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Pipeline may come to Ladd Landing; coal terminal won’t

After its May decision to stop seeking permits, Delaware-based PacRim Coal is giving up what had been a…

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Setbacks complicate Kenai marijuana permitting

The question of how to measure the minimum distance Kenai code mandates between marijuana businesses and churches, schools,…

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Marijuana activists prepare for KPB vote

Three months ahead of a vote on whether cannabis businesses can continue operating in the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s…

A retired U.S Airforce Lockheed T-33 fighter jet stands on a pedestal in front of the Kenai Municipal Airport on July 7, 2017 in Kenai. The Kenai Airport Commission is discussing giving the plane a fresh coat of paint this summer. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai Airport T-33 may get new paint

The aircraft mounted in the grassy lot in front of the Kenai Municipal Airport — a retired U.S…

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Army Corps leaders speak on Kenai bluff erosion

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the date of the meeting to July 6. Last…

Eagle Scout candidate Derek Brown and fellow members of Kenai’s Boy Scout Troop 152 Joey Freeman (left) and Jimmy Freeman (right) paint the flower box outside Kenai’s American Legion post as part of Brown’s Eagle Scout community service project on Monday, July 10, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. To earn Boy Scouting’s highest rank, Brown organized the troop, along with friends and family members, in repainting the flower box red, white, and blue, and planting it with a pattern of red, white, and blue flowers, along with purple petunias to symbolize the Purple Heart military decoration given to wounded soldiers. Brown, who began planning the project about two weeks ago, said his two brothers had previously done Eagle Scout projects to benefit schools and churches. “I wanted to do something for the veterans, and this was the best I could come up with,” Brown said.

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Doing a good turn

Eagle Scout candidate Derek Brown and fellow members of Kenai’s Boy Scout Troop 152 Joey Freeman (left) and…

Linda Nelson (in wheelchair) and her husband Rodney Nelson hold signs in a demonstration by supporters of women’s health organization Planned Parenthood and opponents of the U.S Senate healthcare bill known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act on Thursday, July 6, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Residents rally for health care

Linda Nelson and her husband Rodney Nelson were among those who turned out in Kenai on Thursday to…

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Assault charges dropped against Tim Navarre

Assault charges against Tim Navarre, a member of the Kenai City Council and of the Kenai Peninsula Borough…

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Hilcorp plans new pad and well near Ninilchik

Oil and gas company Hilcorp Alaska plans to lay a new gravel pad and drill a new well…

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Lawton Acres to have appraisal by July 5

In an ongoing debate about a city of Kenai-owned property contested for its value as either commercial land…

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Out of the Office: A forest of two minds

East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. True or not in geopolitics,…

This computer-generated graphic, included in a U.S Army Corps of Engineers report on the Kenai bluff erosion mitigation project, illustrates the Army Corps’ preferred plan to create a rock berm at the base of the bluff, allowing it naturally shift to a stable slope in the next 3 to 15 years, according to the Corps’ projection.

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Army Corps finds negative cost-benefit of Kenai bluff erosion project

In a new report on a collaboration with the city of Kenai to halt erosion on the nearly…

Rick Koch campaigns in his unsucessful 2016 run for the Alaska House of Representatives during Soldotna’s Progress Days Parade on July 23, 2016. Koch, who served as Kenai’s city manager from 2006 to 2016, was killed on Sunday in a motorcycle accident on the Dalton Highway.

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Former Kenai city manager Rick Koch dies in motorcycle accident

Former Kenai city manager Rick Koch was killed in a motorcycle accident on the Dalton Highway on Sunday.…

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Kenai dipnet app now available

While this summer’s dipnetters fish in the mouth of the Kenai River, the city of Kenai will be…

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HEA exploring solar power

Homer Electric Association is “in the exploratory phase” of planning a solar power installation that may be funded…

A sign posted near the Kenai Field of Flowers by activist and nieghborhood resident Greg Daniels urges property-owners near Lawton Acres — a 16.5-acre wooded strip of city-owned land that has been the subject of controversial development efforts — to attend a past Kenai City Council meeting, phographed on May 12, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. The Kenai City Council may vote on June 21 or July 5 on whether to preserve Lawton Acres as a park by paying to relieve it from the legal obligation to support the Kenai Municipal Airport.

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Lawton purchase scheduled for June 21, may be delayed

The Kenai City Council may vote on whether to buy Lawton Acres — a 16.49 acre strip of…

The Surgery Center of Kenai, which is planning to add a second operating room, stands on Friday, June 9, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska.

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Surgery Center of Kenai plans new operating room

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct a reference to the 91 percent drop in Central…

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Kenai passes $26 million budget

The Kenai City Council passed its $26.49 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2018 — to begin…

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Kenai partners with Chamber of Commerce for fall silver derby

Kenai’s city government will have a say in how the town’s first silver salmon fishing derby — initiated…

Carrie Gaethle and her children Ayla Gaethle (left) and Andrew Gaethle play in the surf on Kenai’s north beach on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 in Kenai. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Life’s a beach