A driver died after their vehicle went off the road and rolled into the Anchor River early Tuesday morning. The Homer City Council delayed budget votes and approved zoning changes at its meeting Tuesday night. The federal government is charging the owner of two popular Mexican restaurants in Soldotna with being in the U.S. illegally and making a false statement of citizenship.

The Homer City Council delayed budget votes and approved zoning changes at its meeting Tuesday night, and documenting history comes in many forms, like word of mouth.

If you’ve ever thought about buying land to build a home in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, the conditions just got a lot more favorable. That’s after borough assembly members greenlit a program this week [that aims to make it easier to buy and develop residential property on the peninsula. Anyone walking along North Kenai Beach recently has probably noticed a big pile of rocks sitting on the north shore of the Kenai River near its mouth. It’s where work on a decades-in-the-making bluff stabilization berm is starting.

If you’ve ever thought about buying land to build a home in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, the conditions just got a lot more favorable, and nearly 600 seniors graduated from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District this week, marking a continued decline in student enrollment.

National Maritime Day was yesterday, a small but important holiday recognizing the hard work that goes into a career at sea; and nearly 600 seniors graduated from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District this week, marking a continued decline in student enrollment.

On Wednesday evening, Homer High School held the graduation ceremony for the senior class of 2025. National Maritime Day was yesterday, a small but important holiday recognizing the hard work that goes into a career at sea.

On Wednesday evening, Homer High School held the graduation ceremony for the senior class of 2025. A series of large, fraudulent cash withdrawals made with fake military IDs and passports at banks from Wasilla to the Kenai Peninsula have landed a man and woman in jail. Monday was Arbor Day in Alaska, a holiday dedicated to conserving forests and planting trees.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted last night to postpone a decision on an ordinance that would set the borough’s budget and determine how much funding local schools receive; and Pier One Theatre’s second show of the summer is “Silent Sky;” another script composed by Lauren Gunderson.

Some Alaskans are familiar with Salmonfest – a Kenai Peninsula music festival that advocates for the preservation of Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon. But a new spinoff music festival with a similar environmental message kicked off in Seward last weekend. A statewide advisory board tasked with managing Alaska’s forests met last week on the Kenai Peninsula for the first time in about 20 years.

The Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposal calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides funding to art institutions nationwide; and Homer’s Johnny B returns to the Porcupine Theater to perform live piano for Charlie Chaplin’s 1925 silent film, “The Gold Rush,” set to cover the 1896 gold rush in Alaska and the Canada Yukon Territory.