Homer Police arrested 22-year-old Karl Jerry Wickstrom last month and charged him with four offenses related to domestic violence. Alaska State Troopers arrested a Homer man on Wednesday who they say broke into and stole from four homes in a Cooper Landing neighborhood last month.

Alaska State Troopers arrested a Homer man on Wednesday who they say broke into and stole from four homes in a Cooper Landing neighborhood last month, and the former chief of a Delta Junction-area volunteer fire department has been indicted on felony charges related to the alleged theft of some 400-hundred-thousand dollars.

Nick Begich III will be sworn in as Alaska’s representative in the U.S. House tomorrow, but until then Mary Peltola is still Alaska’s Congresswoman; and applications for the 2025 PFD opened on New Year’s Day and will stay open until March 31.

Nick Begich III will be sworn in as Alaska’s representative in the U.S. House tomorrow but until then Mary Peltola is still Alaska’s Congresswoman.

Municipal recycling as it used to operate on the Kenai Peninsula came to a grinding halt Dec. 11 with the demise of a 33-year-old piece of machinery at the Central Peninsula Landfill in Soldotna. Alaska’s harbors need more funding. That’s the case Petersburg’s harbormaster made to lawmakers on the state seafood task force earlier this month.

On Tuesday night, the 7th annual New Year’s fireworks display will light up the skies over Mariner Park, on the Homer Spit; the man largely responsible for running and growing the sport in the region was recently inducted into the Alaska Rugby Hall of Fame; and Governor Mike Dunleavy said Friday he intends to establish a state Department of Agriculture that he says would improve Alaska’s ability to feed itself.

Earlier this month, Homer residents took part in the annual Christmas Bird Count, a citizen science project organized by the National Audubon Society, and Alaska is home to over a dozen rugby teams, including two on the central Kenai Peninsula.

Earlier this month, Homer residents took part in the annual Christmas Bird Count, a citizen science project organized by the National Audubon Society; and travelers on the Alaska Marine Highway’s ferry Columbia got an unexpected Christmas present on a recent trip from Bellingham to Southeast Alaska: Wi-Fi.

Southeast Alaska’s commercial golden king crab and Tanner crab fisheries will open on February 17, and the Anchorage Museum will launch a new fellowship next year designed to support artists in Alaska and the Circumpolar North.

Southeast Alaska’s commercial golden king crab and Tanner crab fisheries will open on February 17. The Anchorage Museum will launch a new fellowship next year designed to support artists in Alaska and the Circumpolar North.