Alaska will soon be able to buy halibut quota from willing commercial fishermen; and Homer’s first baby of 2023 was born Wednesday night at South Peninsula Hospital.

Homer’s first baby of the year was born Wednesday night at South Peninsula Hospital; charter operators in the Gulf of Alaska will soon be able to buy halibut quota from willing commercial fishermen; and Alaska’s job market will continue on a path of recovery this year, though it’s still a long way from where it was before the pandemic.

An Alaskan company is expanding Homer’s ability to recycle plastics by turning it into synthetic lumber.

An Alaskan company is expanding Homer’s ability to recycle plastics by turning it into synthetic lumber; 2023 marks one hundred years since the completion of the 470-mile Alaska Railroad from Fairbanks to Seward; and Homer Council on the Arts, Bunnell Street Art Center and the Pratt museum galleries are closed for the month of January.

Last spring, when many Ukrainians were leaving the country, a Homer resident was on his way in with the intent to build large off-grid kitchens to feed Ukrainian refugees.

At a time when many Ukrainians were leaving the country last spring, Homer resident Lucas Wilcox was on his way in, on a train traveling from Poland to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv; last month was the wettest December on record in Anchorage; and applications are open for the 2023 Alaska Youth for Environmental Action Civics & Conservation Summit.

After months of back and forth over a high-profile oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, just one company placed bids in late December.

Officials have arrested a Seward man after he allegedly drove his car, carrying three children, into the Seward boat harbor; after months of back and forth over a high-profile oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, just one company placed bids; and a young climate activist born and raised in Ketchikan was one of two Alaskans named to Forbes’ 2022 “30 Under 30” list.