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Comment period nearing end for first Hilcorp North Slope development

Hilcorp project manager Mike Dunn solicited support for his company’s Liberty project — which would drill wells from…

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Alaska sees decline in military draft registration

All men ages 18 to 25 are required to register for a possible military draft lottery, but according…

Homer Electric Association General Manager Brad Janorschke gives an update on the utility cooperative’s renewable energy projects on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017 at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center in Kenai, Alaska. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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HEA considers diversifying electricity

Most electricity used on the Kenai Peninsula has one source. Gas turbines, burning natural gas produced from Cook…

Kenaitze Tribal Council Vice-Chairperson Bernadine Atchison and Gov. Bill Walker, fourth from left, sign the Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact during a ceremony Thursday at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage. Department of Health and Social Services Commissioner Valerie Davidson and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott celebrate the moment. The government-to-government agreement will make it possible for participating tribes and tribal organizations to provide child welfare services that would otherwise be provided by the Alaska Office of Children&

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Kenaitze to take services for Native children from state

The Kenaitze Indian Tribe signed a government-to-government agreement to take over child welfare activities from the state on…

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Local Bahá’í to celebrate bicentenary of founder’s birth

Local members of the Bahá’í religion will gather Saturday at the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center…

Llamas graze in the pasture of Diamond M Ranch Resort on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 near Kenai, Alaska. Three calves were born this summer to the herd that Diamond M owners Ronna and Blair Martin have kept since the 1990s. Though members of the Martin family have made yarn and felt hats from llama wool, taken them as pack animals on camping trips, and occassionally harvested one for meat, the llamas are mostly “exotic lawn ornaments,” Ronna Martin said.

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Llama mamas

By Ben Boettger Peninsula Clarion

The Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation is planning to widen the launch ramp at the state-owned Eagle Rock boat launch, seen here on Monday Oct. 16, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. Work at the site — which also includes dredging the area around the ramp and adding a floating dock and barriers to protect the surrounding wetland — will take place during the winter and next spring. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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State to renovate Eagle Rock boat launch

By next July the state-owned Eagle Rock boat launch on the Kenai Spur Highway will have a wider…

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Solar passes wind in HEA home renewable electricity

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct the Regulatory Commission of Alaska’s limits on net metered…

Kenai Potters Guild member Judy Brandt loads a gas-fired kiln with cups and bowls made by Guild members on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017 at the group’s studio in Kenai. The Potters guild is preparing for a busy winter with weekly classes, a “Clay on Display” art show presently sitting in the Kenai Fine Art Center gallery, and a new kind of kiln which they’ll be experimenting with this weekend. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Loading the kiln

Kenai Potters Guild member Judy Brandt loads a gas-fired kiln with cups and bowls made by Guild members…

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Nikiski incorporation effort pauses for thought

Editor’s note: This story has been changed to correct inaccuracies about effects on the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s tax…

Student nurse Jana Cooper gives a flu shot through the window of a truck during Central Peninsula Hospital’s annual free drive-through flu vaccine clinic on Wednesday in Soldotna. Normally held in the Central Peninsula Hospital parking lot, this year’s event was down the street at Soldotna’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, due to paving work in the hospital lot. In past years, student nurses have given over 400 shots at the clinic, and this year’s turnout seemed similarly large. Before the event began at 3 p.m, cars were lined up down the block as far as Rockwell Lane. (Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

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Vaccination drive-thru

Student nurse Jana Cooper gives a flu shot through the window of a truck during Central Peninsula Hospital’s…

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BlueCrest to drill at least one well in 2018

Oil producer BlueCrest Alaska Operating intends to drill at least one new well in 2018 from its onshore…

Volunteers at the Alaska SeaLife Center feed a milk and electrolyte mix to a beluga calf, rescued on Sept. 30 after being stranded in Trading Bay, by holding a tube to its lips (a method they’ve found works better than bottle-feeding) on Friday, Oct. 6 in Seward, Alaska. The calf is the first Cook Inlet beluga under human care. Activities in this picture have been authorized by NOAA’s Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program under the Marine Mammal Protection Act/Endangered Species Act

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Stranded beluga calf recovering in Seward

A male beluga calf, estimated between two and four weeks old, became the first member of Cook Inlet’s…

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Pallet fires banned on Kenai beaches

By the middle of next summer, pallet fires will be illegal on Kenai’s beaches. On Wednesday the Kenai…

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Visiting author looks at Alaska-Russian relations

Central Kenai Peninsula residents may not be able to see Russia from their homes, but on Thursday they’ll…

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Knackstedt, Navarre retain council seats

Kenai city council incumbents Henry Knackstedt and Tim Navarre will retain their seats for a further three year…

This map from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows the winter and summer habitats of beluga whales in the state. (Courtesy the Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

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Beluga research looks at failure to rebound

Two research efforts are taking new approaches to the question of why Cook Inlet’s endangered beluga whales haven’t…

This year’s three Kenai city council candidates — incumbents Tim Navarre (left) and Henry Knackstedt, and newcomer Bob McIntosh — respond to questions during a discussion on Wednesday in the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center. After the municipal elections on Oct. 3, the two top vote-getters will take the two open seats on the seven-person Kenai city council.

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3 Kenai council candidates talk business

Members of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce invited the three candidates to a forum on Wednesday, at which…

The research vessel Sikuliaq is docked at its homeport in Seward on Saturday, July 15, preparing for a research cruise through the Beaufort Sea on which oceanographer Dr. Carin Ashjian served as chief scientist. After the recent conclusion of the cruise, Dr. Ashjian was one of eight female scientists to participate in a discussion on women in science, organized by the conservation nonprofit Cook Inletkeeper, at the Kenai Fine Arts Center on Friday.

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Female scientists talk about women in science

Eight research and technical professionals gathered at the Kenai Fine Arts Center on Friday to publicly discuss a…

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Hilcorp subleases Kenai airport hangar

Hilcorp will be using a hangar on the Kenai Municipal Airport for flights to its facilities on the…