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Walker wants balky House to act on using Fund earnings

All eyes are on the House Finance Committee.The only legislative committee meeting late in the special session, it met for nearly seven hours on June… Continue reading

  • Jun 15, 2016
  • By ELWOOD BREHMER
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Kathleen Mize pulls out photographs from when she served as a nurse in Alaska and Calif. during World War II on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in Sterling, Alaska.

Biannual flights honor veterans

Bystanders lined the Kenai Municipal Airport sidewalks with reeling flags and raucous fanfare last month to welcome home three local veterans. They flew along with… Continue reading

  • Jun 14, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan
Photo by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion Kathleen Mize pulls out photographs from when she served as a nurse in Alaska and Calif. during World War II on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in Sterling, Alaska.
Photo: Lunch with Mom

Photo: Lunch with Mom

A mother moose and her calf graze in the green space near the intersection of Fidalgo Avenue and South Willow Street on Monday, June 13,… Continue reading

Photo: Lunch with Mom

Homer man accused of sexual abuse of a minor

A Homer man accused of sexual abuse of a minor led police on a foot chase before being arrested last week.Cim Joel Blair, 34, was… Continue reading

  • Jun 14, 2016
  • By MEGAN PACER and MICHAEL ARMSTRONG

House appears hostile to Permanent Fund bill

Members of the Alaska House Finance Committee continue to express uncertainty and hostility toward a measure that would use money from the earnings of the… Continue reading

Adult smoking generally declines, still higher among Alaska Natives

Smoking rates continue to decline in Alaska, according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.Between 1996 and 2013, the number of adult smokers… Continue reading

State to seek AMP waiver

Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development will soon ask the U.S. Department of Education to waive administration of the 2015-2016 Alaska Measures of Progress… Continue reading

  • Jun 12, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Smoke-free law dies during legislative session

The Kenai Peninsula along with the rest of Alaska will not collectively become smoke-free, at least this year. The “Take it Outside Act,” or SB1,… Continue reading

  • Jun 5, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

The Longest Day to raise funds for Alzheimer’s

Members of Alaska’s nine teams participating in the Alzheimer Associations’ 2016 The Longest Day Fundraiser will some have more time — 19 hours of daylight… Continue reading

  • Jun 13, 2016
  • By Kelly Sullivan

Legislature hits final week of special session

The Alaska Legislature is entering the final week of its 30-day special session with the biggest item of the year still unresolved.The ball is largely… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Fishermen on the Kenai River near the Russian River ferry cast for sockeye salmon on Sunday, June 12, 2016. The river opened for sockeye fishing at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, June 11.

Fish on

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  • Jun 13, 2016
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Fishermen on the Kenai River near the Russian River ferry cast for sockeye salmon on Sunday, June 12, 2016. The river opened for sockeye fishing at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, June 11.

Hospital examines plans for OB redesign

Central Peninsula Hospital is in the preliminary planning stages of a project that could expand its obstetrics department and bring a catheterization lab to the… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A flagger redirects traffic off the Kenai Spur Highway for a construction project at approximately Mile 10.2. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is replacing a fish passage culvert under the highway, which could close that section until as late as July 1.

Kenai Spur Highway blocked for construction at Coral Street

Traffic is being redirected from the Kenai Spur Highway in Kenai to avoid some construction in town.Workers contracted by the Alaska Department of Transportation and… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion A flagger redirects traffic off the Kenai Spur Highway for a construction project at approximately Mile 10.2. The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is replacing a fish passage culvert under the highway, which could close that section until as late as July 1.

Judge allows part of Kenai subsistence suit to proceed

The Ninilchik Traditional Council’s battle for a Kenai River subsistence gillnet will run into the 2016 salmon season, with a lawsuit over last year’s operational… Continue reading

  • Jun 13, 2016
  • By DJ SUMMERS
Mike Harris, the owner of Croy's Enterprises, works on some electrical fixtures at his facility near Soldotna, Alaska on Sunday, June 12, 2016. Harris was one of seven marijuana entrepreneurs on the Kenai Peninsula to gain state approval last week.

7 marijuana businesses on Kenai Peninsula get green light

The first seven marijuana entrepreneurs on the Kenai Peninsula received their state approvals on Thursday and Friday. The state Marijuana Control Board gave its stamp… Continue reading

Mike Harris, the owner of Croy's Enterprises, works on some electrical fixtures at his facility near Soldotna, Alaska on Sunday, June 12, 2016. Harris was one of seven marijuana entrepreneurs on the Kenai Peninsula to gain state approval last week.
Barbara McNinch (left) dances with Tony Doyle at the Kenai River Festival on Friday, June 10, 2016 in Soldotna Creek Park in Soldotna, Alaska. The festival, organized by the Kenai Watershed Forum, ended Sunday afternoon.

Stepping up to summer

Barbara McNinch (left) dances with Tony Doyle at the Kenai River Festival on Friday in Soldotna Creek Park in Soldotna. The festival, organized by the… Continue reading

  • Jun 12, 2016
Barbara McNinch (left) dances with Tony Doyle at the Kenai River Festival on Friday, June 10, 2016 in Soldotna Creek Park in Soldotna, Alaska. The festival, organized by the Kenai Watershed Forum, ended Sunday afternoon.

Proposal would move hospital service area south

Editor's note: This article has been updated to show that the proposed boundary change would include part of Ninilchik. A proposed ordinance before the Kenai… Continue reading

North Pole contractor credited for effort on public memorial

NORTH POLE, Alaska — Three concrete walls jut out of the dirt and shimmy across the ground like humongous eels.The walls on Doughchee Avenue off… Continue reading

  • Jun 11, 2016
  • By AMANDA BOHMAN
Michael Dominic pours two glasses of pink lemonade for a customer at his stand outside Charlotte's Cafe on Saturday, June 11 in Kenai.

Area kids thirsty for profit on Lemonade Day

Several local kids and teens went into business on Saturday, taking their seats behind a venerable symbol of young capitalistic gumption, the lemonade stand. Lemonade… Continue reading

Michael Dominic pours two glasses of pink lemonade for a customer at his stand outside Charlotte's Cafe on Saturday, June 11 in Kenai.
Photo courtesy Tesa Sturman Tesa Sturman of Kenai was crowned this year's Mrs. Alaska America at the 40th annual pageant June 4, 2016 at Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Sturman is the first contestant from Kenai to win the top title in the pageant's history.

Kenai woman crowned Mrs. Alaska America

For the first time in the 40-year history of the Mrs. Alaska-America Pageant, a woman from Kenai has taken the crown. Tesa Sturman, 35, won… Continue reading

Photo courtesy Tesa Sturman Tesa Sturman of Kenai was crowned this year's Mrs. Alaska America at the 40th annual pageant June 4, 2016 at Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Sturman is the first contestant from Kenai to win the top title in the pageant's history.