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DOT plans work to repair 2012 flood effects

This summer the Alaska Department of Transportation will be repairing and replacing culverts and lining shorelines with rock…

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AOGCC offers alternate proposal for fracking permit comments

After hearing a request to make hydraulic fracturing permits subject to public hearings and comment, the state oil…

Possible Lawton Acres sale brings up old arguments

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Possible Lawton Acres sale brings up old arguments

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to remove a potentially misleading reference to the clearcutting of the…

Kenai Bowling Alley not sold yet

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Kenai Bowling Alley not sold yet

The sale of Kenai’s bowling alley to Anchorage-based real estate consultant Dean You, which the Kenai City Council…

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Kenai sells bowling alley

After 11 months of receiving offers and holding negotiations, the Kenai City Council has sold the former AlaskaLanes…

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Diverse local reactions to Trump presidency

After President Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States, politically active Kenai Peninsula residents…

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Photo: Nothing gold can stay

By Ben Boettger Peninsula Clarion

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Kenaitze greenhouse to sprout in Old Town Kenai

A grassy spot in Old Town Kenai next to the parking lot of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Dena’ina…

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Photo: Cold front

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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…

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Education, employment agencies see shrinking funds, usage

Some Kenai Peninsula training and education programs are threatened both by an increasing reluctance of individuals to invest…

The blank grantite panels of a new 100-niche columbarium — a structure built to house cremated ashes — stand ready to be inscribed with names on Tuesday, Jan. 10 in the Kenai Cemetery. The columbarium’s construction finished in August 2015, and niches will be available after the Kenai city council sets a price. A tentative policy presented to the Kenai Parks and Recreation commission by Parks and Rec Director Bob Frates proposed $1000 for a columbarium niche. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai to decide cemetery fees, price of new columbarium

Alaska is well-known for its high cost of living. Kenai now plans to re-evaluate one of the costs…

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Kasilof electrical fire caused by overloaded extension cord

An electrical fire on Sunday evening caused approximately $10,000 worth of damage to a single-family wood-frame home in…

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Kenai hockey team to begin playing on Kenai ice

Kenai Central High School’s varsity hockey team will play this season’s first home game closer to home than…

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion An array of photovoltaic solar panels generate electricity from the winter sunlight at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge headquarters on Wednesday, Jan. 4 in Soldotna.

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Kenai Wildlife Refuge beginning to track solar energy

When the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge opened its new visitors center in May 2015, one new feature was…

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Budget director: proposed budget brings Alaska to 2011 spending level

The Alaska Office of Management and Budget released Gov. Bill Walker’s proposed fiscal 2018 budget on Dec. 15,…

Getting back to a normal winter. It's been looking good so far. People are happier when we have a real winter. They get out and play. When it's just dark and icey, nobody has any fun. - Brad Carver

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What are you hoping for in 2017?

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Kenai may set flat smoking fines

Kenai’s fines for public smoking may drop if the city council passes a measure, suggested by Kenai’s legal…

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Kenai airport struggles to perfect land agreements

The Kenai Municipal Airport earned a fifth of its revenue recorded in the city’s present budget from payments…

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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…