The Homer Airport will be closed for most of next week to continue its repaving project. The childcare sector in the United States is experiencing a shortage, and the Kenai Peninsula is no exception.

The Homer Planning Commission held a special meeting yesterday to consider a proposed hotel development at the base of the Homer Spit, and they got an earful. Do charter schools discriminate against low-income students and students with disabilities? That was the topic of conversation at Monday’s Kenai Peninsula School District charter school oversight committee meeting while considering whether to renew a local school’s governing document.

The Homer Planning Commission held a special meeting yesterday to consider a proposed hotel development at the base of the Homer Spit, and they got an earful. Do charter schools discriminate against low-income students and students with disabilities? That was the topic of conversation at Monday’s Kenai Peninsula School District charter school oversight committee meeting while considering whether to renew a local school’s governing document.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised its volcano alert level for Mt. Spurr yesterday, and Southcentral Alaska’s mariculture industry is optimistic about a bill passed this summer that streamlines the leasing process for kelp and shellfish farmers.

Southcentral Alaska’s mariculture industry is optimistic about a bill passed this summer that streamlines the leasing process for kelp and shellfish farmers.

The Homer Airport runway will close for three days next week for construction work, according to a press release from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, and Sitka’s Indigenous Peoples Day celebration was a feast for the senses, and a rich lesson in what it means to be a contemporary Lingít person.

Patrons of the Kenai Art Center this month may find themselves whisked away to familiar locales of the Kenai Peninsula; and the Homer Airport runway will close for three days next week for construction work, according to a press release from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

Alaska State Troopers arrested 50-year-old Jonathan Hammond and charged him with contributing to the delinquency of a minor last week, and a beach access trail in the Diamond Creek Recreation Area near Homer is temporarily closed after recent heavy rainfall caused the landslide, and voters defeated an over $38 million bond for South Peninsula Hospital in Homer during borough elections this year.

A beach access trail in the Diamond Creek Recreation Area near Homer is temporarily closed after recent heavy rainfall caused the landslide. Alaska State Troopers arrested 50-year-old Jonathan Hammond and charged him with contributing to the delinquency of a minor last week. Voters defeated an over $38 million bond for South Peninsula Hospital in Homer during borough elections this year.

A Homer judge sentenced a Homer man to 53 years for multiple counts of sexual assault Wednesday, and Sitka is far behind state and national averages for the availability of childcare, and it’s creating a crisis of unintended consequences in business, education, and the overall well-being of the community.