The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District on Monday published a list of nine schools it’s thinking about closing as a way to balance its budget for the upcoming fiscal year. For several years the U.S. Coast Guard’s emergency VHF radio system has experienced outages across Southeast and the Gulf of Alaska. Nine rural fire departments on the Kenai Peninsula are getting more than $80,000 in grants to boost firefighting efforts.

A young Appaloosa colt named Spurr has been reunited with his owners after going missing in Homer, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District on Monday published a list of nine schools it’s thinking about closing as a way to balance its budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

A young Appaloosa colt named Spurr has been reunited with his owners after going missing in Homer; this week’s frigid temperatures didn’t deter more than 200 people from shuffling in and out of the Challenger Learning Center, where five telescopes were each pointed at a different planet; and on January 15, then-President Joe Biden’s Pentagon ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to kill permits for a road megaproject in Northern Alaska.KBBI's evening news is supported by Homer Real Estate, now celebrating 40 of helping buyers and sellers in Ninilchik, Happy Valley, Anchor Point, Homer, and across the bay achieve their real estate dreams. Listings can be found at homerrealestate.com, or by calling 907-235-5294.

The Kenai Peninsula hasn’t had much snow this winter, so outdoor enthusiasts may already be dreaming about spring and summertime fishing, and less than two weeks after state lawmakers gaveled in the 34th Alaska Legislature, funding for K-12 schools is already dominating committee chatter.

Less than two weeks after state lawmakers gaveled in the 34th Alaska Legislature, funding for K-12 schools is already dominating committee chatter; and the Kenaitze Indian Tribe recently held a traditional medicine workshop about Yarrow.

The Kenai Peninsula wasn’t immune to some of the chaos that came with the federal government’s Tuesday announcement of a temporary freeze on federal grant funds; The Alaska Department of Public Safety on Monday named three law enforcement officers it says fired weapons during a deadly Kasilof shooting last week; and Alaska students posted some of the lowest scores in the country in national reading and math test results that were released yesterday.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough just got another $81,000 from assembly members to put toward its latest study of Soldotna-area schools, and no rocket launches are scheduled as of yet for this year at the spaceport on Kodiak Island, but the head of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation is hoping to capitalize on what’s becoming a national shortage of launch space in the Lower 48.

Last year, a Kenai fishing couple tired of being sidelined launched an experimental fishery that yielded 15,000 sockeye and zero king salmon deaths; and no rocket launches are scheduled as of yet for this year at the spaceport on Kodiak Island, but the head of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation is hoping to capitalize on what’s becoming a national shortage of launch space in the Lower 48.

The Seward Polar Bear Jump event celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier this month, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to support cancer-related causes, and even though sockeye salmon have been abundant on Cook Inlet’s east side in recent years, the state has severely limited the setnet fishery there.

Last night, Homer Police responded to a vehicle collision with a moose near Mattox Street on East End Road; winter kicked off with a snowstorm early in the season in parts of the Kenai Peninsula and greater Anchorage; and a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck about 58 miles southwest of Unalaska yesterday afternoon.KBBI's evening news is supported by Homer Real Estate, now celebrating 40 of helping buyers and sellers in Ninilchik, Happy Valley, Anchor Point, Homer, and across the bay achieve their real estate dreams. Listings can be found at homerrealestate.com, or by calling 907-235-5294.