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Healthcare Task Force moves toward recommendations

After a nearly three-month hiatus, the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Healthcare Task Force launched hard into its recommendations to…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Melanie Lee, 17, walked over from Kenai Central High School to give blood at the Blood Bank of Alaska's mobile donation clinic Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. The Anchorage-based Blood Bank of Alaska, which periodically makes trips to other areas of Alaska to allow residents of other communities to donate blood, will hold another blood drive between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna.

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Borough assembly candidates talk revenues, cuts

With less than three weeks left to go until the municipal regular election, Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly candidates…

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Voters to decide fate of sales tax cap increase

More goods and services may be subject to sales tax in the Kenai Peninsula Borough if voters pass…

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Vote on senior property tax exemption approaches

Kenai Peninsula Borough voters will decide whether future seniors should continue to get $350,000 in property tax exemptions…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Mist drifts over the saddle at the top of Skyline Trail where fall colors emerge Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 near Cooper Landing, Alaska. Trees all along the Sterling Highway and throughout the Kenai Peninsula are beginning to fade into their fall yellows as the weather cools.

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Photo: Far over the misty mountains cold

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A participant relaxes into "corpse pose" during an aerial yoga session at the Yoga Yurt on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 near Soldotna, Alaska. The Yoga Yurt, a new yoga studio on Kalifornsky Beach Road near the intersection of Poppy Lane, opened this summer, offering aerial and paddleboard yoga as well as more traditional mat yoga classes.

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New yoga studios open in Kenai area

The spurts of laughter inside the Yoga Yurt on Kalifornsky Beach Road during a Monday evening aerial yoga…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Alaska Christian College President Dr. Keith Hamilton (center) bends down to get extra leverage during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Taikuu dormitory at the college's 15th anniversary celebration Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 near Soldotna, Alaska. The two-year Bible college serves Alaska Natives and this year has 10 students from the Navajo nation in Arizona.

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Alaska Christian College marks 15 years, plans new building

On a rainy September day in 2001, a group of people gathered in the woods near Kenai Peninsula…

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Railroad blocks boat launches on Lower Trail Lake

Visitors who want to launch their boats on Lower Trail Lake near Moose Pass have run into a…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Paritcipants wrote down ideas about who the homeless on the Kenai Peninsula are at a community workshop hosted by the Kenai Peninsula Journey Home on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. Organizers for the Kenai Peninsula Journey Home, a local group seeking to combat homelessness, plan to seek nonprofit status.

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Workshops hone in on homelessness

Editor’s note: This article has been clarified to show that the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Students in…

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Seward flood service area works toward long-term goals

More than four inches of rain fell in the Seward area between Sunday night and Monday, pushing up…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A pink salmon fights to escape an angler's hook Aug. 24, 2016 near the Soldotna Visitor's Center in Soldotna, Alaska.

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Collection of studies examines climate change effect on fish

Alaskans know the climate is changing, ushering in warmer winters and summers and possibly changing the behaviors of…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Gov. Bill Walker (left) signs HB 100 into law as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives Mike Chenault (right) watches Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. Walker visited the central Kenai Peninsula Monday to give a speech at a joint Kenai and Soldotna chambers of commerce luncheon and to participate in a worksession with the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly.

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Walker talks finances, LNG in Kenai

Gov. Bill Walker reiterated a call Monday for a fix to Alaska’s budget deficit while also signing into…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion The weir at the top of Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association's Paint River fish ladder, photographed Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 near the McNeil River Game Sanctuary, Alaska, screens fish into a small opening before allowing them to pass into the upper part of the Paint River. CIAA operates the fish ladder to allow salmon to pass into the upper reaches of the remote river system to spawn.

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CIAA fish ladder allows salmon to colonize Paint River system

Nearly every stream connected to the ocean in Alaska has native salmon. Each summer, they make their way…

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Maggie Grenier, a student at Nikiski North Star Elementary School, holds a flag during a flag dedication ceremony Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 at the Nikiski Senior Center in Nikiski, Alaska. The senior center staff and community members raised money themselves for the flag poles over the course of about six weeks earlier this summer, said Jill Smith, the senior center's executive director.

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Photo: Raise the colors

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Virginia Shook of Kenai makes a fingerprint on a painting the patients of Peninsula Radiation Oncology Center made at the center's second annual Patient Appreciation Luncheon on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska. Shook, who said she is now cancer-free, said her own cancer surprised her during a routine checkup that she had thought about skipping. "It just totally didn't see it coming," she said. She encouraged everyone to always have regular screenings.

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Keeping in touch

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Keeping in touch Virginia Shook of Kenai inks a fingerprint on a painting…

Alaska Department of Transportation This map from an Alaska Department of Transportation website shows the preferred route of the 5.5-mile Cooper Landing bypass, expected to be added to the Sterling Highway around 2018.

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Borough opposes DOT Cooper Landing bypass route

Several organizations, including the Kenai Peninsula Borough, have come out in opposition to the Alaska Department of Transportation…

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Assembly passes sales tax changes

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly passed a number of revisions to update and clarify the borough’s sales tax…

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Alaska LNG Project to move forward, with changes

Fieldwork in Nikiski is winding down and future plans are uncertain for the Alaska LNG Project as the…

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USFS releases Chugach plan scoping report

The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with revisions to its management plan for the Chugach National Forest.…