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At least 24 winners in Nenana Ice Classic

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s biggest annual guessing game comes with a record jackpot this year of more…

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Pioneer Potluck: About May baskets

1940’s on a farm North of Fort Collins, Colorado   May 1 was a big day for all…

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Bartlett soccer sweeps Skyview

The visiting Skyview soccer teams were swept by Bartlett on Monday. The Skyview girls took a 6-0 loss,…

Photo by Dan Balmer/Peninsula Clarion Donald Pootjes removes a studded tire from its rim at Alyeska Tire in Kenai Monday. Thursday is the deadline to have studded tires removed from vehicles traveling on central Kenai Peninsula roads.

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Photo: Change of seasons

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Peninsula approved for $68.8 million in capital budget

Following the Friday passage of the capital budget by the Legislature on Friday, House Speaker, Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski,…

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Nikiski woman in critical condition after ATV accident

A Nikiski woman remains in critical condition following an all-terrain vehicle accident Saturday. Barbara Ralston, 54, lost control…

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Kenai proposes half mill increase

The rising cost of healthcare premiums for city employees has the City of Kenai grappling with a proposed…

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Nurses receive sexual assault examiner training

JUNEAU (AP) — Homer nurse Colleen James had been working in her field for about five years when…

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Bill eyed to limit access to arrest reports

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Gov. Sean Parnell is considering a bill that would limit public access to arrest records…

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Obama’s foreign policy nonexistent

You know things are bad when you can’t wait for the return of a TV character to demonstrate…

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Voices of the Peninsula: Teach your kids to save

Do you want to set your kids up for future financial success? Then start now. That’s the first…

Opinion

No more second chances; build the gas pipeline

In the first month of 1910, archdeacon Hudson Stuck mushed into the Yukon River village of Rampart and…

April proclaimed Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Kenai and Soldotna

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April proclaimed Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Kenai and Soldotna

As the month of April passes into history it should be remembered through all the other 11 months…

Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" for one weekend only at Triumvirate Soldotna

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Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” for one weekend only at Triumvirate Soldotna

Among the classics of Broadway, Motion Picture and Television comedy one of the all-time greats of the 20th…

Credit Union 1 gives a big check to Teen Center and Payless gives shoes to kids

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Credit Union 1 gives a big check to Teen Center and Payless gives shoes to kids

April was a great month for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Kenai Peninsula as the Soldotna…

Easter Bunny sightings in Soldotna

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Easter Bunny sightings in Soldotna

Getting up on Santa’s knee is a little different than cozying up to a 6ft rabbit even if…

Cody Whiteley goes for the final blow to defeat his opponent Issac Dutton in a larping bout at Beaver Creek Park in Kenai Sunday. The two are members of the Kenai/Soldotna chapter of amtgard, a live-action fantasy combat game played around the country. The group, known as the frozen coast alliance, meet every Sunday at 1 p.m. at the park.

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John Morton, supervisory fish and wildlife biologist with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, discusses the elodea eradication project for Beck, Daniels and Stormy lakes in the Nikiski area at a meeting at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center in Nikiski on Thursday. Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

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Plans for elodea eradication move forward

While some details still need to be finalized, a team has prepared a plan to eradicate elodea, an…

In this photo taken on Tuesday afternoon, April 15, 2014, Richard Oehrig swaps locomotives on the upper rail line of his model railroad he's building in a friend's warehouse in Fairbanks, Alaska. Oehrig spends his lunch hours laying railroad track and carefully gluing pieces of scale-size gravel along the tracks. Sometime he's so busy with his project that he doesn't eat.(AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman) MAGS OUT, NO SALES

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Fairbanks man builds elaborate model train layout

FAIRBANKS — Richard Oehrig spends his lunch hours laying railroad track and carefully gluing pieces of scale-size gravel…

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Jury convicts Alaska man in Coast Guard killings

ANCHORAGE — A federal jury in Alaska on Friday convicted a man of murder in the shooting deaths…