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Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Sunrise peeks over the top of the mountains to light up Bridge Access Road on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. Sunrise is migrating later in the morning as the winter approaches. The sun rose at 7:35 a.m. in Kenai on Monday and will rise two to three minutes later every morning until the winter solstice on Dec. 22, when the days will get longer again, according to the U.S. Navy's sunrise and sunset tables.

Photo: Earlier to bed, later to rise

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Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Sunrise peeks over the top of the mountains to light up Bridge Access Road on Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. Sunrise is migrating later in the morning as the winter approaches. The sun rose at 7:35 a.m. in Kenai on Monday and will rise two to three minutes later every morning until the winter solstice on Dec. 22, when the days will get longer again, according to the U.S. Navy's sunrise and sunset tables.

Indian Education Advisory Committee sets goals

Editor's note: This article has been updated to clarify that ANSEP offers high school academies, but that middle school students from the Kenai Peninsula Borough… Continue reading

District 30 candidates gear up for last month of campaigning

With less than a month to go until the general election, the four candidates for the Alaska House of Representatives seat for District 30 are… Continue reading

Commissioner turns down challenge of predator control rules

FAIRBANKS (AP) — Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game commissioner has rejected calls from petitioners critical of the state’s predator control rules to change the… Continue reading

S&P puts Alaska back on CreditWatch negative

The State of Alaska is continuing the process to sell up to $3.3 billion in pension obligation bonds after receiving mixed reviews from the major… Continue reading

School district to hold budget meetings

At a series of public meetings on Oct. 13, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will begin confronting a budget for next year that may… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Kathryn Dunagan (right) embraces longtime Amundsen Educational Center instructor Judi Walgenbach (left) at a retirement party for Walgenbach on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. Walgenbach, who founded the New Frontiers vocational learning center before it merged with the Amundson Educational Center, is retiring after 30 years of teaching. Former students, board members and friends swirled around her at the retirement party Thursday with gifts, handshakes and hugs.

Photo: Old friends, new adventures

Judi Walgenbach (left) receives an embrace from former student Kathryn Dunagan at a retirement party for Walgenbach on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska.… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Kathryn Dunagan (right) embraces longtime Amundsen Educational Center instructor Judi Walgenbach (left) at a retirement party for Walgenbach on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 in Soldotna, Alaska. Walgenbach, who founded the New Frontiers vocational learning center before it merged with the Amundson Educational Center, is retiring after 30 years of teaching. Former students, board members and friends swirled around her at the retirement party Thursday with gifts, handshakes and hugs.

Plane makes emergency landing in Sterling, pilot unhurt

A cockpit full of smoke forced a pilot to make an emergency landing near Sterling on Sunday.Central Emergency Services responded to a call for help… Continue reading

Mallott, British Columbia ink MOU over transboundary mines

Mallott, British Columbia ink MOU over transboundary mines

Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott signed an agreement with Canadian officials Thursday, marking a step toward cooperation in protecting Southeast Alaska’s border-straddling rivers from proposed… Continue reading

Mallott, British Columbia ink MOU over transboundary mines

Schools News

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 6 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley Street in Soldotna (unless… Continue reading

Around Campus: KPC recruiter hits the ground running

Emily Knight, KPC’s new and first ever recruiter, started her employment on Aug. 1 and hasn’t slowed down since. Knight comes to the position with… Continue reading

  • Oct 9, 2016
  • By Suzie Kendrick
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Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Bob Patterson and his daughter Rowen Patterson, both Kenai, wait in the lobby of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe's Dena'ina Wellness Center on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. With an Americorps grant, the Kenaitze Indian Tribe will soon add a legal fellow to its center, with free services available to low-income and some qualifying customers.

Alaska Legal Services, Kenaitze partnership places lawyer in health clinic

A patient at Kenai’s Dena’ina Wellness Center may present with anxiety, but sometimes underlying that anxiety is a social problem like impending homelessness. Doctors sometimes… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Bob Patterson and his daughter Rowen Patterson, both Kenai, wait in the lobby of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe's Dena'ina Wellness Center on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. With an Americorps grant, the Kenaitze Indian Tribe will soon add a legal fellow to its center, with free services available to low-income and some qualifying customers.

Alaska senators say they won’t support Trump

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Both of Alaska’s U.S. senators are joining the ranks of Republican leaders who say they are dumping Donald Trump as the… Continue reading

  • Oct 8, 2016
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND Oct. 8-9, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 27, 2016 photo, lettering and an eagle carving are displayed on the side of the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska. For the past four decades, the center has worked to preserve Native totem poles and artifacts from around Southeast Alaska. The center, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, was founded after a group of Native elders started talking in the 1960s and expressed concern about the state of totem poles in the region. (Taylor Balkom/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

Totem Heritage Center marks 40 years

KETCHIKAN, Alaska — For the past four decades, the Totem Heritage Center has worked to preserve Native totem poles and artifacts from around southeast Alaska.… Continue reading

  • Oct 8, 2016
  • By MATT ARMSTRONG
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND Oct. 8-9, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 27, 2016 photo, lettering and an eagle carving are displayed on the side of the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan, Alaska. For the past four decades, the center has worked to preserve Native totem poles and artifacts from around Southeast Alaska. The center, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, was founded after a group of Native elders started talking in the 1960s and expressed concern about the state of totem poles in the region. (Taylor Balkom/Ketchikan Daily News via AP)

Glacial dam release raises river levels

Kenai Peninsula residents along the Kenai River could notice higher-than-normal water levels this weekend as a glacial dam releases above Skilak Lake.The Skilak Glacier Dammed… Continue reading

Homer Police Department Community Jail Officer Rick Pitta brings John Suter into the Homer District Courthouse for s his arraignment on Friday morning, Oct. 7.

Cops catch man after high-speed chase

A high-speed chase on Thursday afternoon in Homer and Anchor Point began with a drunk-driver report and ended with the suspect coming out of a… Continue reading

Homer Police Department Community Jail Officer Rick Pitta brings John Suter into the Homer District Courthouse for s his arraignment on Friday morning, Oct. 7.

Kenai passes watered down cat ordinance

Kenai municipal code — which previously stated that free-roaming animals in the city can be impounded by animal control officers — now has an addition… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Flowers are beginning to die and colors change in the field of flowers, pictured Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 on Lawton Avenue in Kenai as temperatures dip lower and lower. The Parks and Recreation Department is throwing a first ever Fall Pumpkin Festival on Oct. 15 to give residents a fun way to transition into colder weather.

Fall pumpkin patch comes to Kenai

Kenai’s field of flowers will become a multipurpose piece of property with the inception of the city’s first ever Fall Pumpkin Festival later this month.… Continue reading

Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Flowers are beginning to die and colors change in the field of flowers, pictured Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 on Lawton Avenue in Kenai as temperatures dip lower and lower. The Parks and Recreation Department is throwing a first ever Fall Pumpkin Festival on Oct. 15 to give residents a fun way to transition into colder weather.

State to process portion of backlogged rape kits

The state of Alaska will soon process and analyze more than 1,000 sexual assault kits currently in the possession of Alaska State Troopers thanks to… Continue reading

Superior Court judge overturns election result for North Slope seat in Legislature

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew Guidi has given Rep. Benjamin Nageak, D-Barrow, the victory in his House District 40 primary, reversing the result on Election… Continue reading