Education
Around the District
School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in…
Sports
Weekend hoops roundup
The host Nikiski girls basketball team used a quick start to defeat Seward 50-38 in Southcentral Conference action…
Sports
SoHi hockey swept in Anchorage
The Soldotna hockey team lost a pair of games in Anchorage on Friday and Saturday. Friday, the Stars…
Sports
Soldotna’s Davis earns silver in X Games Aspen long jump
Soldotna’s Cory Davis won a silver medal in the long jump competition Friday night to claim another medal…
Sports
Kenai ski teams, Soldotna’s Fox take ski titles at Colony Invitational
The Kenai Central ski team could be seen doing a bit of everything during the recent snow drought,…
Arts & Entertainment
Couple taps into passion for vinyl at new Anchorage store
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — On a dark January evening, the Black Keys’ album “Brother” spun on a turntable…
News
Upping their groundfish game
Despite more than thirty years of fishing around Alaska, Kasilof fisherman Rob Nelson had never let out a…
News
Lawmakers want bill to decriminalize marijuana fast tracked
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska lawmakers hope to fast track a bill that would decriminalize marijuana, but legalization advocates…
News
Gov. Walker says he’s haunted by savings draw-down rate
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Even with the budget cuts proposed by Gov. Bill Walker for next year, the…
Opinion
Cal Thomas: Winston Churchill – a man for all times
LONDON — It is an old debating point: Do the times make the man, or does the man…
Opinion
Voices of the Peninsula: Protecting salmon in a changing climate
The National Weather Service reports that 2014 was Alaska’s warmest year on record. Even with record-breaking temperatures occurring…
Opinion
Bob Franken: The State of the Union cliche
They can call it the State of the Union speech all they want, but what we witnessed as…
Opinion
Congress not looking out for rural communities
Money doesn’t grow on trees, nor have timber sales grown with them. Unfortunately for rural communities near land…
Life
It is what it is: Puppy love
“Why did you get a puppy?” That seems to be the question that immediately follows “awww, cute” when…
Life
Community news and notes
Mitchel Daugherty earned a GPA of 4.0 in the Fall 2014 term and has been recognize with the…
Life
Black belts in karate, black belts in life
Nine students from Peninsula Martial Arts earned the rank of black belt after a full day of testing…
Sports
Thursday hoops roundup
The Nikolaevsk girls opened the ConocoPhillips/Warrior Rumble with a 41-21 win over Fort Yukon Thursday at the Warrior…
Sports
Davis wins bronze at X Games
Soldotna snowmachiner Cory Davis isn’t done wowing the crowd just yet. Davis took home another X Games medal…
Sports
Sanarov shines as Homer hockey cruises past Kenai
Kiril Sanarov scored four goals as the Homer hockey team topped Kenai Central 7-1 in Northstar Conference action…
News
Soldotna to vote on charter commission
During a special election on Feb. 3, Soldotna voters will determine if the process for developing a home…