A contentious battle over books is playing out in Homer. Homer’s Library Advisory Board is deciding what to do with more than 50 children’s books with LGBTQ themes; and a young moose fell through a basement in Soldotna on Sunday, requiring local responders to guide it out of the home.

Thanksgiving food baskets were distributed over the weekend through the Homer Community Food Pantry at the Homer United Methodist Church. One hundred and ninety three families signed up to receive baskets this Thanksgiving to make their own meals; and Gov. Mike Dunleavy requested $287 million from the federal government last month for fishermen impacted by the Bering Sea snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab fisheries closures, but the current process of getting financial relief to fishermen is cumbersome and takes a long time.

HEA is looking into two Cook Inlet-based energy projects; for the first time, three openly LGBTQ state lawmakers are heading to the legislature.

Kevin Lee Park is charged with murder in the first degree in the death of Stephanie Henson; and new renewable resource projects are underway throughout Alaska.

Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic is piloting a program in Soldotna; a water rescue halted traffic on the Seward Highway; a suspect involved in a Kenai homicide is was caught in a chase and charged.

Starting this week, a new low-cost reproductive health care option is available on the central Kenai Peninsula, Homer-based Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic is piloting a program on the central peninsula that will bring twice monthly services to Kenai.

Alaska’s two U.S. senators voted in favor of ending debate on a bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage rights; Gov. Dunleavy is holding the lead in Alaska’s governor race; The City of Seward is again trying to sell its city-owned electric utility to Homer Electric Association; businesses spent more that $5 million for the right to explore state-owned land in the Arctic.

The Kenaitze Indian Tribe is getting more than $200k to look into stabilizing an ancestral gravesite in the Kalifornsky area against the threat of bluff erosion; and a flightless bird native to Australia is now making its home on the Kenai Peninsula — at least, in small numbers.

An Anchor Point man's three year push to raise emus in Alaska; two Alaska lawmakers are urging the Federal Trade Commission to block a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons.

Many people have coping mechanisms for processing trauma and for Happy Valley resident, Bob Stark, writing became his method for dealing with the PTSD he experienced from combat.