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Saturday: Kenai hockey completes weekend sweep of Juneau

The visiting Kenai Central hockey team defeated Juneau-Douglas: Yadaa.at Kale 5-1 on Saturday to complete a two-game Northern…

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Saturday: Brown Bears complete sweep of Wolverines

The Kenai River Brown Bears completed a weekend sweep of the Anchorage Wolverines with a 4-3 shootout victory…

Cook Inlet Academy's Ian McGarry dribbles against Kenai Central's Ben Harris on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, at the Revolution Sport and Spine Therapy Al Howard Shootout at Soldotna High School in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Saturday hoops roundup: Kenai sweeps Al Howard titles

The Kenai Central girls and boys basketball teams won the Revolution Sport and Spine Therapy Al Howard Shootout…

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Friday: Bears score late to top Wolverines again

The Kenai River Brown Bears defeated the Anchorage Wolverines 6-5 on Friday at the Sullivan Arena in North…

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Friday hockey: Kardinals defeat Crimson Bears in overtime

The visiting Kenai Central hockey team defeated Juneau-Douglas: Yadaa.at Kale 5-4 in overtime Friday in Northern Lights Conference…

Soldotna's Anaulie Sedivy drives past Kenai Central's Ellsi Miller and Gracee Every on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, at the Revolution Sport and Spine Therapy Al Howard Shootout at Soldotna High School in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Friday hoops: Kenai sweeps SoHi at Howard tourney

The Kenai Central girls and boys basketball teams swept Soldotna on Friday at the Revolution Sport and Spine…

Ryan Tunseth speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in Soldotna, Alaska, on Dec. 3, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Borough considers Seward land purchase

A public hearing on Ordinance 2024-19-24 will be held at the Feb. 4 assembly meeting.

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Troopers shoot, kill 32-year-old Kasilof man after they say he shot a trooper

Troopers and a SWAT team responded to reports of a man yelling and firing a gun late Thursday…

Dave Atcheson demonstrates fly casting into the Kenai River to a crowd of middle schoolers during a kids camp put on by Trout Unlimited on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at the Donald E. Gilman Kenai River Center in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Local Trout Unlimited chapter hosts winter speaker series

Dave Atcheson will talk where, how to fish in Kenai Peninsula lakes on Feb. 4.

Owen Braband, Hyrum Henderson and Ian McGarry of Cook Inlet Academy celebrate a victory over Soldotna at the Revolution Sport and Spine Therapy Al Howard Shootout on Thursday, January 23, 2025, at Soldotna High School in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

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Thursday hoops roundup: CIA boys knock off Soldotna

The Cook Inlet Academy boys, Kenai girls and boys, and Soldotna girls all recorded victories Thursday at the…

Josiah Kelly, right, appears for a superior court arraignment at the Kenai Courthouse in Kenai, Alaska, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Competency exam scheduled for Kelly

Josiah Kelly was arrested in November for three shooting incidents in Homer.

The Kenai Public Dock is seen on Friday, June 18, 2021, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai to repurpose funds from completed projects for dock repair

The largest share of the funds comes from a state grant of $1.9 million received in 2014.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) walks to the Senate chamber ahead of a vote at the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)

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Murkowski says she will vote against Hegseth, making her 1st GOP senator to oppose a Trump Cabinet pick

Defense Secretary nominee facing barrage of accusations including sexual assault, drinking.

President Trump signed a series of executive orders in the first hours of his term. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

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Birthright citizenship of Native Americans questioned by Trump administration

Justice Department makes argument defending executive order suspending birthright citizenship.

Retiring Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Manager Andy Loranger speaks on his career during a retirement event at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center near Soldotna on Tuesday. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Celebrating careers dedicated to protecting wild places

Delehanty, Loranger retire from refuge management on Kenai Peninsula.

Kenai City Manager Terry Eubank speaks during a work session of the Kenai City Council in Kenai, Alaska, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Kenai adopts capital project plan

The plan includes funding for the airport, city infrastructure and roadways.

Soldotna Elementary School on Friday, May 13, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly appropriates funds to investigate school bond options

The ordinance appropriates $81,706 for the work.

Volunteers sit at rows of tables or in curtained off booths during Project Homeless Connect on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Project Homeless Connect returns to Soldotna

The event is scheduled to run Tuesday, Jan. 28, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Soldotna…

Senators Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage), Bert Stedman (R-Sitka), and Lyman Hoffman (D-Bethel) discuss key priorities for the Senate Majority Caucus on Tuesday morning at the Alaska State Capitol. (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire)

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As session starts, senators discuss legislative priorities

The Alaska Senate majority and minority held separate press conferences Tuesday.

From left: Alaska House Reps. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak; Bill Elam, R-Nikiski; Justin Ruffridge, R-Soldotna; and Sarah Vance, R-Homer, take the oath of office at the Alaska Capitol on Tuesday in Juneau. (Photo by Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)

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Peninsula legislators take oaths of office

Sen. Jesse Bjorkman and Reps. Justin Ruffridge, Bill Elam and Sarah Vance were among those sworn in.