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”.

More than a million salmon are expected to be harvested this year. That’s according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2025 Lower Cook Inlet commercial salmon fishery outlook. 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”.

Next week, the Homer community will get a chance to weigh in on vessel insurance requirements at Homer Harbor, and the dust is still settling after the federal government abruptly fired thousands of probationary employees last week in the name of efficiency.

Travelers in and out of Homer now have fewer flight options after Ravn Alaska abruptly ended service to the city this week; and Nikiski Republican Sen. Jesse Bjorkman met with a packed-full room of constituents in Moose Pass on Friday.

A mythical, blood-hungry plant is alive in the Kenai Performers’ rehearsal space, and Soldotna’s annual winter craft beer festival celebrated its 10th anniversary Saturday.

Adverse economic conditions are muddying the future of a plan to put Alaska’s largest solar farm in Nikiski; and nearly 250 people gathered outside Petersburg’s courthouse on Main Street yesterday to show support for federal employees who had recently been fired.