Kindergarten students at Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science acted out a scene from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Thursday, March 9, 2017 as the culmination of Artist In Residence Elizabeth Ware’s work with the students. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

Kaleidoscope students channel the Bard

All the world’s a stage, and on Thursday afternoon, the students at Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science were the players. After two weeks with… Continue reading

  • Mar 11, 2017
  • By KAT SORENSEN
Kindergarten students at Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science acted out a scene from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Thursday, March 9, 2017 as the culmination of Artist In Residence Elizabeth Ware’s work with the students. (Kat Sorensen/Peninsula Clarion)

Stock: In Alaska, travel bans affect soldiers, oil workers, families

After President Donald Trump released his Jan. 27 executive order suspending people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S, the first call Anchorage immigration… Continue reading

This map, included in a Tuesday, March 7 workgroup presentation to members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, outlines in yellow the boundary of a proposed emergency service area covering the highway corridors of the eastern peninsula, with existing borough emergency service areas shaded in purple. Green dots show volunteer-staffed emergency service stations in Cooper Landing, Moose Pass, and Hope. Red dots are the stations of existing service areas.

Borough to explore emergency services fix

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly took a first step Tuesday toward securing emergency services in an area that has few residents, but sees thousands of… Continue reading

This map, included in a Tuesday, March 7 workgroup presentation to members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, outlines in yellow the boundary of a proposed emergency service area covering the highway corridors of the eastern peninsula, with existing borough emergency service areas shaded in purple. Green dots show volunteer-staffed emergency service stations in Cooper Landing, Moose Pass, and Hope. Red dots are the stations of existing service areas.

Alaska senators meet with president, appeal for lands access

ANCHORAGE — President Donald Trump has never been to Alaska, so the state’s two U.S. senators brought Alaska to him. In a one-hour “Alaska-centric” meeting,… Continue reading

  • Mar 9, 2017
  • By Dan Joling
In this Oct. 10, 2014, file photo, snow falls around a sign in Barrow, Alaska. A court hearing is set for Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Alaska for the two sides in a lawsuit challenging the new Inupiat Eskimo name of the nation’s northernmost town. Voters in the town formerly known as Barrow approved the new name, Utqiagvik, by six votes last October. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Judge weighs lawsuit challenging new name of Alaska town

ANCHORAGE (AP) — Those suing over the new Inupiat Eskimo name of the nation’s northernmost town said Thursday that the Alaska city broke its own… Continue reading

  • Mar 9, 2017
  • By The Associated Press
In this Oct. 10, 2014, file photo, snow falls around a sign in Barrow, Alaska. A court hearing is set for Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Alaska for the two sides in a lawsuit challenging the new Inupiat Eskimo name of the nation’s northernmost town. Voters in the town formerly known as Barrow approved the new name, Utqiagvik, by six votes last October. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

KWF’s Adopt-A-Stream program seeks funding

The Kenai Watershed Forum’s Adopt-A-Stream program will cease operations this May unless new sources of funding are found. The program has worked to educate central… Continue reading

  • Mar 9, 2017
  • By KAT SORENSEN

Soldotna moves forward to clear ‘nuisance’ property

Soldotna is taking the next step in clearing off a piece of property in town that neighbors have described as an eyesore and a cause… Continue reading

Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, lower right, holds a graph showing the rise in opioid overdose deaths during a Senate Majority press conference on justice reform at the Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Attending also are Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, lower left, Sen. Chip Bishop, R-Fairbanks, upper left, Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, and Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Eagle River, upper right. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

Lawmakers, law enforcement take another look at criminal justice reform

Debate about how to balance offender reform with the need for public safety continues as legislators shoot to roll back some provisions of a controversial… Continue reading

Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, lower right, holds a graph showing the rise in opioid overdose deaths during a Senate Majority press conference on justice reform at the Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Attending also are Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole, lower left, Sen. Chip Bishop, R-Fairbanks, upper left, Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage, Senate President Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks, and Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Eagle River, upper right. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

School district shares quarterly report with borough assembly

Superintendent Sean Dusek presented the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District quarterly report to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday night, highlighting KPBSD’s successes and… Continue reading

What’s Happening

Best Bet n The Good Time Travelers are a multi-instrumental duo with a vibe so big they have been described as a “2-piece power trio.”… Continue reading

  • Mar 8, 2017

Path forward after Kodiak sockeye genetic study unclear

A revelation that a large portion of sockeye harvested by Kodiak commercial seine fishermen originate in Cook Inlet may change the way the fisheries are… Continue reading

Kenn Carpenter appointed to Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly

Kenn Carpenter, a procurement specialist at Seward’s AVTEC vocational training school, will represent Seward, Cooper Landing, Moose Pass, Hope, east Sterling, and other areas of… Continue reading

Hilcorp given May 1 deadline to repair leaking pipeline

Editor's note: This story has been changed to correct a typographical error: its statement that the 2014 pipeline leaks were caused by shifting rocks originally and… Continue reading

Board of Education presents preliminary budget despite fiscal uncertainties

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Board of Education presented a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2018, cautioning that it is a work in progress… Continue reading

Sockeye salmon caught in a set gillnet wait to be set to the a processor on July 11, 2016 near Kenai. On Tuesday, the Alaska Board of Fisheries discussed proposals for Northern District setnetters. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

No change for northern district setnets

Despite a suite of requests for both further restriction or liberalization of the commercial set gillnet fishery in the northern district of Upper Cook Inlet,… Continue reading

Sockeye salmon caught in a set gillnet wait to be set to the a processor on July 11, 2016 near Kenai. On Tuesday, the Alaska Board of Fisheries discussed proposals for Northern District setnetters. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion, file)

Attorneys offer new resolution to Soldotna sex abuse case

A former Soldotna-area karate teacher who last year pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor said he needs more time to consider a new… Continue reading

Police kill Eagle River veteran after standoff near Denver

A former Eagle River resident and Marine reservist was shot and killed by police after a standoff near Denver on Friday. According to the Denver… Continue reading

1 killed, 2 hurt in Seward Highway crash

A Nikiski man is dead and two others injured after a Monday night accident on the Seward Highway near Portage. The Soldotna Safety Communications Center… Continue reading

  • Mar 7, 2017
Teresa Reger (left, with sign) and Susie Stafford wave to passing cars at the annual demonstration in support of disability services by the Key Coalition advocacy group, held this year on Friday in Soldotna. Reger and Stafford are both parents of disabled adult children who receive services through the program the Key Campaign seeks to preserve. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

‘Integration and independence’: Activists raise awareness for programs for people with disabilities

For 30 years the disability services activists of Alaska’s Key Campaign have been holding annual statewide demonstrations in towns like Soldotna — where demonstrators gathered… Continue reading

Teresa Reger (left, with sign) and Susie Stafford wave to passing cars at the annual demonstration in support of disability services by the Key Coalition advocacy group, held this year on Friday in Soldotna. Reger and Stafford are both parents of disabled adult children who receive services through the program the Key Campaign seeks to preserve. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Board passes sweeping change for early run kings

Early run Kenai River king salmon will now have more protection in the middle river and management will be more conservative after the Board of… Continue reading