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A makeshift memorial to Savanna Greywind featuring a painting, flowers, candle and a stuffed animal is seen on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Fargo, N.D., outside the apartment where Greywind lived with her parents. Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski from Alaska is taking up the cause for a bill aimed at helping law enforcement with cases of murdered and missing indigenous women. Former North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp introduced and helped pass Savanna’s Act in the Senate before she lost election, but it was blocked in the House by a retiring Republican. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File)

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Cold-case bill gains steam

Savanna’s Act aims to help law enforcement investigate cases of murdered and missing indigenous women

Nikiski Fire Station #2 can be seen here on July 15 in Nikiski. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion

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More money needed for Nikiski fire station

An ordinance asks that $1 million in additional appropriations be made for the project.

In this file photo, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, left, listens as Attorney General Kevin Clarkson describes three constitutional amendments that would be a foundation of his administration’s fiscal plan during a press conference at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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State pays back $50,000 over Alaska Hire lawsuit

State agrees to refund fines.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy holds a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Misuse of federal funds? Two Democrats call for investigation over how Alaska spent grant

Dunleavy is pushing back.

CERT volunteers go door to door while simulating a neighborhood evacuation in Kenai, Alaska, during OEM’s Alaska Shield 2019 program on April 13, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough to offer community emergency training

The training includes fire,search and rescue, disaster medical treatment and team organization.

From left, Priscilla Tapangco, Carol Kvasnikoff, Annaleah Karron, Mike Karron, Charlie Karron and Allison Karron smile for the camera during the Thanksgiving community potluck at College Heights Baptist Church in Soldotna, Alaska, on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. (Photo by Brian Mazurek/Peninsula Clarion)

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Church opens doors for community Thanksgiving

Many of the guests went around their tables and shared what they were thankful for this year.

Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission Chairman Blair Martin, Vice Chairman Robert Ruffner and Parliamentarian Rick Foster facilitate discussions on a gravel pit permit application on Monday, June 24, 2019, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Ordinance would affect gravel pit operations

Several of the proposed code changes were first explored in the borough’s Material Site Workgroup.

Alaska’s campaign finance laws attract national attention

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Alaska’s campaign finance laws attract national attention

Eyes are on higher courts.

Cracks in the road at Mile 19 of the Kenai Spur Highway can be seen after the Nov. 30, 2018, earthquake. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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Tyonek school to receive disaster funds

Tebughna School lost ceiling tiles in the gym after the November 2018 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

Kat Sorensen / Peninsula Clarion file Sienne Lautarette (left) and Emma Glassmaker welcomed Christmas to Kenai at the Christmas Comes to Kenai 2017 celebration at the Kenai Visitor Center.

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Christmas makes an early appearance in Kenai

This Friday marks the annual “Christmas Comes to Kenai” celebration

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Pierce makes appointments to anadromous work group

The work group includes members from the assembly, planning commission and 5 members of the public.

Tela Bacher holds a sign Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, at a vigil for Anesha “Duffy” Murnane, a Homer woman missing since Oct. 17, at WKFL Park in Homer, Alaska. Sinn helped organize the vigil. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Vigil held Saturday for missing Homer woman

Anesha “Duffy” Murnane has been missing since Oct. 17.

Lemon Creek Correctional Center. (Juneau Empire File)

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Legislators craft bill to keep Alaska prisoners in state

Alaska prisoners in Alaska.

Virginia Morgan takes the Oath of Office to serve District 6 representing Cooper Landing, Hope, Moose Pass, and Seward schools on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. (Photo courtesy Pegge Erkeneff/Kenai Peninsula Borough School District)

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Virginia Morgan appointed to vacant school board seat

The District 6 opened when Martha Fleming stepped down last month.

Residents of the Kenai Intentional Neighborhood celebrate the completion of their clubhouse with friends, family and Hope Community Resources board members in Soldotna, Alaska on Nov. 22, 2019. (Photo courtesy Kathy Fitzgerald)

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Kenai Intentional Neighborhood celebrates new clubhouse

A year into the project, residents of the neighborhood now have a central gathering place

Troopers to conduct Thanksgiving Enforcement Campaign

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Troopers to conduct Thanksgiving Enforcement Campaign

Troopers will be watch for speeding, driving impaired, driving aggressively or while distracted.

Task force on missing American Indians created

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Task force on missing American Indians created

Trump called the scourge facing American Indian women and girls “sobering and heartbreaking.”

This Jan. 5, 2010, photo provided by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Utqiagvik, Alaska, shows a functioning ice cellar, a type of underground food cache dug into the permafrost to provide natural refrigeration used for generations in far-north communities. Naturally cooled underground ice cellars, used in Alaska Native communities for generations, are becoming increasingly unreliable as a warming climate and other factors touch multiple facets of life in the far north. (Mike Brubaker/Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium via AP)

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Failing ice cellars signal changes in whaling towns

Scores of the naturally refrigerated food caches lie beneath these largely Inupiat communities.

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. A federal agency will decide by September how much ocean and coast will be designated as critical habitat for two ice seal species found in Alaska. The Center for Biological Diversity announced Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, it had reached an agreement with the Commerce Department for the Trump administration to issue a critical habitat rule for ringed and bearded seals. The Center for Biological Diversity sued in June because no critical habitat had been designated. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file)

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Agency agrees to designate habitat for threatened ice seals

Ringed and bearded seals use sea ice in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets to discuss school safety during a work session Monday in Soldotna. (Photo by Victoria Petersen/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board to interview applicants for vacant seat

There are four applicants for the District 6 vacancy — which covers the eastern peninsula.