Dozens of additional Kenai Peninsula Borough School District employees will be offered contracts for next school year. Alaskans have been stocking up on emergency supplies in preparation for a possible eruption of Mt. Spurr.

Volunteers in Homer are building Kachemak Bay State Park’s first organized response procedure, and Alaskans have been stocking up on emergency supplies in preparation for a possible eruption of Mt. Spurr.

Kenai Peninsula Community Choir and the Homer High School choir will perform a premier oratorio for voice and strings composed by Timothy Takach on Friday and Saturday evening starting at 7 p.m. at the Mariner Theatre; and volunteers in Homer are building Kachemak Bay State Park’s first organized response procedure.

On Wednesday, student representatives from five high schools on the Kenai Peninsula gathered in Homer for a district wide student council meeting; local growers will dig into everything from compost piles to climate-resilient farming this weekend at the first Southcentral Growers Conference in Homer; and the state board that regulates big game guides and outfitters is one step closer to having a permanent administrator.

For the second year in a row, state lawmakers failed to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would have increased funding for K-12 schools by $1,000 per student. Last week the lower Kenai Peninsula chapter of Future Farmers of America joined the 49th Alaska 2025 state convention in the Hoskins Building at the Palmer fairgrounds.

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Lawmakers are taking public testimony this week on a bill that would raise Alaska’s age of sexual consent from 16 to 18; Alaska’s freshman Congressman, Nick Begich III, hasn’t done much related to fisheries in his first 100 days in office. But during a commercial fisheries trade show in Kodiak last week, the Republican highlighted some seafood-related measures in the works and heard from local fishermen; and some federal workers in Juneau were fired again this month after the Supreme Court declined to reverse the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal workforce.

Homer’s main senior living facility plans to file for bankruptcy in an effort to reorganize more than $800,000 in debt and continue operating, and Homer High School will begin the 2025 school year with a new principal.

Homer’s main senior living facility plans to file for bankruptcy in an effort to reorganize more than $800,000 in debt and continue operating. Homer High School will begin the 2025 school year with a new principal.

Almost two years after central peninsula voters backed the construction of a new fire station for Soldotna, the building is starting to take shape.