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Kenai to assist borough with leachate management
Leachate is the word for liquid that touches trash at a landfill
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Assembly calls on state to increase K-12 funding
School districts across Alaska lobbied lawmakers heavily last session for a meaningful increase to the base student allocation
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Suit alleges fungal growth at 4 KPBSD schools caused health problems
The district has both acknowledged and responded to the complaint, KPBSD Superintendent Clayton Holland said
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Multiple agencies respond to reports of employee with handgun in borough building
35-year old Lucas Thein was arrested on unrelated domestic assault charges
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Satanic Temple gets last word as assembly ends open invocation policy
Effective Jan. 1, assembly invocations will be delivered exclusively by volunteer chaplains who serve the borough’s fire and…
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Assembly mulls borough logo rebrand
The borough’s current logo is “dated, difficult to scale, and too detailed to be effective,” according to legislation…
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Borough spent almost $78k responding to flood events during disaster declaration
Most of the funds were spend in the northwest area of Kalifornsky Beach Road
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Borough gets $243k for emergency management work
The program is offered by the Federal Emergency Management Area in order to help states and other emergency…
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Borough to include cities in tourism promotion materials
Borough code doesn’t allow the borough to promote city-specific tourism without entering into a partnership with that city
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Emergency services, roads top borough capital priority list
The 72-page plan outlines more than 30 projects
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Assembly OKs changes to borough invocation policy
The new policy says only chaplains may give assembly invocations
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School board rejects Nikolaevsk charter school application
Charter organizers say they plan to appeal that decision to the State of Alaska
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Central Peninsula Landfill to remain open on Sundays this winter
The landfill usually closes on Sundays between Oct. 1 and April 1
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Assembly calls for economic disaster declaration for east side setnet fishery
The resolution is in response to this year’s unprecedented closure of the fishery by the Alaska Department of…
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Assembly OKs overhaul of borough gravel pit regs
The unanimous vote in support of the ordinance caps more than a year of work by an assembly…
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DOT commissioner: New road maintenance strategy could reduce brine use by 40%
Vehicle corrosion and associated costs, threats to public safety and environmental impacts were the top concerns
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Home-school meeting draws dozens
The event was hosted by the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
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Micciche talks home-schooling, emergency services at joint chamber luncheon
He opened Thursday’s presentation by summarizing the results of a community survey that the borough circulated shortly in…
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Borough, school district present local funding process
The presentation was the second as part of KPBSD’s “Budget 101”
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Tight races, lack of support for Seward utility sale reflected in unofficial election results
Election results are as of about 10 p.m. on Tuesday evening