The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is severely restricting, and in some cases closing outright, sport king salmon fishing on the central Kenai Peninsula this year – again. With the Friday, February 13th deadline for public comment looming, hundreds of Alaskans are rushing to weigh in on the U.S. Interior Department’s review of federal subsistence management.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is severely restricting, and in some cases closing outright, sport king salmon fishing on the central Kenai Peninsula this year – again. With the Friday, February 13th deadline for public comment looming, hundreds of Alaskans are rushing to weigh in on the U.S. Interior Department’s review of federal subsistence management.

Kachemak Bay Recovery Connection is holding an overdose awareness and Naloxone training this Friday in Homer; and for Alaska Public Media's Alaska Survival Kit series, Wesley Early set out to learn how Alaskans can increase their chances of finding a date and falling in love.

Kachemak Bay Recovery Connection is holding an overdose awareness and Naloxone training this Friday in Homer; and for Alaska Public Media's Alaska Survival Kit series, Wesley Early set out to learn how Alaskans can increase their chances of finding a date and falling in love.

The man arrested for a high-profile murder in Homer pleaded guilty last week, more than six years after Anesha Murnane went missing; and several Kenai Peninsula Borough Schools will close later this week for parent-teacher conferences.

The Homer City Council approved several facility repairs and finalized its state legislative priorities at its meeting last night; the man arrested for a high-profile murder in Homer pleaded guilty last week, more than six years after Anesha Murnane went missing; and the National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory today for the entire Western Kenai Peninsula.

The Homer City Council approved several facility repairs and finalized its state legislative priorities at its meeting last night; and beginning in July, Kenai Central High School junior Josh Bolling will have the ears of Alaska's top education officials as their student adviser.

Beginning in July, Kenai Central High School junior Josh Bolling will have the ears of Alaska's top education officials as their student adviser.

Volunteers with a new local search and rescue team completed a three and a half day training course earlier this month; and at the end of January, scientists with the Alaska Veterinary Pathology Services were dropped at McDonald Spit near Seldovia in Kachemak Bay to necropsy a deceased baby beluga whale.

Volunteers with a new local search and rescue team completed a three and a half day training course earlier this month; and at the end of January, scientists with the Alaska Veterinary Pathology Services were dropped at McDonald Spit near Seldovia in Kachemak Bay to necropsy a deceased baby beluga whale.