One of the goals the City of Homer and organizers of a non-motorized transportation symposium hope to achieve Saturday is brainstorming safe ADA-compliant walking and biking trails; the Alaska Army National Guard wants to know whether its armory building in Kenai should be deemed “historically significant” — a designation that would insure any work on the facility moving forward fits the historical character of the building; and Kenai City Manager Paul Ostrander is leaving the City of Kenai next year after six years on the job.

The Hope Airport is getting a revamp, thanks to a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration; and the development of Unit 395, a 1,000-acre parcel northwest of Cooper Landing, was up for discussion among community members last week.

The Hope Airport is getting a revamp, thanks to a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration; and a 1,000-acre parcel of land northwest of Cooper Landing has the potential to become 100 affordable housing units, or maybe a recreation area or wildlife reserve.

The warmest days of the year are in the rearview mirror, but there is still plenty of wild harvesting to be done on the Kenai Peninsula and beyond this autumn; and an underwater discovery on the west side of Prince of Wales Island shows that people have lived in what we now know as Southeast Alaska for at least 10,000 years.

The warmest days of the year are in the rearview mirror, but there is still plenty of wild harvesting to be done on the Kenai Peninsula and beyond this autumn; a Coast Guard crew encountered a Chinese guided missile cruiser in the Bering Sea last week; and President Joe Biden has approved Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s request for a federal disaster declaration in response to the historic storm that devastated many Western Alaska coastal communities earlier this month.

The Forest Service is planning to build a slate of new recreation cabins in high-demand areas of the Chugach and Tongass national forests, the service announced Friday; and the Sacred Acre electronic dance music festival was held earlier this month at the Kenai Peninsula fairgrounds in Ninilchik. According to the organizers, it was the first festival of its kind in the state.

The Forest Service is planning to build a slate of new recreation cabins in high-demand areas of the Chugach and Tongass national forests, the service announced Friday; and the Sacred Acre electronic dance music festival was held earlier this month at the Kenai Peninsula fairgrounds in Ninilchik. According to the organizers, it was the first festival of its kind in the state.

A Kenai grand jury indicted Kirby Calderwood Wednesday in the 2019 killing of Anesha "Duffy" Murnane, of Homer; and South Peninsula Hospital’s Derotha Ferraro says the Bartlett street COVID clinic has already run out of the Bivalent Booster doses from Moderna.

A Kenai grand jury indicted Kirby Calderwood Wednesday in the 2019 killing of Anesha "Duffy" Murnane, of Homer; South Peninsula Hospital’s Derotha Ferraro says the Bartlett street COVID clinic has already run out of the Bivalent Booster doses from Moderna; and Mountain View Elementary School in Kenai doesn’t have its own full-time art teacher, but that isn’t stopping the school from spending an entire week on art — with help from a special guest.

The Levitt Foundation recently awarded Soldotna another $90,000 Levitt AMP grant to keep holding weekly concerts over the next three years; and the Homer Theatre kicks off its 18th Annual Documentary Film Festival tonight.