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Debara and Frank Kassik inspect their new awards from the 2017 Great Alaska Beer and Barley Wine Festival alongside their award from the same festival last year Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 at Kassik’s Brewery in North Kenai, Alaska. The couple won 1st place this year for their Buffalo Head Barley Wine, and 1st place in the winter seasonal category for their Barrel Aged Statny Statny. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kassik’s takes top prizes at beer, barley wine fest

When Debara and Frank Kassik opened a brewery in North Kenai in 2006, they said some were not…

A volunteer Alaska Moose Federation driver removes a dead moose from the Kenai Spur Highway on Dec. 13, 2013 in Kenai, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion/File)

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Moose-vehicle collisions on track with average for peninsula

One of the Kenai Peninsula’s most iconic animals for hunting and viewing is also the one of the…

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1 dead in fatal Kenai Spur wreck

One man is dead after a fatal car accident on the Kenai Spur Highway on Monday evening. Kenai…

Area residents wave at cars passing by while they march down Binkley Street during a Women's March held Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Soldotna, Alaska. Marchers held signs advocating for a number of issues, from women's reproductive rights to clean water. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

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Solidarity: Women’s March, community gathering bring hundreds out in Soldotna

While hundreds of thousands of people converged on the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington, D.C.,…

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Survey: 1 in 3 Alaska women are stalked

One third of all women in Alaska have been stalked in their lifetimes. That’s the estimate released by…

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Charge dismissed in child porn case against Soldotna man

A charge has been dismissed in the case against a Soldotna man accused of possessing child pornography. Remy…

Kenai Central High School ninth grader Chelsea Plagge, 15, tests out the height of a hanging ball just before a practice run of a high kick game Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 at the Yaghanen Youth Programs building off of Kalifornsky Beach Road near Soldotna, Alaska. She and dozens of other local kids will participate in the 2017 Peninsula Winter Games Native Youth Olympics Invitational which features traditional Native games this weekend. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kids gear up for annual Native Youth Olympics

Culture and friendly competition will collide this weekend in the annual Peninsula Winter Games Native Youth Olympics Invitational,…

This map generated by the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge shows the areas that are open and closed to snowmachining on the Kenai Peninsula. The refuge opened all areas traditionally allowed for snowmachining Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 after the peninsula got enough snowfall over the weekend. (Photo courtesy Kenai National Wildlife Refuge)

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Refuge opens to snowmachining

Snowmachiners of the Kenai Peninaula can rejoice for the first time in three years — the Kenai National…

Trees grow on the side of Mt. Marathon overlooking Resurrection Bay on Nov. 6, 2016 near Seward, Alaska. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

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New plants appear on peninsula as climate shifts

Are exotic plants still exotic when the climate around them changes so that they fit right in? That’s…

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Nikiski family has carbon monoxide scare, fire department installs alarms

As temperatures drop and the heaters kick on in homes across the Kenai Peninsula for longer periods of…

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Soldotna man accused of distributing, possessing child porn

A Soldotna man is accused of possessing and distributing child pornography in connection with an investigation that began…

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Sober living home advances toward opening

One nail and screw at a time, a local nonprofit is inching its way toward opening a sober…

The Soldotna City Council voted during its Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 meeting at Soldotna City Hall, pictured here, to appropriate funding to demolish a building that was damaged by fire three years ago.

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Soldotna approves demolition of house damaged by fire

The city of Soldotna is moving forward in the demolition of what council members and neighbors describe as…

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Nikiski battles North Road fires

Nikiski firefighters were kept busy Tuesday and into Wednesday morning with two house fires. First responders from the…

Jeremy Anderson, former Nikiski Middle-High School student music teacher accused of sexually abusing one of his students, walks out of a Kenai courtroom Tuesday Nov. 25, 2014 in Kenai, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion, file)

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Sex abuse trial for former teacher postponed

The trial for a former Nikiski teacher accused of having sex with a student has been pushed back…

Members of Soldotna Y Towing Inc. prepare a vehicle to be taken away from the scene of a four-vehicle accident on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 on the David Douthit Veterans Memorial Bridge in Soldotna, Alaska. One person was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. (Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion)

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1 hurt in 4-vehicle crash

Update 7:30 p.m. The accident on the David Douthit Veterans Memorial Bridge in Soldotna on Wednesday involved four…

Photo courtesy John Morton, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Laurie Severe and Dan Hoffman, a wildlife research technician for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, hold a previously orphaned cygnet rescued from a Kenai Peninsula lake and relocated to Iowa in 2005. The bird, cygnet No. 69, was transferred with two siblings and is Severe's favorite. It returns every now and then to her pond in Iowa.

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No place like home

Laurie Severe remembers the exact moment her favorite trumpeter swan — with which she had formed a bond…

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsla Clarion Signs for various businesses line the Sterling Highway on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 in Soldotna, Alaska. City staff in Soldotna have begun the process to revise the town's sign code, which could mean a few changes down the road for business owners.

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Soldotna launches sign code revision

The many banners, marquees and signs, illuminated and otherwise, that direct people moving through Soldotna to the town’s…

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Second body found in burned car identified

Alaska State Troopers have identified the second of two bodies found Nov. 27 in a burned Ford Bronco…

Photo courtesy Laurie Speakman This photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 on Kalifornsky Beach Road between Kenai and Soldotna shows under the hood of a snowmobile that caught fire and was put out by passerby Laurie Speakman, a volunteer driver for the Alaska Moose Federation on the Kenai Peninsula. She used two fire extinguishers to subdue the flames, one from home and one from her truck used to salvage moose, when she noticed a teen in distress on the side of the road.

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Right place, right time: Moose Federation driver aids snowmachiner

Quick thinking and the proper safety equipment helped Kenai Peninsula resident Laurie Speakman come to the aid of…