Ben Boettger

Snow River dam project scrapped

Four weeks after federal regulators gave Chugach Electric Association a three-year permit to investigate the feasibility of putting a hydroelectric dam on the eastern Kenai… Continue reading

HEA to hold meeting, election

The 22,892 member-owners of Homer Electric Association will have a chance to vote for three representatives on the electrical co-operative’s nine-person board of directors in… Continue reading

HEA briefs members on current, upcoming business

Issues discussed in Homer Electric Association’s annual members meeting, held Wednesday at Kenai Central High School, include what the electric cooperative is doing to reduce… Continue reading

HEA answers questions on withdraw from RCA regulation

Editor's note: This story has been changed to correct the dates of election events. Homer Electric Association’s 22,892 members will decide whether their cooperative’s pricing… Continue reading

Utility regulators to investigate HEA subsidiary’s deregulation election

In an order issued Wednesday, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska opened an investigation into whether the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors or HEA members… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Homer Electric Association General Manager Brad Janorschke presents his arguments for HEA's deregulation to members of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 at the Kenai Visitor's Center in Kenai, Alaska.

HEA Manager presents case for deregulation

Homer Electric Association’s General Manager Brad Janorschke made his case for deregulating the utility cooperative — the sole supplier of electricity to about 22,892 members… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Homer Electric Association General Manager Brad Janorschke presents his arguments for HEA's deregulation to members of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 at the Kenai Visitor's Center in Kenai, Alaska.

HEA subsidiary to also have deregulation election

As Homer Electric Association proceeds with its election to withdraw from the oversight of the state utilities regulator, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, the HEA… Continue reading

HEA will not deregulate

Homer Electric Association will remain under the oversight of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, the agency which oversees the pricing practices of public utilities in… Continue reading

HEA directors look at regulated future

Editor's note: This story has been updated to add the amount HEA spent on the deregulation campaign.  After Homer Electric Association failed to deregulate, with… Continue reading

Permit may delay Sport Lake elodea killing

Elodea could be eliminated from Sport Lake near Soldotna before native vegetation emerges and before the summer crowd of pilots and boaters arrive, but only… Continue reading

A firework explodes in the sky above the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center during the finale of this year’s Christmas Comes to Kenai celebration on Nov. 25, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. Kenai ultimately decided not to extend the use period for fireworks or allow sales within the city. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai firework ordinance fizzles

Legal fireworks in Kenai will remain confined to the 48 hours between Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 and the city will stay closed to firework… Continue reading

A firework explodes in the sky above the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center during the finale of this year’s Christmas Comes to Kenai celebration on Nov. 25, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. Kenai ultimately decided not to extend the use period for fireworks or allow sales within the city. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

Federal proposal would cut support for Kachemak Bay Research Reserve

A publicly-funded science organization in Homer that aims to provide practical data to Kachemak Bay oyster farmers, boat operators, municipal planners, educators and others may… Continue reading

Kenai may extend firework usage

Whether to expand sale and use of fireworks will be tackled on the Kenai City Council’s Wednesday night agenda. Kenai allows residents to shoot off… Continue reading

Use caution with New Year’s fireworks

As in years past, the sky over Kenai will likely be lit with fireworks as 2016 ends on Saturday night. The cheerful boom and sparkle… Continue reading

AGDC president presents local case for LNG

With the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corporation officially the sole player in developing an export project for North Slope natural gas, its president Keith Meyer emphasized… Continue reading

Linguist James Kari, who worked with Dena’ina speaker Peter Kalifornsky on preserving the vanishing Dena’ina language in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, speaks at a Kenai Peninsula History Conference panel on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Kenai Peninsula College near Soldotna, Alaska. Kari presented his work at both last week’s history conference and the one that preceded it in 1974. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai Peninsula Historical Conference sheds light on Russian, Native history

Like the history it examined, the weekend’s history conference at Kenai Peninsula College was many things to many people. For Michael Skinner, who gives summer… Continue reading

Linguist James Kari, who worked with Dena’ina speaker Peter Kalifornsky on preserving the vanishing Dena’ina language in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, speaks at a Kenai Peninsula History Conference panel on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Kenai Peninsula College near Soldotna, Alaska. Kari presented his work at both last week’s history conference and the one that preceded it in 1974. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenaitze elders demonstrate traditional moose head use

During Sharon Isaak’s childhood in Soldotna, butchering and processing moose meat was a regular family activity. Though the old bone saws are still in the… Continue reading

Club and concert series to be hosted at Cannery Lodge

Club and concert series to be hosted at Cannery Lodge

By BEN BOETTGER Peninsula Clarion A building on south shore of the Kenai River mouth — which over the years has been a fish cannery,… Continue reading

Club and concert series to be hosted at Cannery Lodge
Image courtesy of PRL Logistics and Straightline Aviation  This computer-generated illustration shows Lockheed Martin's LMH-1 hybrid aircraft, which transportation company PRL Logistics plans to base in Kenai in 2019.

Hybrid aircraft to be based in Kenai

By 2019, people looking south across Kenai’s river flats or standing on its beach might occasionally see a giant, three-lobed ovoid rise into the air… Continue reading

Image courtesy of PRL Logistics and Straightline Aviation  This computer-generated illustration shows Lockheed Martin's LMH-1 hybrid aircraft, which transportation company PRL Logistics plans to base in Kenai in 2019.
Kenai-based airship may arrive in 2019

Kenai-based airship may arrive in 2019

Possibilities that a new airship design may bring to Kenai include a $10 million hangar, science educational activities, local jobs and a chance to fly… Continue reading

Kenai-based airship may arrive in 2019