A young moose calf was rescued from underneath the Beluga Slough Trail boardwalk in Homer earlier this month, and a mandate to sell millions of acres of public land was struck from the Republican budget reconciliation bill that’s moving through the U.S. Senate this week.

A young moose calf was rescued from underneath the Beluga Slough Trail boardwalk in Homer earlier this month; summer and baseball go hand-in-glove, and Kenai’s own Peninsula Oilers baseball team has been a summertime grand slam for more than 50 years; and dipnetting opened Wednesday on the Kasilof River.

The commercial lingcod season opens in Cook Inlet at midnight on July 1, the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward has admitted five harbor seal pups from across the state in the last two weeks, and a federal bill that would likely include cuts to Medicaid passed the United States House and is being considered by the Senate.

Former Homer High School student and resident Emma Sulczynski will be starting her senior year the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus in the fall of 2025; the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward has admitted five harbor seal pups from across the state in the last two weeks; and the commercial lingcod season opens in Cook Inlet at midnight on July 1.

The mural of performing artists on Pioneer Avenue in front of Nomar received a new addition of characters by artist Tom Reed and the wall reaches its 40th year anniversary this summer with the original 12 characters painted in the summer of 1985; Alaska’s interlibrary loan program, an 800 number that was slated to end next week, will continue for at least another year; and the Homer City Council wants to keep a portion of the city’s sales tax in place after it finishes paying off the police station.

The Homer City Council wants to keep a portion of the city’s sales tax in place after it finishes paying off the police station. Alaska’s interlibrary loan program, an 800 number that was slated to end next week, will continue for at least another year. The Kenai Peninsula Borough will buy 80 acres of property near Seward with the goal of opening land for residential development. Kenai Peninsula residents will get their first opportunity to buy borough land using a new discount this summer.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough will buy 80 acres of property near Seward with the goal of opening land for residential development; and Kenai Peninsula residents will get their first opportunity to buy borough land using a new discount this summer.

Around 50 people marched to South Peninsula Hospital in Homer this week to protest proposed federal cuts to Medicaid, and the Sitka School District is going to ride out an unprecedented fourth veto of education funding by drawing down its reserves.

Around 50 people marched to South Peninsula Hospital in Homer this week to protest proposed federal cuts to Medicaid; and Homer’s third Summer Solstice Fair, coordinated by Sage Anderson, is underway today in the Kachemak Bay Campus parking lot on Heath street until 10 p.m.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough has its spending plan for the fiscal year that starts next month. That’s after borough assembly members passed a budget Tuesday night that lowers property tax rates and fully funds education. Homer’s third Summer Solstice Fair, coordinated by Sage Anderson, will take place in the Kachemak Bay Campus parking lot on Heath street from noon until 10 p.m. Friday June 20th.