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Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion The road to Gray Cliff and Moose Point extends past the pavement in Captain Cook State Park, shown on Monday, April 11, 2016. Apache Corporation, which was exploring for oil and gas in the area, had announced plans to extend the road to Gray Cliff before the company's withdrawal from Alaska in March 2016. The company is engaged in talks with the Kenai Peninsula Borough to potentially donate its preliminary environmental and engineering work to the borough so it could pick up the project.

Borough moves forward on North Road extension plans

Plans are moving forward for the long-awaited Kenai Spur Highway extension past the current terminus at Captain Cook State Recreation Area. The road would provide… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion The road to Gray Cliff and Moose Point extends past the pavement in Captain Cook State Park, shown on Monday, April 11, 2016. Apache Corporation, which was exploring for oil and gas in the area, had announced plans to extend the road to Gray Cliff before the company's withdrawal from Alaska in March 2016. The company is engaged in talks with the Kenai Peninsula Borough to potentially donate its preliminary environmental and engineering work to the borough so it could pick up the project.

State opioid task force issues recommendations

The task force considering how to address the growing opioid addiction crisis in Alaska is seeking public comment on its first draft of recommendations. The… Continue reading

In this Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, photo, Fairbanks Police Department Sgt. Allen Brandt's uniform appears on stage during the funeral for Brandt at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. Hundreds of mourners including Gov. Bill Walker paid their respects Sunday at the funeral of the Fairbanks police officer killed in the line of duty. (Eric Engman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)

Fairbanks mourns slain police officer

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Hundreds of mourners including Gov. Bill Walker paid their respects Sunday at the funeral of a Fairbanks police officer killed in the… Continue reading

  • Nov 7, 2016
In this Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016, photo, Fairbanks Police Department Sgt. Allen Brandt's uniform appears on stage during the funeral for Brandt at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. Hundreds of mourners including Gov. Bill Walker paid their respects Sunday at the funeral of the Fairbanks police officer killed in the line of duty. (Eric Engman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Kareasa McElwain of Soldotna paints the front windows of the Kenai Specialty Clinics on Trading Bay Road on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. McElwain, who teaches painting classes through her business K Maria Arts, began offering custom window decoration for businesses this winter. She said she's done about 10 so far this season.

Photo: Finishing touches

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Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Kareasa McElwain of Soldotna paints the front windows of the Kenai Specialty Clinics on Trading Bay Road on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. McElwain, who teaches painting classes through her business K Maria Arts, began offering custom window decoration for businesses this winter. She said she's done about 10 so far this season.

Senate race features party twists

ANCHORAGE — When’s a Republican not a Republican, or a Libertarian for that matter? And could Alaska be turning blue? Here are some things to… Continue reading

  • Nov 7, 2016
  • By Mark Thiessen

Around Campus: ‘Gateway to the Associate Arts Degree’ program announced

Beginning in fall 2017, a residential based academic program called ‘Gateway to the AA and Beyond’ will be available to students. The program will create… Continue reading

  • Nov 6, 2016
  • By Suzie Kendrick
  • Schools

Around the District

School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 6 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new drainage outlet holds the Kenai Municipal Airport floatplane pond to its winter level of about 4 feet on Thursday, Nov. 3 in Kenai, Alaska. When filled to its summer level, the upper grate, surrounded by a ring-shaped barrier, will prevent it from overflowing.

Kenai airport finishes 2016 work with floatplane pond drainage, sinkhole filling

After a summer spent holding visiting floatplanes from around the state, the Kenai Municipal Airport’s floatplane pond is now a landing site for small groups… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new drainage outlet holds the Kenai Municipal Airport floatplane pond to its winter level of about 4 feet on Thursday, Nov. 3 in Kenai, Alaska. When filled to its summer level, the upper grate, surrounded by a ring-shaped barrier, will prevent it from overflowing.

Agencies, organizations work to count peninsula homeless

Right now, it’s impossible to say exactly how many people are homeless on the central Kenai Peninsula at any given time.Different agencies have guesses based… Continue reading

American seafood consumption stays the course

Though the U.S. government promotes seafood as an omega-3 fat-packed ambrosia deserving two meals a week, consumers aren’t biting.Despite being the second-largest seafood consuming nation,… Continue reading

  • Nov 6, 2016
  • By DJ SUMMERS

First Quarter Honor Rolls

4.0 — 8th Grade: James Baisden, Vanessa Beck, Erin Blum, Taylor Carver, Kaya Cox, Emmarie Edwards-Dean, Courtney Ellis, Caden Fields, Matthew Grzybowski, Gabrielle Hansen, Karley… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Sterling Elementary School's Kindness Ambassador speak at a school assembly kicking off the school's "21 Days of Kindness" challenge. Students are challenged throughout November to perform five acts of kindness every day and write it down on slips of paper in their classrooms and in the school office. At the end of the month, the slips will be chained together and hung around the school.

Sterling Elementary School focuses on kindness

Beyond just gifts, hugs and kind words, the teachers and staff at Sterling Elementary School are hoping students will find many ways to be kind… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Sterling Elementary School's Kindness Ambassador speak at a school assembly kicking off the school's "21 Days of Kindness" challenge. Students are challenged throughout November to perform five acts of kindness every day and write it down on slips of paper in their classrooms and in the school office. At the end of the month, the slips will be chained together and hung around the school.

J.R. Myers runs State House race as conservative

Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct a spelling error. J.R. Myers, a behavioral health consultant for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, is running… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna resident Leslie Meyer smiles as she speaks about her project for this year's National Novel Writing Month on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldotna, Alaska. The worldwide creative writing challenge kicks off at the beginning of November and asks participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days. The library in Soldotna will host writing days each Saturday where participants can get together to work and share ideas.

Photo: Literary legwork

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna resident Leslie Meyer smiles as she speaks about her project for this year’s National Novel Writing Month on Saturday,… Continue reading

  • Nov 5, 2016
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna resident Leslie Meyer smiles as she speaks about her project for this year's National Novel Writing Month on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016 at the Joyce K. Carver Memorial Library in Soldotna, Alaska. The worldwide creative writing challenge kicks off at the beginning of November and asks participants to write 50,000 words in 30 days. The library in Soldotna will host writing days each Saturday where participants can get together to work and share ideas.

Knopp combines past, present experience in office

When Gary Knopp returned to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in October 2015, he didn’t waste any time jumping back into leadership roles. Within the… Continue reading

Thornton brings energetic, giving attitude to race

Most of Shauna Thornton’s afternoon on Oct. 29 was spent spinning out cotton candy. The next day, she manned a station on the Tsalteshi Trails… Continue reading

Lynch makes nonpartisan run at House seat

Soldotna resident Daniel Lynch originally had no plans to come out of retirement — or his armchair, as he puts it. But the combination of… Continue reading

Photo by Elwood Brehmner/Alaska Journal of Commerce Surrounded by family, Gov. Bill Walker announces to Alaskans that he has been diagnosed with cancer during a briefing Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 at his office in Anchorage, Alaska.

Gov. Walker has ‘treatable’ form of cancer

Gov. Bill Walker stood with his family and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott to explain his prostate cancer diagnosis to Alaskans during a Friday afternoon briefing… Continue reading

  • Nov 4, 2016
  • By ELWOOD BREHMER
Photo by Elwood Brehmner/Alaska Journal of Commerce Surrounded by family, Gov. Bill Walker announces to Alaskans that he has been diagnosed with cancer during a briefing Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 at his office in Anchorage, Alaska.

Chenault runs against write-in candidate Pedro Fernandez

Republican Mike Chenault is running for his eighth term as the Alaska State House Representative for the northern Kenai Peninsula, opposed by a write-in campaign… Continue reading

Public weighs in on restoring Soldotna’s year-round sales tax

The city of Soldotna is eschewing the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s wintertime exemption on collecting sales tax on nonprepared food items and will collect the 3… Continue reading