Projects for the city of Homer moved forward while a contentious short term rental ordinance came to a halt at last night’s city council meeting. The central Kenai Peninsula has a new diabetes center, inspired by community demand.

Projects for the city of Homer moved forward while a contentious short term rental ordinance came to a halt at last night’s city council meeting, and the central Kenai Peninsula has a new diabetes center, inspired by community demand. As KDLL’s Riley Board reports, the clinic is focused on combining prescriber care and education in one place to make diabetes management easier to access.

Alaska State Troopers worked with the Homer Police Department to arrest Gabriella Delligatti and charge her with third degree assault yesterday. At a ribbon cutting ceremony last week, the Kenai Chamber of Commerce recognized the peninsula’s newest small business. Emily Robinson won the Jr. Iditarod yesterday.

Three buildings in Old Town Kenai make up a key piece of the city’s Russian Orthodox history, and are some of the oldest structures of their kind in the state. The site gives a glimpse into what Kenai was like in the years following European colonization, and Way Out Women, a local nonprofit that supports Kenai Peninsula cancer patients, will host a fundraiser this Saturday at the Kasilof Eagles bar in Kasilof. The event is a community outreach event to raise money for the nonprofit's main event on March 9 at the Ninilchik Community Center.

Jr. Iditarod is a 150 mile dogsled race for mushers ages 14 to 17. Addy Pederson, the only competitive youth musher on the southern Kenai Peninsula, is racing this year for the first time; and The State of Alaska owes the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and two other Alaska districts millions, according to a December letter from the U.S. Department of Education.

Jr. Iditarod is a 150 mile dogsled race for mushers ages 14 to 17. Addy Pederson, the only competitive youth musher on the southern Kenai Peninsula, is racing this year for the first time, and Guiding Growth – a group of community members hosting a conversation series in Homer – held a presentation providing a different way of looking at growing cities last Tuesday.

Earlier this month, The Homer Pratt Museum held its annual business meeting to review the past year and elect new board members; and Guiding Growth – a group of community members hosting a conversation series in Homer – held a presentation providing a different way of looking at growing cities last Tuesday.

Earlier this month, The Homer Pratt Museum held its Annual business meeting to review the past year and elect new board members.

Craft beer enjoyers defied the cold this weekend at Soldotna’s annual Frozen RiverFest. Fisheries surveys are an essential tool for sustainable fisheries management, but in the midst of marine heat waves, surveys of pollock abundance in the Gulf of Alaska made wildly different estimates.

Most people probably don’t question what happens to commercial fishing line after it’s used. While some of it is recycled, much of it ends up in landfills or on shorelines, and a play that took Alaska by storm seven years ago is now a high school social studies class.