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Peninsula Crime Stoppers provide safe place to send tips

Kenai Peninsula law enforcement officers have a tool they can call on when leads on a particular crime are few and far between or just… Continue reading

Whittier tunnel closed due to rock fall

The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, also known as the Whittier Tunnel, is closed until further notice due to a rock fall hazard inside the tunnel,… Continue reading

  • Oct 25, 2016

What’s killing Shell Lake’s sockeye salmon?

If any fish population in Upper Cook Inlet could be considered in trouble, Shell Lake’s sockeye could.The lake in the Matanuska-Susitna region, located northwest of… Continue reading

Murkowski attorney: Contributions to Alaska GOP were legal

JUNEAU — An attorney for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s campaign said Tuesday that contributions the campaign made to the Alaska Republican party were legal.Attorney Timothy… Continue reading

  • Oct 25, 2016
  • By Becky Bohrer

Walker puts hold on pension bond sale

The Walker administration has put its plan to sell up to $3.3 billion in pension obligation bonds on hold.Gov. Bill Walker said Tuesday in a… Continue reading

Teacher, support staff unions vote to ratify contract

Editor's note: This story has been updated to show that the tentative agreement reached by the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, the Kenai Peninsula Educational… Continue reading

Paying to work

Juniper Lanmon-Freeman cried the first time she attended the birth of a child. A licensed midwife, Lanmon-Freeman now delivers two to three babies per month… Continue reading

In this April 1, 2009, photo provided by the USGS Alaska Science Center shows a black-capped chickadee with a deformed beak in Anchorage, Alaska. Researchers are hoping they've found what's causing beaks of some bird species to grow twice as fast as normal. The disease is called avian keratin disorder. Affected birds grow beaks that are freakishly long and that sometimes curve up or down. (Handel Colleen/USGS Alaska Science Center via AP)

Researchers link virus to birds with deformed beaks

ANCHORAGE — Biologist Colleen Handel saw her first black-capped chickadee with the heartrending disorder in 1998.The tiny birds showed up at birdfeeders in Alaska’s largest… Continue reading

  • Oct 24, 2016
  • By Dan Joling
In this April 1, 2009, photo provided by the USGS Alaska Science Center shows a black-capped chickadee with a deformed beak in Anchorage, Alaska. Researchers are hoping they've found what's causing beaks of some bird species to grow twice as fast as normal. The disease is called avian keratin disorder. Affected birds grow beaks that are freakishly long and that sometimes curve up or down. (Handel Colleen/USGS Alaska Science Center via AP)

GOP chair files election complaint against Miller

JUNEAU (AP) — The chairman of the Alaska Republican Party has filed an election complaint against Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, claiming Miller effectively… Continue reading

  • Oct 24, 2016

First marijuana testing lab opens in Anchorage

ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s first marijuana testing laboratory opened for business Monday, offering cannabis analysis for retail outlets and commercial or private growers.CannTest LLC, operating in… Continue reading

  • Oct 24, 2016
  • By Dan Joling

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

Kenai Peninsula College: Around Campus

As one of three surviving delegates to the 1955 Alaska Constitutional Convention, Vic Fischer is uniquely qualified to shed light on the intent of the… Continue reading

  • Oct 23, 2016
  • By Suzie Kendrick
  • Schools
Kaye Fariday helps a boy /name??// from Fireweed Academy bag food at the Homer Food Pantry on Sept. 26 at Homer United Methodist Church.

Homer Food Pantry use increasing

The Homer Community Food Pantry experienced a 115 percent increase in people seeking food assistance between 2013 and 2015. Though the food pantry’s customers have… Continue reading

Kaye Fariday helps a boy /name??// from Fireweed Academy bag food at the Homer Food Pantry on Sept. 26 at Homer United Methodist Church.
Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Mountain View Elementary second graders Elsa Meyer, 7, and Devin Seaton, 7, wait under their desks with their head and necks covered during this year's Great Alaska ShakeOut earthquake drill Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 at the school in Kenai, Alaska.

Shake it up: Mountain View joins district in Great Alaska ShakeOut drill

Students in Renee Christensen’s second grade class at Mountain View Elementary in Kenai had just finished their morning snack and were eagerly rattling off answers… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Mountain View Elementary second graders Elsa Meyer, 7, and Devin Seaton, 7, wait under their desks with their head and necks covered during this year's Great Alaska ShakeOut earthquake drill Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 at the school in Kenai, Alaska.
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Tom Toguchi of Anchorage caught a king salmon in the Anchor River on the morning of Saturday, May 21, 2016. The river is open for king salmon fishing on May 28-30 and June 1 next week, as well as additional days in June. The limit is one king salmon 20 inches or greater per day per person, five total in possession with only two able to come from the Anchor River or the Anchor River and Deep Creek combined.

Chinook salmon returns still below average

This year’s improvement in king salmon returns in many stream systems across the state may not be the end of a prolonged period of low… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Tom Toguchi of Anchorage caught a king salmon in the Anchor River on the morning of Saturday, May 21, 2016. The river is open for king salmon fishing on May 28-30 and June 1 next week, as well as additional days in June. The limit is one king salmon 20 inches or greater per day per person, five total in possession with only two able to come from the Anchor River or the Anchor River and Deep Creek combined.
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Drivers make their way across the Sterling Highway bridge over the Kenai River on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is conducting repairs on the bridge over the river and has reduced traffic to one lane in either driection. The repairs are scheduled to be finished by Monday, Oct. 31, according to Alaska 511.

Photo: Narrow crossing ahead

Drivers make their way across the Sterling Highway bridge over the Kenai River on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Alaska Department of… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Drivers make their way across the Sterling Highway bridge over the Kenai River on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is conducting repairs on the bridge over the river and has reduced traffic to one lane in either driection. The repairs are scheduled to be finished by Monday, Oct. 31, according to Alaska 511.

Kasilof man dies in car accident

A Saturday night car accident on Kalifornsky Beach Road left a Kasilof man dead.The man, Billy Duncan, 26, was pronounced dead on scene. Alaska State… Continue reading

Kenai could consider legislative funding priorities

Kenai City Council members discussed Wednesday what projects they will request state money for in the coming year, or if they will make formal requests… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new phone app called Time of Need, pictured in use Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska, collects informtion on resources that would be helpful to those who are homeless or near homeless and organizes them in order of proximity to the user. Launched earlier this year, the app uses very little data and can also be used offline. A version of the app for Android phones is future a goal of its creators.

Help at arm’s reach

A project designed to simplify finding help for Alaska’s homeless population and inspired by a former University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student’s work with homeless… Continue reading

Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A new phone app called Time of Need, pictured in use Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska, collects informtion on resources that would be helpful to those who are homeless or near homeless and organizes them in order of proximity to the user. Launched earlier this year, the app uses very little data and can also be used offline. A version of the app for Android phones is future a goal of its creators.

DOT makes quick fix to broken Kenai traffic light

Motorists trying to get through their evening commutes found an unusual road block Thursday at the intersection of Kalifornsky Beach Road and Bridge Access Road,… Continue reading