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Groups protest plans for possible lease sale in Beaufort

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Federal regulators are preparing an environmental review for a possible offshore lease sale in Alaska’s…

This Jan. 16 photo shows Alaska state Rep. Scott Kawasaki, a Fairbanks Democrat, talking on a telephone before the start of the legislative session at the state Capitol in Juneau. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

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Kawasaki appears to upset Kelly in Alaska Senate race

JUNEAU (AP) — Republican Alaska Senate President Pete Kelly appears to have lost his re-election bid but told…

In this Jan. 24, 2010 file photo, the moon hangs low in the sky over the remote Inupiat Eskimo village Noorvik. Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy will become Alaska’s top elected official Dec. 3, when he takes the oath of office in Noorvik. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Alaska’s governor-elect to be sworn in above Arctic Circle

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Alaska’s newly elected governor will be sworn in above the Arctic Circle, marking a first…

Voices of the Peninsula: Time to give up the invocation fight

Opinion

Voices of the Peninsula: Time to give up the invocation fight

How much more money is the Kenai Peninsula Borough willing to spend on defending a discriminatory and unconstitutional…

Opinion

Bob Franken: The dog-eat-dog world

I’m always amazed that the Washington types I consider to be such jerks are completely different when I…

Kenai Elks Lodge’s Veterans Winter Clothing Drive donation

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Kenai Elks Lodge’s Veterans Winter Clothing Drive donation

Kenai Elks Lodge #2425 donated three large boxes, a large container, and several bags of winter clothing to…

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Life in the Pedestrian Lane: Mom sez…

By VIRGINIA WALTERS

Single-use plastic bags litter the side of Lake Street on Sept. 25, 2018, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

Life

Recycling Bin: Turn the tide against plastic

Turning the tide on plastic pollution requires the commitment of industry and consumers. Last month more than 275…

Learning for Life: Natural Disasters — Mitigate Your Losses by Preparing Now

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Learning for Life: Natural Disasters — Mitigate Your Losses by Preparing Now

Natural Disasters — Mitigate Your Losses by Preparing Now

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Kenai Peninsula College Around Campus for the week of Nov. 19, 2018

Thanksgiving holiday closures this week

School Briefs 11/19-11/25

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School Briefs 11/19-11/25

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Alaska Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy, left, poses with Corri Feige, whom Dunleavy named Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, during a speech in Anchorage, Alaska, as his commissioner of Natural Resources. Feige has spent her career working in the energy sector, including as a geophysicist and consultant and in management-level positions. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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Dunleavy taps Feige to be Alaska Natural Resources head

JUNEAU (AP) — Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday named a former director of Alaska’s Division of Oil and…

A group of Alaska SeaLife Center Volunteers and members of the Wildlife Rescue Team release a male harbor seal into the wild on Bishop’s Beach in Homer, Alaska on Nov. 8, 2018. (Photo courtesy Alaska SeaLife Center)

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Rehabilitated seal released in Homer

The Alaska SeaLife Center released a male harbor seal named Hubbard back into the wild from Bishop’s Beach…

Life

Minister’s Message: In answer to the question, ‘Who Cares?’

Definition of Loss is any major reduction in a person’s resources, whether personal, material, or symbolic, to which…

Opinion

Opinion: Polls can only be as consistent as Alaska voters

Pollsters don’t make predictions. We just show how things are at a given moment in time. It’s such…

Refuge Notebook: Wildfire apprentice catches the fire bug

Sports

Refuge Notebook: Wildfire apprentice catches the fire bug

By ALLIE CUNNINGHAM

Tangled up in Blue: Hectic serenity of winter

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Tangled up in Blue: Hectic serenity of winter

It’s been a hectic winter for me so far, which is something for which I wasn’t prepared.

Opinion

Rich Lowry: There’s no ‘neo-Jim Crow’ in Georgia

In the overtime of the 2018 elections, the left can’t decide whether it opposes casting doubt on election…

Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Fourth Amendment, not gun rights, at issue in court case

Fourth Amendment, not gun rights, at issue in court case

Opinion

Bob Franken: To know him is to not know him

”I don’t know Matt Whitaker.” That was President Donald Trump, unmistakably signaling that Matthew Whitaker won’t be acting…