JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature is in its final week of a scheduled 90-day session, with budgets to complete and questions over what it will… Continue reading
Eighth-grader Jolie Widamen from Skyview Middle School can’t draw, can’t paint and is definitely not artistic, or at least that’s what she told her mom,… Continue reading
The Homer track and field program opened its season Friday and Saturday at the Pro/Whit Championships at The Dome in Anchorage. The Homer girls placed… Continue reading
The Homer girls soccer squad officially opened their 2018 season with a 1-1 draw against Palmer today in Palmer. Senior striker Sienna Carey scored the… Continue reading
Applications to serve on Soldotna City Council are being accepted until April 17. With the resignation of Keith Baxter in March, the city is looking… Continue reading
Mushing for the Fortymile By John A. Anderson, Kenai Above the hoarfrosted aspens a horned moon casts a yellow glow through the bare and lifeless… Continue reading
All you needed to know about student activist David Hogg’s speech at the “March for Our Lives” in Washington, D.C., over the weekend was that… Continue reading
In what has become an annual event, the Choose Respect March took place Wednesday afternoon in Kenai. Dozens of participants made the walk along Frontage… Continue reading
On March 12, 1968, Alaska forever changed. That was the day a team of geologists, engineers and drillers confirmed the Prudhoe Bay oil field. The… Continue reading
Alaska doesn’t need predator control on sea otters Companion bills coursing their way through the Alaska Senate and House propose killing sea otters to protect… Continue reading
More people had a chance to taste the Kenai than ever before at the 2018 Taste of the Kenai sponsored the Kenai Peninsula Tourism Marketing… Continue reading
Homer resident opposed to hospital boundary change I am writing to say I oppose Assemblyman Dale Bagley’s Ordinance 2018-16 that seeks to change the boundary… Continue reading
The Trump administration deserves credit for expelling 60 Russian diplomats (spies, actually, claimed the White House) and for closing the Russian consulate in Seattle, which… Continue reading
KEY LARGO, Florida — At dinner with friends, I was asked what is wrong with Washington. The question presumes a standard by which “wrong” can… Continue reading
Since the Three Friends Dog Park opened last summer it has been a tremendous success according to canines of the central Kenai Peninsula who have… Continue reading
With fish board politics, follow the money With the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, it is always a case of follow the money, whether it was… Continue reading
Fishery permit buyback proposal the wrong way to go Sen. Peter Micciche’s proposed buyback bill is not only wrong headed, at $260,000 for a permit,… Continue reading
Students seeks help with project Dear People of the Great State of Alaska, Hello! I am a fourth grade student in North Carolina. In fourth… Continue reading
1998-99, North Nikiski Bob needed an economical car to go back and forth to work as a carpenter for Unocal. He spotted a two-door Ford… Continue reading
The oddest thing happened last week in Washington, D.C., as members of Congress (and then President Donald Trump) rushed to keep the government open so… Continue reading