A third candidate is running for the Alaska State House district that includes the southern Kenai Peninsula and Kasilof, and much of the United States experienced a solar eclipse Monday, an astronomical phenomenon where the moon passes between the earth and the sun and causes temporary darkness. Although the spectacle couldn’t be seen from Alaska, folks in Kenai had the opportunity to experience the eclipse in a different way.

A third candidate is running for the Alaska State House district that includes the southern Kenai Peninsula and Kasilof. The Kenai Peninsula Borough is continuing to seek solutions for a school in the South Peninsula village of Kachemak Selo, Borough Mayor Peter Micciche said in a report to the Borough Assembly last week.

The Homer City Council heard a legislative update from Rep. Sarah Vance and passed multiple items during its meeting Monday night, and audience members can take a trip down the rabbit hole as the Seward High School Theatre Collective puts on performances of “Alice in Wonderland.”

The Homer City Council heard a legislative update from Rep. Sarah Vance and passed multiple items during its meeting last night. Audience members can take a trip down the rabbit hole as the Seward High School Theatre Collective puts on performances of “Alice in Wonderland.” For the first time, money from ticket sales and revenue coming in from passengers using the Alaska Marine Highway System will be used to fund ferry and marine highway projects across the state.

Six schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will not qualify for Title I funding next year, and federally qualified subsistence deer hunters in the Kodiak Archipelago will be able to take four black-tailed deer annually.

Six schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will not qualify for Title I funding next year. The Bureau of Land Management is holding a series of public meetings next week on the Alaska Long Trail.

The railbelt is facing a major energy crunch.

Aleutian Airways will suspend its service to Homer beginning April 15; A Homer-based nonprofit that works with landowners and state agencies to protect land on the Kenai Peninsula recently completed mitigation efforts on the Cooper Landing Bypass project; and over 100 Kodiak High School students walked out of classes yesterday as part of a statewide protest over Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoing a bill [SB 140] that would have permanently increased education funding.

More than 30 Homer High School students stood outside the school’s entrance in a walkout yesterday morning, and Aleutian Airways will suspend its service to Homer beginning April 15.

More than 100 Cooper Landing residents called on the borough mayor to veto an ordinance, passed by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly at its last meeting, that would allow a concrete company to lease a one-acre parcel in the community; and more than 30 Homer High School students stood outside the school’s entrance in a walkout this morning.