Representatives from Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office toured the central Kenai Peninsula this week to promote his omnibus education package. Kodiak residents are among the latest to be fired by the federal government amid national cuts.

Ravn Alaska will end flights to Homer after Monday; the 2025 Anchor Point Snow Rondi began Tuesday and runs through the weekend; and the Kenai Peninsula Lost Lake on-line run registration opens tomorrow.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly members on Tuesday formally asked the State of Alaska to increase and inflation-proof the base amount of money school districts get per student, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has swapped contract proposals with its two biggest employee unions.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly members on Tuesday formally asked the State of Alaska to increase and inflation-proof the base amount of money school districts get per student; and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has swapped contract proposals with its two biggest employee unions.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly passed several items and heard public testimony on school funding at its meeting last night. Jubilee, Homer’s month-long celebration of student art will take place in April 2025.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly passed several items and heard public testimony on school funding at its meeting last night, and Jubilee, Homer’s month-long celebration of student art will take place in April 2025.

The Homer City Council took up plans for harbor improvements, considered changes to business zoning and more at its meeting last night. Seward’s roughly 60-year-old cruise ship dock is on track to get a $140 million makeover. Influenza or flu cases in Alaska are spiking, according to data from the state’s division of public health.

The Homer City Council took up plans for harbor improvements, considered changes to business zoning and more at its meeting last night, and Seward’s roughly 60-year-old cruise ship dock is on track to get a $140 million makeover.

The Pratt Museum in Homer is expanding access to its collections with the help of a state grant; and lawmakers heard this week that they’re facing even larger deficits than they previously thought.

At least eight U.S. Forest Service employees in Sitka were fired over the weekend, amid a national wave of terminations for federal employees, and Heather Renner, supervisory biologist with the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge presented “It was Worse Than We Thought: Half of Alaska’s Murres Killed in Heat Wave”.