The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved school funding and advanced several budget-related items during its meeting last night; and the K-12 school in Nikolaevsk will permanently shut its doors at the end of this school year.

Teachers, students and employees rallied in support of Sterling Elementary School on Saturday in Soldotna. Alaskans of several religious backgrounds sang, and prayed, in Soldotna Thursday in celebration of National Day of Prayer.

A woman from the Bristol Bay community of Levelock was arrested after a fire broke out aboard a commercial vessel in Seward early Friday morning. Homer Electric Association’s three incumbent Board of Directors candidates will keep their seats for another three years. Every year, the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District, or KPEDD brings together industry leaders and stakeholders from around Alaska.

Every year, the Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District, or KPEDD brings together industry leaders and stakeholders from around Alaska; and Homer Electric Association’s three incumbent Board of Directors candidates will keep their seats for another three years.

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The annual Kachemak Bay Campus Conservation Ecology Student Science Symposium beganThursday morning and will run with presentation events through Friday.

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Kachemak Bay Family Clinic will offer a free Saturday sex education workshop on May 3rd for youth ages 12-14 at their clinic facility on Ben Walters Lane. Salt brine is one way the Alaska Department of Transportation treats Kenai Peninsula roadways in the winter, one Seward High School freshman was recognized for introducing a road treatment alternative.

A Homer pilot and passenger from Anchorage died Monday afternoon in a plane crash near the small Kenai Peninsula community of Nanwalek; the Homer City Council passed a series of measures, postponed two items and heard from visitors at its meeting last night; and Homer’s first cruise ship for the season, the Viking Venus, with Viking Ocean Cruises will arrive in Homer on Wednesday morning.

The Homer City Council passed a series of measures, postponed two items and heard from visitors at its meeting last night, Pope Francis died last week at the age of 88 in Vatican City, leaving the Catholic church’s most powerful position vacant, and two people are dead, and one person is seriously injured after a small plane crashed Monday afternoon near the community of Nanwalek on the southern Kenai Peninsula.