Grassroots organization Homer Drawdown is meeting this evening to choose a project reducing community carbon emission for the year, and a storm from the Bering Sea, which slapped the Seward Peninsula the past week, has canceled school and flights in some western Alaskan communities, including Nome.

Grassroots organization Homer Drawdown is meeting tomorrow evening to choose a project reducing community carbon emission for the year. After leading the Kenai Central High School volleyball team to a state championship, senior Emma Beck was recently awarded the Gatorade Player of the Year for the state of Alaska.

A bill before the Alaska legislature aims to help working families move off of food stamps by allowing their incomes to rise while benefiting from the program, and Alaska State Troopers arrested a Soldotna man the night of January 2nd on charges of terroristic threatening, harassment and stalking after he threatened to kill his wife and their dog.

Residents and business owners filled council chambers last week [1/3] as the Homer Planning Commission moved forward with several big decisions on a proposed hotel complex.

Residents and business owners filled council chambers last week [1/3] as the Homer Planning Commission moved forward with several big decisions on a proposed hotel complex, and honeybees are not native to Alaska. And many beekeepers in the state *don’t* try to keep bees alive through the long winter. They kill their bees when winter starts and order new bees when the weather warms. But one Anchorage beekeeper has learned how to help his colonies survive to see spring.

A new committee created to explore a possible four-day school week in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District had its first meeting yesterday; Alaska State Troopers responded to a disturbance at a residence on Island Lake Road in Nikiski last Tuesday; and first-term Republican Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, who represents most of the central Kenai Peninsula, has already prefiled four bills for the upcoming session.

Continuing a nearly 40-year tradition, residents and visitors of Seward are preparing for the annual plunge into the icy waters of Resurrection Bay, and a new committee created to explore a possible four-day school week in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District had its first meeting yesterday.

Former Arkansas state senator Bob Ballinger will join state representative Sarah Vance in Juneau for the upcoming legislative session. Alaska's fisheries play a crucial role in the national seafood industry, attracting both commercial and sport fishermen. However, the industry faces a high occupational fatality rate, approximately 20 times higher than the national average. Alaskans can now apply for their 2024 Permanent Fund Dividends, after the filing period opened Monday.

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge will begin hosting a wintertime speaker series this Wednesday at the Refuge Visitor Center in Soldotna. The “Ways of Knowing” series will spotlight topics related to the outdoors through the month of March. Attorneys delivered oral arguments yesterday in a perjury case for a retired Homer judge.

The Homer City Council created new departments by passing an ordinance introduced last summer, and attorneys delivered oral arguments yesterday in a perjury case for a retired Homer judge.