Alaska State Troopers are seeking information about a burglary at a Sterling liquor store, and housing is tight on the Kenai Peninsula, especially for renters.

Soldotna Vice Mayor Lisa Parker is the new head of the Alaska Municipal League; and Alaska State Troopers are seeking information about a burglary at a Sterling liquor store.

A bunkhouse at the Silvertip Maintenance Station and communication upgrades to the Seward Highway between Hope and Turnagain Arm are among the Kenai Peninsula projects funded in Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, and transportation within remote, Alaskan communities that are inaccessible by road usually means burning gas or diesel.

A Nikiski woman faces manslaughter charges, after Alaska State Troopers say she provided methamphetamine last year to a man before he overdosed on it; and a bunkhouse at the Silvertip Maintenance Station and communication upgrades to the Seward Highway between Hope and Turnagain Arm are among the Kenai Peninsula projects funded in Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year.

A Nikiski woman faces manslaughter charges, after Alaska State Troopers say she provided methamphetamine last year to a man before he overdosed on it, and hospitals across the country are reeling from the collapse of a staffing agency for emergency medicine doctors.

Two Alaska State Troopers each facing a felony assault charge will go to trial next June in Kenai; Alaska State Troopers arrested a Kasilof man on Tuesday after they say he sexually abused at least five teenage girls; and two cases of Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, have been confirmed in the Kodiak Island Borough School District this week.

This month, Bear Creek Winery will host its annual “Garden of Lights” event; researchers in two Northern Alaskan communities want to study how electric vehicles – including electric snowmachines – could be incorporated into their isolated power grids; and police arrested a Kenai man late last month after they say he sexually abused a 12-year-old girl.

Flooding from an ice jam on the Anchor River covered parts of the beach access road off the Old Sterling Highway, and state lawmakers are starting to get organized ahead of the legislative session that starts next month

Lower Kenai Peninsula residents can cut down their own Christmas trees this holiday season, the City of Kenai accepted nearly $80,000 in fishery disaster money last week, and Folks donned ice cleats and mittens in Soldotna on Saturday to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season