Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Jeremy Ruggiero properly falls off the Key Log during a timed roll Monday, July 11, 2016, at the Nikiski Pool in Nikiski, Alaska.

On a roll at the Nikiski Pool

Logrolling is not as hard as a looks — at least in the eyes of the group of swimmers at Nikiski Pool training for the… Continue reading

  • Jul 11, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Jeremy Ruggiero properly falls off the Key Log during a timed roll Monday, July 11, 2016, at the Nikiski Pool in Nikiski, Alaska.

Walker: Alaska faces fiscal crisis amid legislative inaction

JUNEAU — Gov. Bill Walker said Monday that the state is in a fiscal crisis as a result of legislative inaction in the face of… Continue reading

Anchorage LIO owners file complaint against state

The owners of the controversial downtown Anchorage Legislative Information Office Building have filed a claim seeking $37 million from the state of Alaska.In the claim,… Continue reading

Rally celebrates freedom

Rally celebrates freedom

Several hundred turned out at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at KCHS on the Sunday before Independence Day for the 25th Annual Happy Birthday America!… Continue reading

Rally celebrates freedom
Veterans with PTS

Veterans with PTS

The first event to support a new program for veterans known as Healing Hearts & Paws was held in June at the Blue Moose Bed… Continue reading

Veterans with PTS
Annual world series of baseball by Frontier Comm

Annual world series of baseball by Frontier Comm

The last day of June was a great one for baseball as Frontier Community Services brought 83 some ball players to the Soldotna Little League… Continue reading

Annual world series of baseball by Frontier Comm
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Victor Mallari, 10, proudly displays the sockeye salmon his father caught in his dipnet at the Kenai beach in Kenai, Alaska, on Sunday, July 10, 2016. The popular Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery opened Sunday morning at 6 a.m. and will be open until July 31.

Photo: Got a live one

Got a live oneVictor Mallari, 10, proudly displays the sockeye salmon his father caught in their dipnet on the north Kenai beach in Kenai on… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Victor Mallari, 10, proudly displays the sockeye salmon his father caught in his dipnet at the Kenai beach in Kenai, Alaska, on Sunday, July 10, 2016. The popular Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery opened Sunday morning at 6 a.m. and will be open until July 31.

5th special session starts today

JUNEAU — State legislators are poised to meet Monday for their fifth special session in two years, with Gov. Bill Walker saying they need to… Continue reading

  • Jul 10, 2016
  • By Becky Bohrer

Nikiski swimmers assist attempt to break world’s largest swim lesson record

The 29 participants in last month’s attempt to break the World’s Largest Swim Lesson record at the Nikiski Pool are now waiting to see if… Continue reading

  • Jul 10, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Kenai plants community food forest

The starts for Kenai’s new community orchard, and soon-to-be food forest are in the ground. On June 25, staff from the City of Kenai’s Parks… Continue reading

  • Jul 10, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

DOT launches differential speed section of Seward Highway

Starting Monday, the right lane on a section of the Seward Highway between Anchorage and Kenai will legally become the slow lane.The Alaska Department of… Continue reading

Acuren fined $7000 for Kenai office violations

An oilfield support services company whose Kenai office was cited in 2014 for radiation safety violations has been issued a $7,000 fine by the federal… Continue reading

ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF JULY 2-3 AND THEREAFTER - In a Wednesday, June 22, 2016 photo, Sam Sheakley, left, and Fred Fulmer work on a 25-foot Raven totem pole at Harborview Elementary School in Juneau, Alaska. The 25-foot Raven pole is being designed by Nathan Jackson of Ketchikan and will be installed in front of Gastineau Elementary School when finished. It's one of two healing totems meant to acknowledge atrocities that took place on Douglas Island to the Aak'w Kwáan and T'aaku Kwáan, people who've lived in this area for thousands of years.  (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Healing history and ending the silence

Under the covered basketball court at Harborview Elementary School in downtown Juneau, a group of carvers has just started working on a Raven totem pole.… Continue reading

  • Jul 9, 2016
  • By LISA PHU
ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF JULY 2-3 AND THEREAFTER - In a Wednesday, June 22, 2016 photo, Sam Sheakley, left, and Fred Fulmer work on a 25-foot Raven totem pole at Harborview Elementary School in Juneau, Alaska. The 25-foot Raven pole is being designed by Nathan Jackson of Ketchikan and will be installed in front of Gastineau Elementary School when finished. It's one of two healing totems meant to acknowledge atrocities that took place on Douglas Island to the Aak'w Kwáan and T'aaku Kwáan, people who've lived in this area for thousands of years.  (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
Photo courtesy UAA Consortium Library In this 1975 photo, Kenai Peninsula College professor Boyd Shaffer holds an owl at the college in Soldotna, Alaska. Shaffer, who was known for his love of art and nature, died June 25 at 90.

Longtime KPC professor Boyd Shaffer dies at 90

The longest-tenured instructor at Kenai Peninsula College at time of his retirement in 2002, Boyd Shaffer once described himself this way: “I get started on… Continue reading

  • Jul 9, 2016
  • By CLARK FAIR
Photo courtesy UAA Consortium Library In this 1975 photo, Kenai Peninsula College professor Boyd Shaffer holds an owl at the college in Soldotna, Alaska. Shaffer, who was known for his love of art and nature, died June 25 at 90.
A peony for your thoughts

A peony for your thoughts

A honeybee busily flits between blooms at Cool Cache Farms in Nikiski on Friday. In the background, farm owners' Wayne and Patti Floyd's experimental dome-shaped… Continue reading

A peony for your thoughts
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A guide boat motors along the Kenai River upstream of the Sterling Highway Bridge in Soldotna, Alaska on Thursday, July 7, 2016.

Fish and Game opens Kenai late-run kings to bait

Anglers can use bait for king salmon in a section of the Kenai River starting Saturday at 12:01 a.m.The Alaska Department of Fish and Game… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A guide boat motors along the Kenai River upstream of the Sterling Highway Bridge in Soldotna, Alaska on Thursday, July 7, 2016.
A chart provided by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services shows the users of state-funded (AKHAP) and federally-funded (LIHEAP) heating assistance broken down by census areas.

Heating assistance cut from state budget

One casualty of this year’s state budget cuts is an aid program that assists low-income households with their winter heating bills. The Alaska Department of… Continue reading

A chart provided by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services shows the users of state-funded (AKHAP) and federally-funded (LIHEAP) heating assistance broken down by census areas.

Board considers ‘marijuana doggie bag’

Alaska’s Marijuana Control Board has turned down a proposal to allow the equivalent of a ‘marijuana bar’ in Alaska, but the idea isn’t dead yet.On… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Anglers line the banks of the Kenai River near the Donald E. Gilman River Center in Soldotna, Alaska on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Many reported good fishing for sockeye salmon that day in the river.

Despite better early king numbers, Kenai fishermen head for sockeye

Every square inch of shelf space is occupied in Ken’s Alaskan Tackle, and much of the walls, too. Pegboards covered in different types of fishing… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Anglers line the banks of the Kenai River near the Donald E. Gilman River Center in Soldotna, Alaska on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Many reported good fishing for sockeye salmon that day in the river.

Health care jobs see unexpected spike

Health care employment continues rising in the state, though economists are still unsure what precisely drives that growth to the levels observed.A state Bureau of… Continue reading

  • Jul 7, 2016
  • By DJ SUMMERS