Board of Education revises transportation, operating budgets

The Board of Education approved a revised FY17 Operating budget at its Monday meeting, including a transfer of $655,072 from the general fund into the… Continue reading

  • Jul 12, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Gov. Walker signs sweeping crime reform bill

Gov. Bill Walker organized the signing ceremony for Senate Bill 91, but Kara Nelson and Kris Sell seized the moment.After the speeches, Juneau Police Department… Continue reading

Troopers, Kenai police seize heroin, $23,000 in raid

Alaska State Troopers and the Kenai Police Department seized nearly half a pound of heroin and $23,000 in cash from a Kenai home in a… Continue reading

Borough residents debate ways to oppose annexation

Borough residents who oppose the city of Soldotna’s plan to annex are still wary of the city’s intentions and are looking for ways to raise… Continue reading

Accident closes Sterling Highway in Cooper Landing

Update, 4 p.m. Tuesday: A four-vehicle accident closed the Sterling Highway near Cooper Landing for about two and a half hours on Monday evening. Alaska… Continue reading

  • Jul 11, 2016
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Workers at Alaska Salmon Purchasers in Nikiski, Alaska sort fish from a setnet site Monday, July 11, 2016. The Kenai and East Forelands setnets opened for their first regular period Monday.

Kenai, East Forelands setnets open for first period

A skiff called the Santa Maria, flying a pirate flag, skidded into the Nikiski beach, grating to a heavy halt. The crew efficiently hauled the… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Workers at Alaska Salmon Purchasers in Nikiski, Alaska sort fish from a setnet site Monday, July 11, 2016. The Kenai and East Forelands setnets opened for their first regular period Monday.
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.