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Planning ahead at Central Peninsula Landfill
There’s a lot going on at Central Peninsula Landfill.
News
Despite reform bills, central peninsula residents still frustrated by crime
Though multiple bills have overhauled the criminal justice system in Alaska in the past few years, the tone…
News
4 charged in illegal commercial fishing near Homer
The state has filed charges against four commercial fishermen accused of illegal harvesting salmon in a bay south…
Life
Across 20 years and the entire country, Alaska and Florida couples build friendship
Though he’s only here for about a month each summer, Paul Coleman knows many of the fishermen on…
News
Draft revision to Chugach Forest plan released
The U.S. Forest Service is moving into the next phase of rewriting its plan for the Chugach National…
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Fish and Game increases Kasilof sockeye bag limit
With the Kasilof River sockeye run safely within the optimum escapement goal, the Alaska Department of Fish and…
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Tobacco tax on borough agenda, sales tax cap ordinance dropped
While the borough’s budget has been settled for the coming year, the assembly members are still looking at…
Opinion
Letter to the editor: Children must be protected by adults
Children must be protected by adults
Life
Kasilof dipnet fishery hot on high tide, silvers reach Kenai
Tuesday night brought a ray of sunshine, a high tide and a fresh bloom of fish into the…
News
Kenai River sockeye fishing to close Saturday
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is closing the Kenai River entirely to sockeye salmon fishing for…
News
Salmon initiative would criss-cross state jurisdictions, officials say
Beyond just the cost and politics of Ballot Measure 1, state administrators have expressed concern about who would…
News
Fish and Game expands monitoring for harmful sheep, goat bacteria
The state is asking hunters to bring in the heads of the animals they’ve harvested this season so…
News
So you want to get involved in local government?
The sights, sounds, speeches and signs of election season are bearing down on the Kenai Peninsula as July…
News
2 candidates vie for District O Senate seat
Republicans will get to choose the senator who represents the central Kenai Peninsula in the Alaska Legislature for…
News
Construction company says its trucks weren’t involved in boy’s death
Construction company Granite Construction says its gravel trucks weren’t involved in an incident July 19 that killed an…
Life
78-pound king caught on Kenai; sockeye fishing up and down
Despite its nickname as the Land of the Midnight Sun, there are in fact hours of darkness on…
News
Sales tax initiative won’t go to ballot this year
Kenai Peninsula voters won’t have to decide on a half-percent increase in the sales tax this October, though…
News
Fish and Game lowers Kenai River sockeye estimate
The sockeye salmon run to the Kenai River is weaker than the Alaska Department of Fish and Game…
News
Setnetters ask Fish and Game to clarify commercial king harvest
With low king salmon counts in the Kenai River and restrictions tightened on most fisheries in the area,…