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This March 29, 2017 photo shows Central Peninsula Hospital’s River Tower, which houses specialty medical services, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

CPH moves forward with expansion project

Central Peninsula Hospital is moving forward with the plans for an expansion of its obstetrics wing and the construction of a new catheterization lab. The… Continue reading

This March 29, 2017 photo shows Central Peninsula Hospital’s River Tower, which houses specialty medical services, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)
Volunteers pack up the Homer Senior Citizens Center’s new Subaru outback with meals to be delivered through its Meals on Wheels program Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 at the center in Homer, Alaska. The center got the vehicle through a grant specifically to help with meal deliveries. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)

Homer’s Meals on Wheels program gets new Subaru after winning grant

Those who are signed up to get daily deliveries from the Homer Senior Citizens Center’s Meals on Wheels program may start seeing their food brought… Continue reading

Volunteers pack up the Homer Senior Citizens Center’s new Subaru outback with meals to be delivered through its Meals on Wheels program Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 at the center in Homer, Alaska. The center got the vehicle through a grant specifically to help with meal deliveries. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
“I’m most grateful for my family, friends and probably growing up in Alaska is one of the things that I’m most grateful for. I think about how people grow up in cities and don’t get to experience what we experience.” Emily Glaves, Soldotna, 20

Giving thanks

Clarion staff ask what Kenai Peninsula residents are thankful for.… Continue reading

  • Nov 22, 2017
  • By Peninsula Clarion staff
“I’m most grateful for my family, friends and probably growing up in Alaska is one of the things that I’m most grateful for. I think about how people grow up in cities and don’t get to experience what we experience.” Emily Glaves, Soldotna, 20

Trees caused HEA outages in Sterling

Birch trees laden with snow and ice will — as poet Robert Frost memorialized in his piece “Birches” — often “bend to left and right/across… Continue reading

Michael Penn | Juneau Empire file

Legislators launch secret internal investigation

The Alaska Legislature’s internal Legislative Council is opening an internal investigation, but after a six-hour closed-door meeting, lawmakers on Tuesday refused to reveal the subject… Continue reading

Michael Penn | Juneau Empire file

Bed tax decision delayed until March

The proposed bed tax before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly won’t go anywhere until at least March. The assembly approved an amendment at its Tuesday… Continue reading

Santa greets a crowd of excited families as he cruises into the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center parking lot on a Kenai Fire Department engine Nov. 25, 2016 in Kenai. (Clarion file photo)

Christmas coming to Kenai

Santa Claus is coming to Kenai, and he’s bringing the rest of Christmas along with him. This Friday, the Kenai Chamber of Commerce invites the… Continue reading

  • Nov 22, 2017
  • By KAT SORENSEN
Santa greets a crowd of excited families as he cruises into the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center parking lot on a Kenai Fire Department engine Nov. 25, 2016 in Kenai. (Clarion file photo)
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Gal Gadot, from left, Ben Affleck and Ezra Miller in a scene from “Justice League.” (Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. via AP)

Reeling it in: Wonder Woman can’t save ‘Justice League’

“Justice League” Warner Bros. 2 hours I swear, I’m trying to like these movies. I have friends that enjoy the DC Universe and I know… Continue reading

  • Nov 22, 2017
  • By Chris Jenness
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Gal Gadot, from left, Ben Affleck and Ezra Miller in a scene from “Justice League.” (Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. via AP)

Poet’s Corner: Ignited Kingdom

Ignited Kingdom By Rebecca Langston, Kenai Now the fire’s burning, and they fan the flames, With their printed signs, and their protest claims. And we… Continue reading

  • Nov 22, 2017
The Bookworm Sez: ‘What Unites Us’ looks across the divide

The Bookworm Sez: ‘What Unites Us’ looks across the divide

The rift sometimes seems Grand-Canyon wide. Blue on one side, red on the other with contentious policies, belief systems, and political stances in between. Can… Continue reading

The Bookworm Sez: ‘What Unites Us’ looks across the divide

Voznesenka man convicted in fed court of felon possessing firearms

A federal jury in Anchorage last Wednesday, Nov. 15, found guilty a Voznesenka man for being a felon in possession of firearms. Sentencing for Joseph… Continue reading

Gov. Walker reveals details of Chinese gas pipeline deal

Gov. Bill Walker on Tuesday released the details of a multibillion-dollar agreement signed between Alaska and China earlier this month and promised reporters at a… Continue reading

Checkmate: chess club meets at library

Checkmate: chess club meets at library

Checkmate John Straughn contemplates his opponent Ben Gozeski’s move during a chess match at the Kenai Community Library at chess night on Tuesday. Straughn plays… Continue reading

Checkmate: chess club meets at library
A pair of personal-use dipnet-caught sockeye chill out in a cooler on the Kenai Beach before being packed off for the day Tuesday, July 11, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

Forecast predicts another below-average sockeye year

Next year’s sockeye salmon forecast for Upper Cook Inlet looks only slightly rosier than this year’s forecast. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released… Continue reading

A pair of personal-use dipnet-caught sockeye chill out in a cooler on the Kenai Beach before being packed off for the day Tuesday, July 11, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)
Attendees at the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s drone technical conference check out drones on a side table at the Challenger Learning Center on Tuesday in Kenai (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

Peninsula professionals talk drones

Kenai Peninsula professionals are starting to look at using unmanned aerial vehicles for industries ranging from real estate to ecosystem management. A crowd of about… Continue reading

Attendees at the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s drone technical conference check out drones on a side table at the Challenger Learning Center on Tuesday in Kenai (Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion)

Alaskans tendency is to vote no to judge retention

Alaskans may pass a negative judgement on their judges too easily, despite Alaska’s merit-based process for selecting and retaining judges, according to retired Alaska Superior… Continue reading

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2003, file photo, from left, Clemson’s Maggie Slosser, Lakeia Stokes, Julie Talley and Julie Aderhold sit on the bench after Clemson’s 61-58 loss to Alasaka-Anchorage in the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout on in Anchorage, Alaska. Shootout fans over the years witnessed the best of college basketball, with Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan State and UCLA winning titles, but the end is near. The 40th Shootout will be the last, a victim of changed rules and competition.(AP Photo/Michael Dinneen, file

Competition, expense bring curtain down on Alaska Shootout

ANCHORAGE — Four decades ago, Alaska Anchorage head basketball coach Bob Rachal was looking to promote the program, and while rubbing shoulders with coaches from… Continue reading

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2003, file photo, from left, Clemson’s Maggie Slosser, Lakeia Stokes, Julie Talley and Julie Aderhold sit on the bench after Clemson’s 61-58 loss to Alasaka-Anchorage in the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout on in Anchorage, Alaska. Shootout fans over the years witnessed the best of college basketball, with Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan State and UCLA winning titles, but the end is near. The 40th Shootout will be the last, a victim of changed rules and competition.(AP Photo/Michael Dinneen, file

Board of Game turns down feral cat proposal

Colonies of domestic feral cats occupy corners of Alaska, and after the state Board of Game turned down two proposals Friday related to controlling their… Continue reading

In this September photo made with a drone, a young resident killer whale chases a chinook salmon in the Salish Sea near San Juan Island, Wash. The photo, made under a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) permit, which gives researchers permission to approach the animals, was made in collaboration with NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center, SR3 Sealife Response, Rehabilitation, and Research and the Vancouver Aquarium’s Coastal Ocean Research Institute. Endangered Puget Sound orcas that feed on chinook salmon face more competition from seals, sea lions and other killer whales than from commercial and recreational fishermen, a new study finds. (John Durban/NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center via AP)

Endangered orcas compete with seals, sea lions for salmon

SEATTLE — Harbor seals, sea lions and some fish-eating killer whales have been rebounding along the Northeast Pacific Ocean in recent decades. But that boom… Continue reading

  • Nov 20, 2017
  • By PHUONG LE
In this September photo made with a drone, a young resident killer whale chases a chinook salmon in the Salish Sea near San Juan Island, Wash. The photo, made under a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) permit, which gives researchers permission to approach the animals, was made in collaboration with NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center, SR3 Sealife Response, Rehabilitation, and Research and the Vancouver Aquarium’s Coastal Ocean Research Institute. Endangered Puget Sound orcas that feed on chinook salmon face more competition from seals, sea lions and other killer whales than from commercial and recreational fishermen, a new study finds. (John Durban/NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center via AP)
Two moose trot through deep snow to seek fresh browse near Kenai’s Floatplane Road on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. The pair were accompanied by a third, older moose (not pictured), possibly a mother. Drivers should keep in mind that moose are often accompanied by their calves through the winter — after a near miss with a moose on the road, it’s best to remember that a younger moose may follow it out of the woods. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Moose riding caboose

Two moose trot through deep snow to seek fresh browse near Kenai’s Floatplane Road on Monday in Kenai. The pair were accompanied by a third,… Continue reading

  • Nov 20, 2017
Two moose trot through deep snow to seek fresh browse near Kenai’s Floatplane Road on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 in Kenai, Alaska. The pair were accompanied by a third, older moose (not pictured), possibly a mother. Drivers should keep in mind that moose are often accompanied by their calves through the winter — after a near miss with a moose on the road, it’s best to remember that a younger moose may follow it out of the woods. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)