Homer’s 32nd Annual Shorebird Festival was last week. There were birding walks and guided tours in Kachemak Bay State Park, dissections and even a bird calling contest. A new restaurant in Anchor Point had its grand opening last weekend.

The City of Kenai will take up an ordinance this week to remove three offenses related to sleeping in public, loitering and begging from the city’s municipal code, and Ketchikan community members are pushing back against the planned construction of a hillside market on a busy downtown street.

The Homer City Council approved a resolution at last night’s meeting that makes work skiffs attached to boats exempt from paying moorage fees in Homer Harbor for the rest of the year. Injured commercial fishermen and boat owners in Alaska will now be able to access higher insurance reimbursements, thanks to Senate Bill 93, which was signed into law last month.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough is getting public input as it updates its Hazard Mitigation Plan, the Ketchikan Borough was scammed out of about $625,000 earlier this month, and The Homer City Council approved a resolution at last night’s [5/13] meeting that makes work skiffs attached to boats exempt from paying moorage fees in Homer Harbor for the rest of the year.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough is getting public input as it updates its Hazard Mitigation Plan. In Southcentral Alaska, one of the largest school districts by area in the country is home to more than 40 schools that push the boundaries of public education.

The Harding Icefield is a massive glacial ice cap that spans between Homer and Seward.

The Harding Icefield is a massive glacial ice cap that spans between Homer and Seward. Six people attempted to cross the icefield last month, but an intense storm left them stranded halfway through. Elementary students from across the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District recently faced off in a math-oriented competition.

Should Southeast Alaska have a hatchery-only king salmon sports fishery? Researchers recently tried to answer that question as a possible solution to a declining number of wild kings, and a group of Homer High School students visited Seward in March to tour the Alaska Vocational Technical Center.

A group of Homer High School students visited Seward in March to tour the Alaska Vocational Technical Center (AVTEC); and The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved a $56 million contribution to the borough’s school district for the next fiscal year at its Tuesday night meeting.

A new store opened in Seward last month, bringing books and yarn to customers on the eastern Kenai Peninsula, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly introduced several ordinances and carried out multiple commendations at Tuesday night’s meeting.