Lawmakers will increase school funding this year — but with the majority of the session in the books, no one is saying by how much.In… Continue reading
JUNEAU — With the Legislature more than halfway through its scheduled 90-day session, major bills are starting to take shape — and a controversial bill… Continue reading
The Environmental Protection Agency set a potentially unprecedented process in motion when it began work on Feb. 28 to preemptively block Pebble mine as an… Continue reading
Monday 1 p.m.The House Resources Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 334 Oil & Gas Transferable Tax Credit Certification, HB 344 Invasive… Continue reading
Budget cuts recently requested by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) will close the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve (KBRR). Of course that’s not… Continue reading
The “reset” with Russia had a brief, unhappy life. It began with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presenting her Russian counterpart with a mistranslated reset… Continue reading
When the nation’s governors gathered in the U.S. capital, they tried to deliver a bipartisan message that gridlock in Washington is impairing efforts to govern… Continue reading
The Anchorage Christian Schools girls basketball team defended its Southcentral Conference crown Saturday with a 69-31 victory over Nikiski at Cordova High School. Nikiski still… Continue reading
PALMER — The Soldotna Stars knew their season was ending Saturday, and Soldotna capped the year guns blazing. Soldotna knocked down 11 3-pointers en route… Continue reading
The Kenai River Brown Bears snapped a four-game losing streak with a two-game sweep of the host Corpus Christi (Texas) IceRays on Friday and Saturday.… Continue reading
Peninsula skiers Sadie Fox and Hannah Pothast of Soldotna and Travis Cooper of Kenai Central competed in the 2014 USSA Cross Country Junior Championships this… Continue reading
The Nikiski girls basketball team used a monster fourth quarter to clinch its first Class 3A state tournament berth since 2009 on Friday at the… Continue reading
The sweet smell of fry bread wafted down the sidewalk in Old Town Kenai Friday as a steady stream of people walked into Fort Kenay… Continue reading
JUNEAU — Prisons. Jail time. Incarceration. Those words for Alaska may mean something radically different if a sweeping crime bill, shepherded by Senate Majority Leader… Continue reading
The Kenai City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to allow telephonic participation for the Planning and Zoning Commission, but not before one amendment vote… Continue reading
Soldotna's Erica Chilla has been crowned Mrs. Alaska United States. The pageant bills itself as the "pageant with a purpose for Alaska's married women." This… Continue reading
Three cases of chickenpox in young adults from the Kenai and Soldotna area since mid-February have been reported by the Alaska Department of Health in… Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Singer Courtney Love hadn’t been born and tweeting was reserved for birds when The New York Times won a landmark libel case at… Continue reading
The Obama administration is showing it can be tough on foreign policy. Unfortunately, that toughness is not directed at Russia and its incursion into Crimea,… Continue reading
President Barack Obama seemed to be seeing some wall handwriting at a recent fundraiser, worrying out loud about how Republicans might take over the Senate.… Continue reading
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