The City of Seldovia is responding to a security breach after a Dropbox account was compromised early Monday morning: a decades in the making pipeline that would transport natural gas between the North Slope and the Kenai Peninsula now has a new majority owner; and the ongoing spruce beetle outbreak in Alaska has now affected 2.25 million acres statewide. But last year, the new forest damage attributed to the beetles hit its lowest point since the outbreak began nearly a decade ago.

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Homer High School junior Marina Co introduces the first local community job fair, scheduled to showcase potential summer employment positions in the community; and caregivers in Homer gathered last week to support state legislation to increase oversight of in-home care services and attempt to boost caregivers’ wages and benefits.

A new Native charter school is opening soon in Kenai, and former Homer resident Hannah Harrison, raised in the Cook Inlet commercial salmon industry and now living in Canada recently released a documentary focused on the Great Lakes commercial fisheries.

The Kenai Peninsula’s only online farmer’s market is no longer in service. The Alaska Food Hub program connected consumers with farmers, and distributed locally-grown produce to communities across the peninsula. Former Homer resident, Hannah Harrison, raised in the Cook Inlet commercial salmon industry and now living in Canada recently released a documentary focused on the Great Lakes commercial fisheries.

The Kenai Peninsula’s only online farmer’s market is no longer in service; and the $44 billion Alaska LNG Project picked up a letter of intent last Thursday from Taiwan’s state-owned CPC Corporation.

The Homer City Council approved resolutions last night recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month, supporting federal library funding, advancing a harbor infrastructure project and more. Three people were rescued Monday morning after their small plane went through the ice near the east side of Tustumena Lake, about 40 miles southeast of Soldotna. A 16-year-old snowmachiner from Soldotna died over the weekend after he was caught in an avalanche in Turnagain Pass.

The Homer City Council approved resolutions last night recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month, supporting federal library funding, advancing a harbor infrastructure project and more. Dozens of people rallied in support of public workers and land in Seward on Saturday.

Cook Inlet’s east side setnet fishery won’t get to use beach seines this summer following a vote by the Alaska Board of Fisheries; and business leaders and community members packed a room last Wednesday to hear takeaways about the looming natural gas shortfall in Cook Inlet from the chair of the Southcentral Mayors’ Energy Coalition.

Business leaders and community members packed a room last Wednesday to hear takeaways about the looming natural gas shortfall in Cook Inlet from the chair of the Southcentral Mayors’ Energy Coalition. As state lawmakers meet in Juneau this legislative session, the underlying factor driving movement on nearly every topic is money.