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.

A play that took Alaska by storm seven years ago is now a high school social studies class. Federal agencies have rejected the Alaska Department of Transportation’s four-year plan for federally funded highway projects.

The state of Alaska has seen a backlog in pending applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as SNAP. As a result, some Kenai Peninsula residents who rely on food assistance are leaning more on the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank.

Attorneys for the only Native reservation in Alaska presented arguments today in federal court in a lawsuit over fishing rights, and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is in the process of expanding the critical habitat of North Pacific Right Whales off the coast of Alaska.

Residents of a Soldotna trailer park have settled out of court with their landlord in a confidential settlement after filing a suit late last year, which claimed an illegal eviction and insufficient utilities; and The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is in the process of expanding the critical habitat of North Pacific Right Whales off the coast of Alaska.

The Homer City Council unanimously approved changes to a tariff related to the Homer Port and Harbor, authorized pass-through funds from Doyon Limited related to a traffic impact study, and appropriated funds to celebrate the 40th anniversay of the sister city relationship with Teshio, Japan at Monday night's meeting, and a Kenaitze Indian Tribe employee working at K-Beach Elementary School was arrested Friday for exposing himself to a child in the bathroom at the school, per Soldotna Police.

Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks published a study last month looking at how ocean acidification affects Pacific razor clam development. A bill aimed at increasing oil and gas production in Cook Inlet took a step forward yesterday. Rep. Sarah Vance of Homer apologized on the house floor yesterday for comments she made in a House Tribal Affairs Committee meeting last week.

Nellie Moore was a broadcast journalist who leaves a big footprint in Alaska and beyond. She died last week at the age of 69, due to complications from a long-term illness. Moore was one of the first Indigenous reporters in Alaska, who could sew a traditional kuspuk, as well as stitch news and information into stories that made a difference.