Homer’s Burning Basket is a long-standing tradition of art and remembrance that culminates in the burning of a large sculpture, made up of natural woven materials; and schools can look remarkably different in rural areas, but especially so for villages.

Libraries around the state are scrambling after learning a key state grant was being slashed six weeks into the fiscal year.

Libraries around the state are scrambling after learning a key state grant was being slashed six weeks into the fiscal year.

A Homer man was arrested and charged with first degree attempted murder last week, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough estimates it’s between $10 and $12 million short of what it needs to complete the list of school maintenance projects borough voters approved in 2022.

A bill adding more Indigenous languages to Alaska’s official list became law on Friday without the governor’s signature. A Homer man was arrested and charged with first degree attempted murder last week. A woman who traveled to all 50 states collecting stories of kindness returned to Homer over the summer to compile them into a book. Three candidates running to unseat Alaska Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola this November have advanced to the general election ballot.

Alana Greear, a candidate for the state house seat that represents the southern Kenai Peninsula, has suspended her campaign, and Kotzebue Sound’s commercial salmon fishery is facing a 30 year low after years of record high returns.

Alana Greear, a candidate for the state house seat that represents the southern Kenai Peninsula, has suspended her campaign. It’s been almost two years since Soldotna voters overwhelmingly supported construction of a community field house. The Kenai Peninsula Food Bank’s executive director is retiring.

An Alaska Superior Court judge sentenced a Homer man to 25 years in prison for attempted first degree sexual assault last Wednesday, and a master totem pole carver has been in Wrangell since July, guiding local carvers on replicating a totem pole.

Salmon sharks appear to be turning up in fishermen’s nets, and washing up on public beaches around Kodiak Island in greater frequency this summer; a remote landslide produced a tsunami at Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward earlier this month; and an Alaska Superior Court judge sentenced a Homer man to 25 years in prison for attempted first degree sexual assault Wednesday.

A remote landslide produced a tsunami at Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward earlier this month, and three groups want to open new charter schools on the Kenai Peninsula for next school year.